Trailer
Plot summary
Sitting in a home theater, Timon and Pumbaa rewind the first film to a point before its opening so they can tell how they met and how they came to live by Hakuna Matata. Timon is a meerkat and an outcast in his colony, where his mother Ma and his uncle Max live. Assigned to keep watch against the hyenas Shenzi, Banzai and Ed, he daydreams about a better life, and a hyena attack follows. Timon decides the colony is not for him and leaves. Rafiki, a mandrill, introduces him to Hakuna Matata and tells him to look beyond what he sees, which Timon takes literally and heads toward Pride Rock. On the way he meets Pumbaa, a warthog, and the two set out to find a perfect home.
Cast
- Jason Rudofskyas Flinchy (voice)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Lion King 1 1/2 (2004)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Roger Allers and Irene Mecchi, who directed and co-wrote the screenplay for The Lion King, consulted on this production, and according to Raymond it was Allers who came up with the Mystery Science Theater 3000 inspired framing of the film.
- The film's structure is inspired by Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, a tragicomedy that tells the story of Hamlet from the point of view of two minor characters.
- Elton John and Tim Rice returned to compose a new song, That's All I Need, which was based on The Warthog Rhapsody, a song deleted from the original film, with Nathan Lane, Ernie Sabella and Matthew Broderick reprising their original roles.
- On its first day of sales the film sold 1.5 million DVD copies, and in its first three days of release it generated about $55 million in sales revenue.
- By March 2004, six million DVD and VHS copies of the film had been sold in North America, and more than 30 percent of the title's sales were from the Latino market.
