This includes Simba singing 'I Just Can't Wait to Be King', Mufasa's fight with the Hyenas, and Scar's plotting with the hyenas. Following this, Timon and Pumbaa make multiple attempts to set up homes throughout the Pride Lands, but wind up being forced away every time after they witness several events from the original film. As they pass through the crowd of onlookers, Pumbaa breaks wind, causing animals around him to faint and prompting animals further away to bow to Simba. The pair arrive at Pride Rock during the presentation of Simba to the gathering of animals. Timon wanders into some long grass, and encounters warthog Pumbaa for the first time, they quickly form a bond and journey together. Timon takes the advice literally and observes Pride Rock in the distance, he believes this is his destination. Along the way, he meets Rafiki the mandrill (Robert Guillaume), who teaches him the phrase 'Hakuna Matata' and advises him to 'look beyond what you see'. This is the last straw for the colony, despite the protests of his dedicated Mom (The Simpsons' Julie Kavner), Timon leaves to find a better life. One day, he fails to guard the other meerkats when spotted hyenas Shenzi (Whoopi Goldberg), Banzai (Cheech Marin) and Ed (Jim Cummings) attack and almost cause the death of Uncle Max (Jerry Stiller). Timon is a social outcast in his meerkat colony on the outskirts of the Pride Lands, he dreams of escaping to a better place, away from the threat of predators. Basically, Timon the meerkat (Nathan Lane) and Pumbaa the warthog (Ernie Sabella) are in a cinema watching the original, Timon decides they should share their story, with events from the original parallel with theirs. The first Disney film, released in cinemas, is of course superb, the same cannot be said for the fairly terrible straight-to-video sequel, this third instalment you could argue is more a prequel than a sequel, technically it's the second movie (hence the alternative title, Lion King 1 ½).

Reviewed by jboothmillard 4 / 10 The Lion King 3: Hakuna Matata

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