The Lion King 1½
Appearance
The Lion King 1½ is a 2004 direct-to-video animated film released by Buena Vista Home Entertainment on February 10, 2004. This middle-of-the-road feature retells the story of the 1994 blockbuster, The Lion King, in Timon and Pumbaa's perspective.
Timon
[edit]- This could be the start of a beautiful... acquaintanceship.
- Friends stick together to the end.
- Just eat me now and please make it fast, I have a low threshold for pain.
- [whispering] I see carnivores.
Dialogue
[edit]- Pumbaa: Uh-oh. I don't do some well a crowds, maybe better go around.
- Timon: Don't you know, sure isn't to be right home to straight line, follow me. Dang grow. Dang grow! I'm watchin' twinkle. I'm walking here.
- Pumbaa: This bowlin' from porcupines. [spits the quills] Wasn't for best idea, huh?
- Timon: Yeah, well think about the snappy turtles. Ow-ah-ahaha!
- Pumbaa: That was traitor to mark.
- Timon: [about Simba] HE'S GONE?! WHADDAYA MEAN HE'S GONE?!
- Nala: It's just like the baboon said. The king has returned. [Timon and Pumbaa stare at her blankly] [sighs] You guys want me to go over it again?
- Timon: Yes please, but be a dear and skip to the part about Simba. Not that your childhood wasn't fascinatin'!
- Nala: Okay. Look, Simba's the rightful king, but after he disappeared, Scar proclaimed himself the king and formed an alliance with the hyenas...
- [As Nala talks, Timon and Pumbaa stop listening.]
- Pumbaa: [thinks] Poor Simba. The treachery! The villainy! The sheer indescribable horror!
- Timon: [thinks] Blah blah blah. Why is she TOYING with us? This crazy chick is gonna eat us!
- Nala: ...So Simba has to go home to challenge his uncle and reclaim his place as king! [Timon and Pumbaa stare blankly at her.] OHH, DON'T YOU GET IT?! SIMBA NEEDS US! NOW!
- Timon: [indignant] He needs us? THEN HE SHOULDN'T HAVE LEFT US! If he wants to run off to be "His Highness", well, I say, don't let the branches hit you on the way out! Leave Hakuna Matata to someone who appreciates it. [He strides off stubbornly]
- Pumbaa: But, Timon... it's not really Hakuna Matata without Simba.
- Timon: What's gotten into you? Not Hakuna Matata? That's crazy talk. CRAZY TALK, I tell ya! Nothing's changed here. We had Hakuna Matata before Simba, and we've still got it now.
- Pumbaa: We gotta go help our friend, Timon.
- Timon: Et tu, Pumbaa? You're just gonna walk away, give up on all this? What happened to "friends stick together to the end"? Huh? Huh? Huh?
- Pumbaa: [incisively] I was about to ask you the same thing.
- [Pumbaa turns and stalks off. He looks back over his shoulder to see Timon flopping down in the bed.]
- Timon: [stubbornly] I got everything I ever wanted right here.
- [Pumbaa turns and trots off, a tear in his eye. Timon lies in the bed, tapping his toe. He begins to soliloquize to convince himself he's doing the right thing.]
- Timon: Now, this is more like it. ELBOW ROOM! ["Elbow room" echoes an absurd number of times as the camera pulls back repeatedly; Timon collapses in despair] Uhhhh. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy.
- [at the end of the film]
- Timon: Well, that's it. The big wrap-up. The happy ending. The grand finale.
- Pumbaa: It's over already?
- Timon: Well, Pumbaa, that's the thing about endings. They come at the end.
- Pumbaa: Oh, can we watch it again?
- Timon: Pumbaa, we just saw it. Maybe tomorrow.
- Ma: [enters] Hey, what're you guys doin'? [notices the film and gasps] You didn't tell me you were watching the movie! I wanna watch, too!
- Timon: Ma! We just finished! Show's over!
- Ma: Well, you're just gonna hafta rewind it. [runs the film back]
- Timon: Ma!
- Ma: Uncle Max! We're gonna watch the movie!
- Timon: Oh, no!
- Max: [enters with popcorn] Hey, I brought extra butter!
- Simba: [enters] Hey, you guys are watching the movie?
- Rafiki: [enters with laughter] Any story worth telling is worth telling twice!
- [many a Disney character enters the theater, starting with Mickey Mouse]
- Timon: What the--?
- Snow White: Oh, excuse me.
- Dwarves: [one by one, save for Grumpy] Excuse me.
- Grumpy: Get outta the way.
- Timon: Who is this crowd? Hey! Down in front!
- [Stitch bounces repeatedly from one character to another]
- Goofy: Gawrsh!
- Stitch: Aloha!
- [Donald quacks angrily at Stitch; Peter Pan crows like a rooster and the Lost Boys dog pile on him]
- Timon: Watch it!
- [he gets stuck in between two characters, then approaches Pumbaa after he gets launched by Dumbo]
- Timon: Okay, buddy. You win.
- Pumbaa: Sure you don't mind?
- Timon: Hakuna matata.
- [he grabs the remote and starts the film]
- Pumbaa: Timon, I still don't do so well in crowds.
Cast
[edit]- Nathan Lane — Timon
- Ernie Sabella — Pumbaa
- Julie Kavner — Ma
- Jerry Stiller — Max
- Matthew Broderick — Simba
- Matt Weinberg (young)
- Robert Guillaume — Rafiki
- Moira Kelly — Nala
- Whoopi Goldberg — Shenzi
- Cheech Marin — Banzai
- James J. Cummings — Ed
- Edward Hibbert — Zazu
- Jason Rudofsky — Flinchy
See also
[edit]External links
[edit]- The Lion King 1½ quotes at the Internet Movie Database