With Christmas done and dusted for another year, Australian families are all asking one very important question. What can we do with the kids while they sweat through another Aussie summer holidays?
A good option is always the movies, nothing beats a cool cinema and a choc top, but given the rising cost of everything, I for one want to know a bit more about what we are seeing and if it will resonate with the kids.
Today I wanted to bring you a review of Disney’s latest release, Mufasa: The Lion King, but I wanted to bring it to you through the eyes of my girls. E aged 12 and P aged 10 take a deep dive into what they liked and didn’t like while breaking down the characters and story for us.
Mufasa: The Lion King is a prequel to Disney’s The Lion King and tells the origin story of the great King Mufasa. The lion who brought peace and the various herds of the pride lands together in a show of unity that would see him rise to be King.
All right kids, first up tell me your thoughts on the Mufasa story overall.
E:I really like the way that Mufasa was told. Rafiki is telling Simba’s daughter Kiara all about her grandfather to help her feel safe during a big thunderstorm. Rafiki takes us all the way back to when Mufasa was a cub, how he was lost and how he became king.
P:I too liked that it was like listening to someone tell a story. I never knew Scar (Taka) and Mufasa were not real brothers but they found each other when they were cubs. It was good to see them grow up and play together. Even when they were jealous of each other they stood up for one another and tried to make sure each other was ok.
E: Yeah, when Mufasa was lost it was sad but good that he found a family to help him out. The way Eshe helps out Mufasa teaching him the way of the lionesses was pretty awesome too. He could hunt just like them and that ended up helping everyone out.
P: The best lion was definitely the big white lion Kiros, he was actually scary and had the best song of the movie.
That’s a good point girls. Being it is a Disney movie, tell me what you thought about the songs and have you listened to any of them since we saw the movie?
P: The songs were mostly pretty good. Kiros definitely had the best and catchiest song, it was called Bye Bye. I’ve listened to it a couple of times on YouTube. I also really liked the song Mufasa and Sarabi sang to each other in the snow (Tell Me It’s You), I can’t remember what it is called though and haven’t listened to that one. I can just remember it being nice.
E:The songs were good, but I don’t really remember them after we left. Haven’t gone looking for them to listen to again either.
Ok, so tell us next, How was it watching something so lifelike and not an animated movie like the original Lion King?
E: Oh the graphics were so cool and life-like, almost like watching real lions on a documentary but these ones talked and sang. I especially liked the way they made the animals act like real life animals I have seen at the zoo. Lions rubbed on one another and there was an elephant stampede I thought was done really well.
The big question I guess to ask would be simply would you two go and see Mufasa: The Lion King in the cinemas again if we decided to go with someone else?
Both are a resounding yes!
Mufasa: The Lion King is a decent ride and while it lacks the gripping song list you want to sing long after the movie is done, I for one watched my kids enthralled the entire way through.
I wouldn’t say put it at the top of your school holiday list but don’t discard it either.
Mufasa: The Lion King is in cinemas now everywhere.
