Rhapsodies

Once again I am really scraping the barrel. But here we go… This week’s Rhapsody is the Warthog Rhapsody an unused song from Lion King   recycled as “That’s All I Need” in Lion King 1/2. I confess I’ve only seen little bits of this direct to video film and what I saw, other than a few neat musical numbers, did not impress me. As far as I can tell the idea behind this (other than let’s stretch this franchise as far as it will go was) Was the thought “Well since Lion King is our adaptation of Hamlet, let’s do our version of  Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead!” which lead to over of half an hour of Timon and Pumba bumbling around in the background of all of the scenes in Lion King. Needless to say it didn’t work for me is a bit of an understatement.

But as I said a few of the musical numbers are fun and this is no exception.

Enjoy.