What the corpus says about The Lion King (1994)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Lion King (1994) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about The Lion King (1994) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:16:46 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Mulan ↔ The Lion King · contrast · Amanda says Mulan did not stay with her like The Lion King, partly due to age and her Elton John fandom. · "it just didn't stay with me the way that, um, the Lion King did, but I think that's because of age and also because I'm like the world's number one Elton John fan."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 1:08:36 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Aladdin (live action remake) ↔ The Lion King · contrast · Amanda says the live action Aladdin was off-putting because the sex was on the main text, unlike the original's subtext. · "the thing that made the live action Aladdin so weirdly off putting was that the sex was just on Maine. It was just out there."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:52:38 · Mallory Rubin (0.85)] Mulan ↔ The Lion King · verdict · Mallory ranks 'I'll Make a Man Out of You' first and Lion King's 'I Just Can't Wait to Be King' second in her Disney song top five. · "number one, I'll make a man out of you. Number two, I just can't wait to be king."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 1:08:25 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] The Lion King ↔ Elton John · craft · Amanda says Elton John's career is the master class in turning sex into subtext. · "if there's anybody that knows how to put, uh, put, uh, turn sex into subtext, it's Elton John's entire career."
[pairs] The Lion King ↔ Mulan · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 1:07:51 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] The Lion King (1994 animated) · fun · Amanda notes 'SEX' famously flashes across the screen in the original Lion King, and jokes about the love song playing while lions frolic. · "I just X literally flashes across the screen in the original Lion King."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:54:33 · unknown (0.30)] Mulan ↔ Robin Hood · programming · A speaker (likely Sean or Amanda, unclear) says their favorite Disney songs are Roger Miller's from Robin Hood. · "my all of my favorite Disney songs are from Robin Hood. They're all written by Roger Miller."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 1:10:03 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] The Little Mermaid (upcoming live action remake) ↔ Aladdin (live action remake) · theme · Jason and Amanda debate whether the horniness in Disney remakes is a bug or a feature, with Amanda saying the Little Mermaid's real problem is its motivation, giving up her voice to land a guy. · "the little mermaid is ultimately like about Ariel just like giving up her voice and many other things in order to be able to fuck a dude"
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:17:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Mulan ↔ Beauty and the Beast · lineage · Sean places Mulan at the end of the 90s Disney peak run that included Beauty and the Beast, Little Mermaid, Aladdin, and The Lion King. · "it is really kind of at the end of the peak of that 90s Disney run with Beauty and the Beast and the Little Mermaid and Aladdin and the Lion King and Mulan."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:26:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Mulan ⇒ Mulan (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says the remake is what happens when filmmakers do not know what is good about the original. · "I think Mulan is kind of what happens when you don't really know what's good about your movie."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:21:31 · Mallory Rubin (0.90)] Mulan ↔ Mulan · theme · Mallory says making Mulan magical undercuts the story's point that her ordinary self is good enough. · "I was not a fan at all of turning Mulan into a, in essence, magical superhero"
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:17:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Mulan ↔ Aladdin · craft · Sean says Eddie Murphy's Mushu works for adults like Robin Williams's genie did. · "the same way that Robin Williams might have appealed to adults as the genie, you get, you get some Eddie Murphy in this movie."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:20:32 · Mallory Rubin (0.90)] Mulan ↔ Mulan · craft · Mallory says losing the songs removes the efficient storytelling and character bonding the music provided. · "in the film, it is such an efficient way to move the story forward. It helps with the characters."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:41:07 · Jason Concepcion (0.80)] Mulan ↔ Mulan · craft · Jason says the 2020 version replaces advising characters with ancestral words on the sword, so Mulan is guided by the past not a person. · "Mulan, in this tale, is guided by the past, is guided by the words of her family"
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[speaker] Mallory Rubin · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · Devoted to the Friday Night Lights show and cares most about its marriage, character work and Texas setting. Loves a high school football film, small-town Texas and Billy Bob; a sucker for Kyle Chandler, Tammy and Eric. Can't stand the film leaving Sharon unused. · stances: The TV show can't be matched, but that does not slight the film; Coach Taylor's speeches beat Coach Gaines's; The film needed a Gaines marriage sex scene; The reboot must stay in Texas; Cruise would make a deranged, mesmerizing Gaines
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with The Lion King (1994); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Lion King (1994) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.