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The Circle of Life reviews

Theme Park Insider readers offer their ratings and reviews for The Circle of Life, a movie in Future World - The Land at Epcot.

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Posted: January 31, 2010


NOTE: Although It features characters from the Lion King, This movie is more of a Discovery Channel Documentary-type Motion Picture film about Conservation and Saving the planet.

Playing in Epcot's Land pavilion at Walt Disney World, Circle of Life opened in the Harvest Theater on January 21, 1995, as the Walt Disney Co. looked to capitalize on the recent overwhelming success of its animated movie musical, The Lion King.

Circle of Life follows The Lion King's Timon and Pumbaa, as they dam local rivers to create a lake for their planned "Hakuna Matata Lakeside Village." Simba points out that their actions are robbing other animals downstream of the water they need to survive. Then he really rubs it in by telling Timon and Pumbaa that they're acting like a bunch of human beings.

Timon and Pumbaa learn the lesson and remove the dam, restoring the environment for all the downstream animals.

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32 votes, so far

This is an educational movie containing the "stars" of the Lion King movie. But don't get excited. While the attraction's purpose is good, its realization is rather poor. After a boring pre-show room and being confrontet with various environmental facts you enter the completely unthemed theater. The movie itself it quite ok. It tells you to care for your environment, while using some astonishing pictures alsongside the typical thundering musical score. Yet, it could have done a lot better by being a little more subtle. Overall, Lion King attractions are more than welcome, even with an educational wink. This one though really needs some work to be done to stay in the audience's mind longer than fifteen minutes. - Chris W.

Bit dull, but still in the spirit of epcot. - A. P.

Felt a bit like being in school, and not that many links to the Lion King. An air-conditioned theatre is a welcome break on a long hot summer's day. - Ben Price

Preachy and dated. Time for a refurb. - James Rao

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