'The Lion King' Had The Perfect Villain Song. This Time, 'Be Prepared' For Less
We know it sounds sordid, but there's something missing in the 2019 version of Scar's bad-guy anthem — and it's the very thing that made the mustache-twirling original so iconic.
by Glen Weldon
Jul 17, 2019
3 minutes
I have seen the new The Lion King. Pop Culture Happy Hour is devoting a whole show to it this week, so I won't get into a full review here, but just know that, when it comes to one specific aspect of the new film — the one aspect about which I cared most keenly, most deeply, most intensely — the news is not senSAAYtional. It's anything but, in fact.
I refer here to "Be Prepared," the very
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