The Lion King - Family Review

Content Warnings

• Sexual Content

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  Two lions nuzzle one another and cavort around in a romantic manner. The female lion lays on her back and bats her eyes at the male as he stands over her in a suggestive position but kids won't notice as it is very discreet.

  During the scene where Simba, Timon, and Pumba go to sleep, Simba collapses on the edge of a cliff, causing a dust cloud. The cloud spells the word "SEX" for a very brief second. This can be found on the VHS and Laserdisc releases. Blink, and you'll miss it.

  In an abandoned storyboard, "The Madness of King Scar," Scar tries to seduce Nala. There are suggestive lyrics including "she's got those assets, feminine," and his desire to "create a host of little Scars."

• Violence

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  Scar throws fiery embers at Simba's face.

  Rafiki fights off the hyenas in the final battle, however this was done more for comedic effect.

  Scar hits Simba's mother when she objects to his cruel and irresponsible ruling, reminding him that he is nothing like Mufasa (Simba's father). She is unconscious for a moment.

  Scar stabs Mufasa in the paws with his claws then hurls him off a cliff, his body is later shown but there is no blood.

  Fed up with Scars unruly behaviour, Mafasa sighs and says "what am I going to do with him" and Zazu replies "he would make a rather handsome hearth rug, and just think whenever he's dirty you can hang him out and beat him"

  Hyenas crawl out from their dark, steaming boneyard to threaten young Simba, Nala, and Zazu. They stick Zazu in a lava pit in an effort to cook him (he rockets off with a smoking trail) and then lunge with snapping jaws at the scurrying cubs. Simba scratches a hyena's face in defense of Nala. Just before disaster strikes, Mufasa charges in and bats the hyenas violently about.

• Profanity

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  Zazu refers to the hyenas as "mangy, stupid poachers."

  During a song, Pumba nearly says "farted," but he is stopped by Timon who says "not in front of the kids!" But it is quite obvious what the word was going to be.

  Timone shouts "why do I always have to save your AHAAA!!" it is very obvious he should have said "Ass"

• Intense Scenes

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  Moderate for children under 8.

  Simba is thrown off the edge of a cliff, but grabs onto the edge, and is dangling over a forest fire, but doesn't fall.