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As you know, Walt Disney Pictures released the movie called The Lion King in 1994, but it has lukewarm reviews and was a flop at the box office. One of the biggest problems, was Simba the lion, was a bland rip off of Kimba the Lion, Bambi the deer, and Todd the fox from The Fox and the Hound. The main villian, Scar, voiced by James Avery, who played Uncle Phil in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and the Shredder from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series was problematic enough, he can act and do things, he is considered the worst villian in Disney animated film history. There is a meerkat character who is extremely offensive to Africans*, but he is annoying. Simba's love interest, Nala is also considered the worst love interest in Disney animated film history.** Well, Beauty and the Beast was the very best animated classic Disney has to offer until 2013, when they made a very successful critically acclaimed 3D animated adaptation to Don Quixote. I do admit I like the 2000 Dreamworks animated film, A Toy's Tale, which had audiences crying when a main character, a cowboy doll getting blown up by a evil teenager in the end, and the 2004 Don Bluth film adaptation of the Ballad of Mulan, released by Columbia Pictures. How would film history would like if The Lion King was critically acclaimed and was a blockbuster success?

* Timon, if he is written very identical to Jar Jar Binks from Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.
** Nala, if she is written very similar to Rose Tico from Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi.
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