Featuring the voices of Whoopie Goldberg, James Earl Jones, Matthew Broderick, Nathan Lane and Jeremy Irons, The Lion King was the culmination of Disney's musical animated movies of the 1990s.

Based on themes from Hamlet, The Lion King tells the story of a young lion cub whose evil uncle usurps his father's crown and lets hyenas overrun the kingdom. Dodging danger and befriending some oddball characters, the cub wanders until the day he's ready to return and take his rightful place as king.

The movie was nominated for 4 Academy Awards, and won two of them, for Best Original Score and Best Original Song. It also won the Golden Globe award for Best Comedy/Musical movie.

I didn't see this movie in the theatre, but the rest of my family did, and they all loved it, so I was really excited to see it when it came out on video. And of course, I loved it too! My younger brother and sister, who were 7 and 10 at the time, watched the video so many times that they could recite the words in time with the movie! It is still a movie that I love to watch.