Die Garde der Löwen

When I heard that Disney was doing another cartoon based on one of their best movies, I was excited. I'd heard a lot about the show, and decided to give it a chance. Even if I don't have cable, I have other ways of watching The Lion Guard. All the members of the Lion Guard are cute, being young and all, and the research for the show was well done. They use a lot of Swahili words in their speech. Perfectly appropriate considering the setting is in East Africa.

I don't claim The Lion Guard is better than the Lion King. I do claim that it's fun to watch if you wanted another spin-off of the Lion King. For that, it's worth watching the whole first season just to see how it all starts. I'd heard a lot of not-so-good things about Return of the Roar, so I started with the first episode of the show. And I wasn't disappointed. It's a nice little reunion with old friends.

Judge the show all you want about this cartoon that was purposely aimed at toddlers. But this is one of the greatest shows that I ever watched ever since my past few years.

The Lion Guard is one great fun show to ever watched that is literally from a TV channel called Disney Junior. You may think that Disney Junior has only cartoons about the usual cliche learning for babies but this one improved very well. Just like the other cartoon, My Little Pony Friendship is Magic or Bluey the storytelling in the cartoon is absolutely amazing. It even has to return the more returning characters Scar, Vitani, Kovu, Zira and so much more to count on. I also even like some of the new characters in the cartoon too. One example is Jasiri the because, for a female Hyena living only in the Outlands, she is such a happy and sassy-looking character which I am absolutely obsessed with. As for the episodes most of them are just fillers that are not very important parts of the show but as it absolutely progressed the show starts to become more interesting to enjoy because most of the episodes in Season 3 have a lot of callbacks from previous movies.

But despite all how great the story is. The show has so many plot holes which I don't understand like how Scar gotta his scar, too many musical scenes in each episode, and most importantly the show did not even have a proper fight scene which makes it very anticlimactic even though it's a Disney Junior Show.

It's not perfect but if you wanted to watch one Disney Junior show enjoy it. Then this show is best suggested to give a chance.

I regard the Lion King as not only my favorite Disney movie, but one of my favorite movies of all time. When I first heard about this show, I was skeptical about the idea of centering on Simba's son Kion. I've seen the first batch of episodes so far and you know what? I love it! Contains all the things that made the movie so successful: memorable characters, zippy music, and a well written story that has some deep themes as well. This one is no exception. It may be a kids show, but there's plenty for adults to enjoy here as well as it contains themes of environmental conservation and racial tolerance (more metaphorical as it was shown in Don Bluth's Land Before Time). The characters are well drawn both in appearance and personality wise as each has his/her own strengths and weaknesses whether in defense or story-wise. I even love the epic intro with a great African Choir singing, plus the way that characters say some Swahili words make this equivalent to what Roger Ebert said about the first movie that it becomes "a learning experience as well as entertainment". Thumbs (and paws) way up!

My 4 year old enjoys it. I think some of these reviews forget it's for young children

David Bythewood, its a kids show, nothing more,nothing less, you are seriously reading way too much into the show. I have a child of my own and he enjoys The Lion Guard and I think, if you have children, they won't be reading too far into it as you are right now. On another note, why does the show have to be based on lions and their actual behavior in society when it's a kids show? Do we need to portray the fact that KION would be eaten because the male pack lion eats their own male cubs! Or the fact that the entire pack is consisted of mating with their own family members. On top of the fact that lions hunt live prey. Why would they show that on a kids show? yes hippos are aggressive in real life but again, as a Kids show, there would be no need to show aggression. Kids don't want to see animals eating each other, animals being aggressive. Kids shows are to teach a lesson, to put them to bed, or to entertain depending on age. Hyenas are depicted as bad because in your so called favorite original lion king, they are bad and work with scar. The show is called lion guard and is based around kion and his friends. There is no need to have a backstory of how female hyenas stay back to raise their young. And as shown in the show not all hyenas are bad since kion made a friend with a female hyena.. by the way poombah is spelt Pumba.... simba obviously said not to have any other species other than lions in the lion guard because it's called the LION guard, but it is in no where racism considering kion create his group with different species of animals.... the music is of course never going to top the lion king but why does it need to? It is geared towards sound and easy words for little kids. It is on Disney JUNIOR.