Maybe I'm just jaded and cynical, but I can't imagine paying (let alone spending 2 hours watching) the new Lion King DVD. Do you all have kids?

Check your spelling, man... get it right... DI$NEY

What you pay the DVD for anyway?

Besides, it's a great film. You never read Hamlet?

I'm 25, have no kids and love many (but cetainly not all) Disney animated films. Jaded and cynical maybe, but you're no film lover if you don't have the patience or appreciation for Pinochio, Fantasia, or Snow White. They're not just cartoons or Disney movies, they're American film masterpieces; as important as Birth of a Nation, Citizen Kane, or Singin' in the Rain.

Deisney? that like Ricky Rouse?


I'm really just one of those sick interweb freaks that loves to freeze frame shots that have "SEX" spelled out in dust, upskit shots of Redheads who like bunnies and ministers popping wood. That's why I buy "Deisney" dvd's.

There is a vast difference between classic animation like Pinocchio, Dumbo, Fantasia, Snow White and formulaic fluff like Lion King and Little Mermaid.

I love the classics...but can't sit through the fluff.

I would agree they may be considered "masterpieces" and they certainly have their place in film history but I disagree w/ this comment. I would certainly consider myself a film lover but Fantasia puts me to sleep each and every time I see it.

I'm probably in the minority but I really don't like Di$ney cartoons.

now give me Looney Tunes and I'm a very happy person.

They certainly offer a good excuse to watch them and indeed purchase them when you have them in tow

But in all honesty i don't think you really need an excuse or too feel any kind of guilt whatever your age to enjoy them as i pretty much agree with what Pants has said.

You mean King Lear?

They only Disney animation film I own is Fantasia, only for The Night On Bald Mountain sequence. Disney / Pixar I enjoy, but I was never a fan of the mouse and co.

I love film, and a big part of film is animation. Some of that Disney stuff really is magical. "Sleeping Beauty", "Snow White", "Bambi", "Fantasia" and "Dumbo" are some of my favorite films of all time, in ANY genre.

I'm a Disney fan. The newer stuff is hit or miss with me. I thought "Beauty and the Beast" was great, and I really got a kick out of "Lilo and Stitch". But "Pocahantas" and some others leave me cold.

"Lion King" isn't my favorite by any stretch, but I think it's a good movie and it's really beautifully done. I'll definitely be picking it up, for myself, a 26 year old male with no children.

I don't think I have ever sat through and watched Lion King in its entirety, I can't stand the music numbers, that "a coon a ma ta ta" song is like fingernails on a chalk board for me, I remember liking Bambi though, I can't think of any others right now

I do have a daughter, but I enjoyed Disney (and other animated films) long before that. However, I will admit that I went through a ""I am 2 mature 4 cartoonz, d00d...they be for kidz!!!" stage when I was ages 13-16.

Don't have kids.... but will someday...

<--has 3 Disney DVDs

I'm 18, and grew up with these movies. Luckily, my girlfriend collects them, so i don't have to buy my own copies as of yet. My favs: Aladdin, Lion King, Little Mermaid, and Beauty and the Beast.

I also can't stand all the music in the recent Disney films - all that syrupy, samey Phil Collins/Celine Dion sounding stuff makes me jump for the mute button.

The most recent Disney movie I've seen is The Black Cauldron.

Oh, and I do have two kids.

Exactly. The only recent Disney animated film I enjoyed was The Emperor's New Groove. I hate musicals as well, so this may be why.

It's really true: Internet whiners will find reasons to bitch about anything!

I don't like most of them. Never was even big on them when I was a kid.

I've never really been a big fan either, but I do consider the Lion King and both Toy Story films worthy additions to the collection.

Disney animation peaked with their early masterpieces in the 1940s and has been on an unsteady decline ever since. Actually, that goes for the animation industry as a whole. I only own Snow White and Fantasia, may purchase Pinocchio and that will be it for Disney in my collection.

I have never been able to understand the exultation of The Lion King--it is one of the most mediocre animated features the Mouse House has ever made. Even Aladdin is far superior and it came out just a few years before.

i'm an 18 yr old who grew up on the Lion King and am certinly looking forward to my copy getting to my house.

I'm 20 and I really enjoy the Lion King, as well as all the other titles that have came out/are coming on the platinum title.

Besides, if you have a date over and she's not interested in watching Scarface or Fight Club you can pop in a Disney movie and she'll be surprised how sweet you are. (Then you can get in her pants.)

hey thanks for the advice

Since you asked... No, I can't stand Disney cartoons. Never have, not even as a kid.