The Lion King: The Walt Disney Signature Collection

Overview

This dazzling animated feature from the Walt Disney studio is a musical tale of a lion cub who must fight to claim his rightful place as king of the African jungle after his wicked uncle usurps the throne. Songs by Elton John and Tim Rice; music by Hans Zimmer.

Product Details

Release Date:	08/29/2017
UPC:	0786936853773
Original Release:	1994
Rating:	G
Source:	Walt Disney Video
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:28:00
Sales rank:	3,970

Special Features

[cc]; English SDH

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Matthew Broderick	Adult Simba,Actor
Jeremy Irons	Scar
James Earl Jones	Mufasa
Nathan Lane	Timon
Moira Kelly	Nala
Ernie Sabella	Pumbaa
Whoopi Goldberg	Shenzi
Cheech Marin	Banzai
Zoe Leader	Sarafina
Robert Guillaume	Rafiki
Rowan Atkinson	Zazu
Jonathan Taylor Thomas	Young Simba
Niketa Calame	Young Nala
Madge Sinclair	Sarabi
Jimmy Cummings	Ed,Other Voices
Joseph Williams	Simba (Singing)
Jason Weaver	Young Simba (Singing)
David McCharen	Other Voices
Phil Proctor	Other Voices
Cathy Cavadini	Other Voices
Judi M. Durand	Other Voices
Hans Zimmer	Composer
Elton John	Composer

Technical Credits

Linda Woolverton

Jonathan Roberts

Irene Mecchi

Roger Allers	Director
Rob Minkoff	Director
Linda Woolverton	Screenwriter
Jonathan Roberts	Screenwriter
Irene Mecchi	Screenwriter
Don Hahn	Producer
Thomas Schumacher	Executive Producer
Sarah McArthur	Executive Producer
Brian Chavanne	Casting
Jeff Dutton	Special Effects
Scott Santoro	Special Effects

Editorial Reviews

Arriving in theaters with a roar, The Lion King quickly became the ruler of Disney's vast jungle, far outgrossing any of the studio's previous releases (a whopping 312 million dollars domestically) and assuring itself a timeless legacy through its incarnation as one of the most popular Broadway musicals of all time. A fairly simple tale is told with sweeping visual brush strokes of verdant Africa, and an Oscar-winning score (by Hans Zimmer) and songs (by Elton John and Tim Rice) to match. It's noteworthy that The Lion King represents Disney's anomalous return to entirely non-human characters; whether this was key to its success or not is uncertain, but the studio did not try to duplicate this formula until it was basically forced to with Dinosaur in 2000. Because The Lion King hews fairly closely to Disney's usual patterns in all other respects, it's hard to pinpoint exactly why this film struck viewers so much more profoundly than others. It exists as a testament to clean, straightforward storytelling featuring proud heroes and hissable villains, as well as numerous lessons to be gleaned by its younger viewers. Even so, the film was not without controversy -- some critics and watchdog groups decried the fact that Scar's seedy hyenas, voiced by Whoopi Goldberg and Cheech Marin, were played too ethnically to come across as anything but vicious stereotypes of blacks and Latinos. Ultimately, however, concerns like this were lost in the multitude of accolades heaped on what was, at the time, Disney's most successful animated feature ever.