Brian Earl Spilner said:

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Also maybe it's just because I have YouTube premium and don't watch cable tv, but it seems like Disney wasn't marketing Mufasa particularly hard. Definitely nothing in the realm of Moana, Wicked or even Gladiator 2. I wonder if they knew it wasn't anywhere near the level of the original.

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I agree with that, as I still go to a lot of kid-based movies, and rarely saw the trailer other than at Inside out 2. It should have been the sort of thing that was all over Disney/ABC/ESPN for a long time.

You really think they would have learned their lesson with Lightyear about a prequel spinoff of a secondary character. As automatic as the "go see a Disney release at Christmas time" tradition has been for the last decade, it really seems to show that no fans felt the need for this movie to happen, but they made it anyways.

Went to see it. It was overall just OK. The story was ok, I did like how they handled the Scar origin story. However the plot suffered from a lot of "And then" this happened "and then" that happened, instead of all the elements being tied together.

As others have said, the music was not remotely to the Disney standard. Obviously it's unfair to hold it to the level of the first one, music wise, as it was full of bangers, but still would have thought the songs would have at least have been catchy. They felt like an after thought. With the amount of talented songwriters Disney hires and the quality of the music they've had in movies this past decade, it was just bizarre at how flat and not good the songs were.

"The Lion King" is a true animated musical. Big opening song, songs throughout that advance the plot, big closing number. Mufasa lacked that, they just threw in a few random songs that didn't advance the plot or add character development. Had they cut the music all together and done a better job of turning the "and thens" in the plot into "Therefores" it would have been way better.

My algorithm marketed it to me A LOT, but I also have a 4 year old who has been obsessed with the Lion King for the last year. My top 10 on Spotify wrapped were all Lion King songs. Even the worst designed online campaign would have found it's way onto my screens.

Saw it with the kids today. Overall, I really enjoyed it, but would agree that the songs sucked

After watching that movie: mufasa had it coming