Which one is better?

>>149007092 (OP)
What made Timon and Pumbaa so beloved? They are nowhere near as funny as Genie.

>>149007107
Dude what if a Disney cartoon said fart?

>>149007092 (OP)
1 1/2 is better

The Lion King 1 is Hamlet, The Lion King 2 is Romeo and Juliet, and The Lion King 1 1/2 is Rosenkranz and Guildenstern are Dead

>>149007092 (OP)
2 is better entirely thanks to He Lives in You.

>>149007092 (OP)
Lion King 2 has great music, but Lion King 1½ also does along with being funny as hell so it wins overall.

>>149007092 (OP)
The latter is far better. Lion King 2 is cheap shit.

>>149009024
But that song isn't originally from that movie.

>>149007092 (OP)
They're both good but Lion King 2 has a soft spot for me because it was one of my childhood movies.

Kiara deserved better

>>149007092 (OP)
1 is better, but 1/2 is more original.

1 -> Hamlet
2-> Romeo and Juliet
3 -> Somewhat original shitfest, but the story isn't that good

>>149008586
>>149010917
Oh so even 1 1/2 is not original that's lame

2 is the worst, fuck retconning i will never defend products with it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWlub8_C1T8

I've always had this fantasy of Timone helping me shave my balls ever since I was a little kid.

>>149007107
They had a tv show, Genie didn't.

>>149008586
>The Lion King 1 is Hamlet
Hamlet was a major influence, but you can also see some elements of Henry IV Parts 1 and 2. Pumbaa is very obviously based on Falstaff, for example.

>>149010859
Even a cut-down version is still amazing.

>>149007092 (OP)
Oh, well... Let's see... I don't think either are "good" per se but I can try to figure out which one is better. 2 is probably better in the sense of being taken seriously as a sequel, while the stuff about a splinter pride of exiled Scar loyalists is an obvious retcon, it's not exactly that bad. The plot of 2 does build on 1 and I do get the message but the whole thing feels kinda contrived and it could probably be revised into something better. 1/2 is a bit better in terms of quality and I'm not sure there was a much better way of doing the story. However, 1/2 being a parallel story to 1 and an overly comedic one makes it feel like a mockery of the original movie, I mean did we really want to find out the CYFTLT scene to be Timon's backfired attempt to keep Simba around? You also need to be pretty familiar with the original to understand it, not that 2 really works as a standalone movie either but all you needed to know there was the succession crisis, 1/2 straight up don't make any sense without the context of 1.

I guess the TLDR is; 2 not very good but works fine as a sequel and out of context, 1/2 technically better but seems like way too much of joke and can only work as a companion piece to the original.

Technically 2 wins?

>>149007107
Dynamic duos were popular back then

>>149011208
Were Timon and Pumbaa directly based on Ren and Stimpy?

>>149011206
>, I mean did we really want to find out the CYFTLT scene to be Timon's backfired attempt to keep Simba around
That one was obvious from the first movie

>>149007092 (OP)
I want to FUCK Timon's mama

>>149010859
What? Where's it from then?

>>149011035
Uh ohhhh

STINKY

>>149012261
she's a qt for sure

>>149013159
It was a cut song from the first film and later added to the musical.

>>149013159
>>149016421
It wasn't a cut song from the original movie. It was from the "Rhythm of the Pride Lands" album, a "music inspired by the movie" type of thing that had a bunch of new songs (and one song that was actually cut from the movie, "Warthog Rhapsody" which was later rewritten and used for 1 1/2). It is true some songs from the album were later repurposed for the Broadway musical, however.

>>149007092 (OP)
>an even better sequel (except in animation)
>a joke of a movie (literally)
Uncomparable.

>>149018292
Huh. I never knew

>>149010917
Too human.