Top 10 Reasons Why The Lion King Does Not Deserve the Praise It Gets
1The 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)
2It is a ripoff
3The characters are bland, generic and all-around cliche. Possibly too derivative of other animated movies
4Mufasa's death is nothing to cry over
5It is a boring movie
6The songs are annoying and overrated
7It spawned an awful new spin-off series, The Lion Guard
8There are way better movies than The Lion King
9It is anti-feminist
10Simba was a brat
11The Circle of Life is the protagonists' way of justifying killing and other bad acts.
12Its 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)
13It's for kids
14The Lion King inherited the flaws of all other animated movies and made them worse
15Pumbaa's fart jokes don't fit the "epic" tone of the film
16Scar is the most overrated villain ever
17There are better Disney movies
18The story wasn't very good
19The characters are not true to their real species
20It completely overshadows all other animated movies
21Simba was snooty
22It is fascist propaganda
23The story is everything but unique
24Stereotypical depiction of animals
25Timon is annoying
26Too dark and edgy for a G-rated Disney film about animals
27It glorifies bullying and discrimination
28Too many stereotypes about hyenas
29It is controversial
30The characters were pretty shallow
31Bunga is in it
32It attracts a lot of bad people into the fandom
33Unwanted sequels and spinoffs
34It has the most annoying comic-relief side characters ever