By Brooks Barnes Reporting from Los Angeles Mufasa has life in him after all. “Mufasa: The Lion King,” a photorealistic ... Amid Donald Trump’s re-entry to the White House and turmoil ...

Nonetheless, “Mufasa: The Lion King” seeks to provide answers to these and a number ... Other scenes situate the camera atop the lions’ backs so their shoulders sway sickeningly before your eyes.

Despite Jenkins’ valiant efforts to infuse the story with visual grace and thematic weight, the film ultimately feels like another Disney product designed more for franchise expansion than for storyte ...

Two lion brothers ... Despite this, Mufasa and Taka forge a strong brotherly bond as they grow up, guided by their loving mother Eshe. Trouble arises when a group of dangerous white lions led ...

Mufasa and Taka grow up together as brothers in the land of Milele. But, their happy existence is destroyed by King Kiros, the leader of a white lion pride, who kills Taka's parents and drives the ...

‘Mufasa: The Lion King‘Disney For “Mufasa,” MPC adopted ... The intricate subtleties and emotional expressiveness of the film’s lions were pushed to new levels. Digital tools for animal ...

Mufasa: The Lion King expands the lore of the beloved Disney classic, but seeing Mufasa's journey has made part of Simba's ...

It is important to remember that “The Lion King” is a loose adaptation ... getting us to where we need to – so as Mufasa and Taka grow up into lions voiced by Aaron Pierre and Kelvin Harriso ...

Barry Jenkins' highly-anticipated prequel Mufasa: The Lion King explores the backstory of ... is introduced to Mufasa's parents. The two lions are only in the story for a matter of minutes ...

But unlike many critics, I’m not ready to throw prequel “Mufasa: The Lion King” away just because ... but dissention between two lions that were, for all intents and purposes, brothers.

(The Lion King’s Scar-Mufasa-Simba drama is not far from fiction.) A Fraught Coexistence But the greatest threat to lions—to all wildlife—is posed by humans. Lions, despite their apex ...