{"id":26195,"date":"2017-09-01T00:12:22","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T04:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=26195"},"modified":"2017-08-29T02:46:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T06:46:23","slug":"the-lion-king-1994-signature-collection-blu-raydvddigital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/01\/the-lion-king-1994-signature-collection-blu-raydvddigital\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lion King (1994): Signature Collection [Blu-ray\/DVD\/Digital]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u201cThe Lion King\u201d is still one of the most entertaining movie going experiences of my life and one of the most moving animated films I\u2019ve ever seen. With the anticipation of the live action remake growing, Disney has granted fans a new release with their Signature Edition. This new edition packs in the DVD, a Digital copy, and of course the new Blu-Ray with changes that are interesting and more geared toward meticulous hardcore fans of the film more than anything. It\u2019s certainly worth a double or triple dip, especially if it\u2019s your favorite of the Disney animated library (and on your top ten), as it is mine.<\/p>\n

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The 1994 animated film hasn\u2019t lost a bit of its luster, even with the weak sequels and spin offs (the Broadway musical excluded, of course) and stands as a masterpiece of animation of any decade. Set in the African wilderness, we meet young Simba, a lion cub who is fated to take the throne for his father Mufasa, when he dies. Simba\u2019s rotten uncle Scar, who resents Mufasa\u2019s power, also hates that Simba is next in line for the throne and schemes with the villainous hyenas to orchestrate a plan to take over the kingdom. After killing Mufasa and tricking Simba in to believing he committed it, Simba runs away leaving his kingdom and family to fall prey to the corrupt Scar and his army of hyenas. Years later, fate once again comes knocking down his door when he meets with old friend Nala tells him that his kingdom is crumbling at the hands of Scar.<\/p>\n

With help from his father from beyond the grave, Simba returns to take his land back and embrace his role as the king. \u201cThe Lion King\u201d packs in a lot of fantasy and compelling drama within its run time. While it\u2019s mostly been embraced over the years as a kids\u2019 classic, it\u2019s also a mesmerizing tale teeming with murder, deception, surprises, and romance. \u201cThe Lion King\u201d is just a near perfect work of animation that unfolds such a riveting narrative, complimented by the excellent voice cast and fantastic soundtrack. Folks like Matthew Broderick, Jeremy Irons, Moira Kelly, and Nathan Lane are incredible, while Elton John lends his talents with memorable tunes like \u201cHakuna Matata,\u201d \u201cCan you Feel the Love Tonight?\u201d and \u201cCircle of Life,\u201d respectively.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Lion King\u201d always manages to suck me in and keep me watching until the very final scene, and it\u2019s worth re-watching over and over. The live action remake has a lot to measure up to.<\/p>\n

The bonus features for the Signature Release feature new content with some old content from the past releases to allow an interesting experience. There\u2019s a great audio commentary with Co-directors Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff, and producer Don Hahn, and Deleted & Alternate Scenes clocking in at thirteen minutes. It\u2019s the same collection we\u2019ve seen before, but still fun. There are four minutes of bloopers and outtakes, and the original song \u201cThe Morning Report.\u201d There\u2019s the Song Selection, which allows you to jump to your favorite song in the movie, or you can run all of the songs in a row without that dumb ol\u2019 movie to interrupt the festivities (I kid, of course). There\u2019s a great Sing-Along mode which feature subtitles for the songs allowing you to memorize them and or practice for your next drunken karaoke night out.<\/p>\n

With the redemption of the Digital HD Code, there are more bonus features that are not on the disc that are from previous editions. \u201cVisualizing A Villain\u201d is a three minute odd music video where dancers perform in sync to Scar\u2019s big musical number, \u201cThe Recording Sessions\u201d is a five minute interview with film\u2019s directors as they worked with the actors while they performed and tried capturing their likenesses for the movie. \u201cInside the Story Room\u201d is a great behind the scenes look at the filmmakers and animators working on certain sequences through storyboards. Finally, there\u2019s \u201cNathan and Matthew: The Extended Lion King Conversation\u201d is a seven minute discussion shot for the documentary \u201cPride of the Lion King,\u201d with producer Tom Schumacher, and \u201cThe Lion King\u201d stars Nathan Lane, and Matthew Broderick, all of whom sit and discuss the film in detail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe Lion King\u201d is still one of the most entertaining movie going experiences of my life and one of the most moving animated films I\u2019ve ever seen. With the anticipation of the live action remake growing, Disney has granted fans a new release with their Signature Edition. This new edition packs in the DVD, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[71,96,99,219,290,302,340,580,590,637,840,874],"class_list":["post-26195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collectors-den","category-movie-reviews","tag-adventure","tag-animals","tag-animation","tag-comedy","tag-disney","tag-drama","tag-family","tag-kids","tag-l","tag-masterpiece","tag-revenge","tag-romance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26197,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26195\/revisions\/26197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}