Top 10 Reasons Why The Lion King Does Not Deserve the Praise It Gets

The film contains stereotypical views that may be offensive to others, and went

The film contains stereotypical views that may be offensive to others, and went out of its way to completely demonize a species of real animal (spotted hyenas)

It is a ripoff

The characters are bland, generic and all-around cliche

Possibly too derivative of other animated movies

Mufasa's death is nothing to cry over

It is a boring movie

The songs are annoying and overrated

It spawned an awful new spin-off series, The Lion Guard

There are way better movies than The Lion King

It is anti-feminist

Simba was a brat

The Circle of Life is the protagonists' way of justifying killing and other bad acts.

Its success is completely unfair to other movies, and people treat other movies

Its success is completely unfair to other movies, and people treat other movies like trash, especially if they're less successful as The Lion King (or "not as good" as the fans say)

It's for kids

The Lion King inherited the flaws of all other animated movies and made them worse

Pumbaa's fart jokes don't fit the "epic" tone of the film

Scar is the most overrated villain ever

There are better Disney movies

The story wasn't very good

The characters are not true to their real species

It completely overshadows all other animated movies

Simba was snooty

It is fascist propaganda

The story is everything but unique

Stereotypical depiction of animals

Timon is annoying

Too dark and edgy for a G-rated Disney film about animals

It glorifies bullying and discrimination

Too many stereotypes about hyenas

It is controversial

The characters were pretty shallow

Bunga is in it

It attracts a lot of bad people into the fandom

Unwanted sequels and spinoffs

It has the most annoying comic-relief side characters ever

It contains sexual scenes