Cheech Marin, Edward Hibbert, Ernie Sabella

The Lion King 1½ is an ingenious sequel that retells the original film's story from the perspective of best pals Timon the meerkat (voiced by Nathan Lane) and Pumbaa the warthog (Ernie Sabella)...( read more  read more... ). Anyone who has wondered how this odd couple met will find out here, beginning with Timon's flight from home following disgrace and his chance encounter with the sweet but lonely Pumbaa. With the arrival of young Simba (Shaun Flemming), The Lion King's familiar tale is reborn via a fresh angle, fleshed out by returning characters Rafiki the wise monkey (Robert Guillaume), Shenzi (Whoopi Goldberg), and Simba's love interest, Nala (Moira Kelly). While the retooled narrative proves a novel experience, The Lion King 1½ is really a vehicle for voice actors Lane and Sabella, whose comic performances are shamelessly, broadly funny. Matthew Broderick, Julie Kavner, and Jerry Stiller are also in the vocal cast. --Tom Keogh

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G, 77 min.

Directed by: Bradley Raymond

Release Date: February 10, 2004

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  • November 9, 2008
    Watched it for fun in class oneday... awful I couldn't how bad it was.
  • May 5, 2008
    i see that the whole idea of lion king 1½ is quite distinctive...we can rewatch the first Lion King from a different perspective-which is a good scheme...but overall, this is a perfect time wasting movie couse it's not literally entertaining and after you watch this, you'd be lef...( read more)t with nothing but saying, 'what the hell was that?' it's just like disney had nothing better to do and create such movie during break time, instead...better not do anything like this yet again...
  • February 3, 2008
    Pending Review...

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  • October 1, 2007
    Umm yeah I think they should have stopped after the 2nd one but nice try though had some funny parts.
  • August 5, 2007
    My least favorite of the Lion King films, but it was still good.
  • November 21, 2009
    Being taken behind the scenes is way more humorous than on-the-scene takes.
  • November 9, 2009
    it was kool i luved it. man it was funny and made me rcap everything from the lion king.
  • November 6, 2009
    i looooooovvvvee this movie
  • November 3, 2009
    very interesting for the whole family
  • October 24, 2009
    The lion king r 1 of the best movies ever.

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