The Lion King 1½ (2004) (V)

User Rating:

6.5/10   

Director:

Bradley Raymond

Writers:

Tom Rogers (screenplay) and
Roger Allers (additional screenplay material)
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Release Date:

10 February 2004 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Comedy | Family | Adventure

Tagline:

You don't know the ½ of it!

Plot:

Timon the meerkat and Pumbaa the warthog retell the story of The Lion King, from their own unique perspective.

Plot Keywords:

Lion | Sequel | Mother Son Relationship | Urination | Sequel With Unusual Number

Awards:

6 wins & 10 nominations

Cast

Nathan Lane	...	Timon (voice)
Ernie Sabella	...	Pumbaa (voice)
Julie Kavner	...	Mom (voice)
Jerry Stiller	...	Uncle Max (voice)
Matthew Broderick	...	Simba (voice)
Robert Guillaume	...	Rafiki (voice)
Moira Kelly	...	Nala (voice)
Whoopi Goldberg	...	Shenzi the Hyena (voice)
Cheech Marin	...	Banzai (voice)
Jim Cummings	...	Ed (voice)
Edward Hibbert	...	Zazu (voice)
Jason Rudofsky	...	Flinchy (voice)
Matt Weinberg	...	Young Simba (voice)
Jeff Bennett	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Corey Burton	...	Grumpy, Additional Voices (voice)
Cam Clarke	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Bill Farmer	...	Goofy (voice)
Shaun Fleming	...	The Lost Boys / Additional Voices (voice)
Carolyn Gardner	...	Snow White (voice)
Bob Joles	...	Sneezy (voice)
Tress MacNeille	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Alex Manugian	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Del Roy	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Chris Sanders	...	Experiment 626 Stitch (voice)
Kevin Schon	...	Happy, Additional Voices (voice)
Blayne Weaver	...	Peter Pan (voice)
Andrea Wolfson	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Tony Anselmo	...	Donald Duck (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Wayne Allwine	...	Mickey Mouse (voice)
Cherie Christmas	...	Herself (archive footage)
Henrik Koefoed	...	Timon (voice: Danish Version)
Mary Beth Roe	...	Herself (archive footage)
Frank Welker	...	Animal Voice Effects (voice) (uncredited)

Directed by
Bradley Raymond

Writing credits
Tom Rogers		(screenplay)
Roger Allers		additional screenplay material
Irene Mecchi		additional screenplay material
Raymond Singer		uncredited
Evan Spiliotopoulos		additional screenplay material

Produced by
George A. Mendoza	....	producer
Michael Paxton	....	associate producer
Jason VanBorssum	....	producer (sequence "Meerkat Rhapsody")

Original Music by
Don Harper

Film Editing by
Joyce Arrastia

Production Design by
Dennis Greco

Art Direction by
James Gallego

Production Management
Bill Bloom	....	production manager
Mark Bollinger	....	post-production supervisor
Greg Chalekian	....	production manager: "Meerkat Rhapsody" sequence
Dan Forster	....	production manager
Charles Kaitz	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Pieter Lommerse	....	assistant unit director
Ryan O'Loughlin	....	unit director

Art Department
Viki Anderson	....	storyboard artist
Keith Baxter	....	storyboard artist
William Dely	....	background paintings
Nicola Flynn	....	clean-up animation supervisor
Kevin Gollaher	....	storyboard artist
Mike Inman	....	key background painter
Brian Kindregan	....	storyboard artist
Robert Lence	....	storyboard artist
Toby Shelton	....	storyboard artist
Lajos Kamocsay	....	CGI lead (uncredited)

Sound Department
Joseph Adorisio II	....	isdn recordist
Ronald Eng	....	supervising sound editor
Roger Fearing	....	assistant sound editor
Tammy Fearing	....	supervising dialogue & adr editor
Erik Flockoi	....	sound recordist
Dana LeBlanc Frankley	....	assistant sound editor (as Dana LeBlanc)
Chuck Michael	....	sound editor
Terry O'Bright	....	sound re-recording mixer
Willard Overstreet	....	foley supervisor
Keith Rogers	....	sound re-recording mixer
Carlos Sotolongo	....	adr mixer
Carlos Sotolongo	....	original dialogue mixer
Steve Tushar	....	sound editor
Larry Winer	....	adr mixer

Special Effects by
Russell Heyman	....	special effects

Visual Effects by
Ben Aickin	....	digital compositor
Simon Alberry	....	CGI animator
Andrew Coates	....	lead compositor
Andrew Coates	....	scene planner
Mark Evans	....	lead compositor
Mark Evans	....	scene planner
Kris Gardiner	....	scanning supervisor
David M. Kcenich	....	visual effects
Andrew Kimberley	....	digital artist
Elias Macute	....	lead compositor
Elias Macute	....	scene planner
David 'Joey' Mildenberger	....	visual effects
Glo Minaya	....	technical director
D.J. Nicke	....	visual effects animator
Christine O'Connor	....	compositor
Jeff Topping	....	effects animator
Gary Sole	....	special effects animator (uncredited)

Animation Department
Olivier Adam	....	layout director
Tony Ambrose	....	inbetween artist
Debra Armstrong	....	character key
Richard Bailey	....	assistant animator
Bob Baxter	....	supervising animator: "Pumbaa", "Simba" and "Hyenas"
Carol Berke	....	color stylist
Matt Boug	....	inbetween artist
Russell Calabrese	....	animation director
Michael Cedeno	....	animator
Eddie Choo	....	clean-up artist
Noel Cleary	....	senior animator
Kevin Compty	....	clean-up artist (as Kevin Comty)
David Cook	....	inbetween artist
Tony Davis	....	clean-up artist
Stephen Deane	....	animator
Manny A. DeGuzman	....	senior clean-up artist
Bernard Derriman	....	senior animator
Donna Dubuc-Curtis	....	clean-up inbetween artist
Peter Eastment	....	clean-up artist
Robert Fox	....	animator
Kayn Garcia	....	inbetween animator
Ian Harrowell	....	senior animator
Kris Heller	....	assistant animator
Lianne Hughes	....	supervising animator: "Timon", "Mom" and "Max"
Mike Inman	....	background painter
Arlan Jewell	....	layout artist
Anna Jukic	....	clean-up artist
Hiromi Kakinuma	....	animator
Charlie Lee	....	animator
Pierre Lorenzi	....	background artist
Dave Mah	....	animator
Rod Millichamp	....	clean-up artist
Patrick Muylkens	....	background artist
Terry O'Toole	....	clean-up character lead
Michael Pattison	....	inbetween animation supervisor
Scott T. Petersen	....	animator
John Power	....	animator
Robb Pratt	....	animator
Steve A. Santillan	....	background artist
Toby Schwarz	....	animator (as Tobias Schwarz)
Alexs Stadermann	....	supervising animator: "Timon" and "Rafiki"
Jocelyn Sy	....	animator
Rizaldy Valencia	....	animator
Florian Wagner	....	animator
Nadine Wagner-Westerbarkey	....	animator
Tania Walker	....	inbetween artist
Larry Whitaker	....	animation director: "Meerkat Rhapsody" sequence
Kevin Wotton	....	animator
Marco Zanoni	....	animator
Nicole Zarubin	....	clean-up character lead

Casting Department
Daniel J. Soulsby	....	casting coordinator
David Wright	....	casting

Editorial Department
Jennifer Dolce	....	second editor
Nick Kenway	....	production editor
Vartan Nazarian	....	associate editor
Ken Poteat	....	post-production coordinator
John Damien Ryan	....	assistant editor
Timothy Vila	....	assistant editor

Music Department
Steve Dierkens	....	music recordist
Martin Erskine	....	music arranger: songs
Martin Erskine	....	orchestrator: songs
Don Harper	....	conductor
Clint W. Heidorn	....	music coordinator
Jason Henkel	....	music administrator
Dave Metzger	....	orchestrator
Kimberly Oliver	....	music supervisor
Gregory Prechel	....	orchestrator
Booker White	....	music preparation
Jason Arnold	....	music editor (uncredited)

Other crew
Carla Arcuri	....	production coordinator
Allison Cain	....	production coordinator
Kris Gardiner	....	digital checker
Lucinda Glenn	....	production coordinator
Wendy Guin	....	production secretary
Jennifer Honey	....	production coordinator
Danielle Legovich	....	production coordinator
Kip Lewis	....	production coordinator
Marilyn Munro	....	production coordinator
Christine O'Connor	....	scene planner
Gary L. Page	....	technical director
Todd Popp	....	production coordinator
Kirk Shalosky	....	production accountant

Production Companies

• DisneyToon Studios
• Walt Disney Animation Australia
• Walt Disney Television Animation

Distributors

• Buena Vista Home Entertainment (2004) (Brazil) (DVD)
• Buena Vista Home Entertainment (2004) (Brazil) (VHS)
• Buena Vista Home Entertainment (2004) (Japan) (DVD)
• Buena Vista Home Video
• Gativideo (Argentina) (DVD)
• Gativideo (Argentina) (VHS)
• Walt Disney Home Video

Also Known As:

Hakuna Matata (USA) (working title)
The Lion King 1 1/2 (USA) (alternative spelling)
The Lion King 1 1/2: Hakuna Matata (USA) (working title)
The Lion King 3 (Australia) (DVD title)

Runtime:

77 min

Country:

Australia | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital

Certification:

Thailand:G | Brazil:Livre | Argentina:Atp | Australia:G | Canada:G | Hong Kong:I | Japan:U | Netherlands:AL | Singapore:G | South Korea:All | Sweden:Btl | UK:U | USA:G | Greece:K

Company:

DisneyToon Studios

Trivia:

The characters (from not in the movie) that show up in the end are (not in order): Mickey, Donald, Goofy, Stitch, Pocahontas, Peter Pan, Tinkerbell, the Lost Boys, Aladdin, Jasmine, the Genie, Quasimodo, the gargoyles Hugo, Victor, and Lavern, Terk, Baloo, Mowgli, Snow White, all seven Dwarfs, Lady, the Tramp, a hippo from "Fantasia", Belle, the Beast, Mrs. Potts and Chip, Dumbo, Flora, Fauna,and Merriweather from "Sleeping Beauty", Brer Bear, the Mad Hatter, and the March Hare.

Goofs:

Continuity: At their first home by the water hole, Pumbaa hands Timon a drink in a coconut shell with a straw and umbrella. As Pumbaa starts to leave in the next shot, the straw is gone, yet Timon seems to be holding and drinking through it. In the following shot, the straw is back.

Quotes:

Mom: Max, Timon's out there chasing metaphors! I gotta go find him!
Uncle Max: ARE YOU NUTS?
Mom: [dryly, to Rafiki] Nice to have a supportive family, isn't it?

Movie Connections:

References Sleeping Beauty (1959)

Soundtrack:

Hawaiian War Chant

Downright not awful!

This is a straight-to-video movie, so it should go without saying that it's not going to rival the first Lion King, but that said, this was downright good.

My kids loved this, but that's a given, they love anything that's a cartoon. The big shock was that *I* liked it too, it was laugh out loud funny at some parts (even the fart jokes*), had lots of rather creative tie-ins with the first movie, and even some jokes that you had to be older to understand (but without being risqué like in Shrek ["do you think he's compensating for something?"]).

A special note on the fart jokes, I was surprised to find that none of the jokes were just toilet noises (in fact there were almost no noises/imagery at all, the references were actually rather subtle), they actually had a setup/punchline/etc, and were almost in good taste. I'd like my kids to think that there's more to humor than going to the bathroom, and this movie is fine in those regards.

Hmm what else? The music was so-so, not nearly as creative as in the first or second movie, but plenty of fun for the kids. No painfully corny moments, which was a blessing for me. A little action but nothing too scary (the Secret of NIMH gave my kids nightmares, not sure a G rating was appropriate for that one...)

All in all I'd say this is a great movie for kids of any age, one that's 100% safe to let them watch (I try not to be overly sensitive but I've had to jump up and turn off the TV during a few movies that were less kid-appropriate than expected) - but you're safe to leave the room during this one. I'd say stick around anyway though, you might find that you enjoy it too :)