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| | WashingtonPost.com: 'The Lion King' |
 | | Walt Disney's "The Lion King" is an impressive, almost daunting achievement, spectacular in a manner that has nearly become commonplace with Disney's feature-length animations. |
 | | Make no mistake, though: There is nothing commonplace about "The Lion King." Of the 32 animated films Disney has produced, this story of a young African lion's search for identity is not only more mature in its themes, it is also the darkest and the most intense. |
 | | When the adorable king-to-be asks for clarification -- "But Daddy, don't we eat antelopes?" -- Mufasa waxes cosmic, explaining that, yes, the lions eat the antelopes, but when they die their bodies turn into grass and, in turn, the antelopes eat the grass and the whole thing is just one great big circle of life. |
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