The Lion King 1½
Movie • 2004 • Animation
ReportTimon the meerkat and Pumbaa the warthog are best pals and the unsung heroes of the African savanna. This prequel to the smash Disney animated adventure takes you back -- way back -- before Simba's adventure began. You'll find out all about Timon and Pumbaa and tag along as they search for the perfect home and attempt to raise a rambunctious lion cub.
This movie contains 7 potentially triggering events.
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Timon believes he is being stalked by a wild dangerous animal in the grass, revealed to be Pumbaa after a brief chase.
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Is there domestic violence?
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Is someone gaslighted?
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The plot point in the original of Simba being gaslit by Scar is not referenced.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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No alcohol is used, but a snail slurping contest referencing a shot game is played.
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Many bugs and snails die.
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Are animals abused?
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Mild animal violence but not instigated by humans. Hyenas torment a colony of meerkats without intending to eat them.
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Is there a dead animal?
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The Elephant Graveyard is full of long hollowed animal carcasses. Characters hide in the eye sockets of an elephant skull.
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Does a cat die?
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Scar is seen falling before his demise as in the first movie, but the actual death is offscreen. Mufasa's death is only implied.
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Are there spiders?
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Significantly less realistic and more cartoony than any other bugs in the film.
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Are there bugs?
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As Timon and Pumbaa, the protagonists, are notorious bug eaters, bugs are everywhere in the movie and often squashed/eaten for gags. In the sing-along moment a ladybug is launched towards the screen. Timon is attacked and stung by bees. A large flock of butterflies surround Simba and Nala briefly. A brief gag with cartoonish anthropomorphic spiders.
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Timon gets hugged too tight by his mother and mentions not being able to breathe. It's portrayed in a very lighthearted manner
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Is someone crushed to death?
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tunnels collapse but no clear deaths from being crushed
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played for laughs, background characters pass out after pumbaa farts
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Timon is missing a few teeth in one shot after being swarmed by bees.
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Timon's mother deliberately jumps onto Rafiki's toes, aftermath is not seen.
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Is someone tortured?
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Uncle Max is attacked by hyenas and cartoonishly mutilated (missing hair, etc.), then dropped into a tunnel.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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No "deaths" from falling, but the hyenas are defeated by being dropped into a tunnel trap, and Scar is tossed off Pride Rock, as he is in the first movie, before he is confronted and killed completely offscreen.
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Timon has a black eye in a very brief scene.
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There is no bedbugs depicted, but bedbugs are brought up many times.
Most nights they go to bed the say a changed version of the child's rhyme people say at night. - "Good night, sleep tight, dream of bedbugs tonight"
Most nights they go to bed the say a changed version of the child's rhyme people say at night. - "Good night, sleep tight, dream of bedbugs tonight"
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Mufasa's death happens in this movie as it takes place at the same time as The Lion King, but it is not shown.
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Mufasa's "ghost" begins taking form in one shot in this movie, but as in the original he is not hostile.
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Is there farting?
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Numerous depictions of Pumba farting
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Does someone spit?
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Pumbaa's flatulence is set off in a crowd of animals, causing many to pass out.
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Offscreen biting sounds from a hyena attack, but no death or serious injury.
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Are needles/syringes used?
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Timon is pricked by several porcupine quills and wails in pain while Pumbaa removes them with his teeth. Not syringes but an equivalency that bothered me as a child when I had this phobia.
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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Simba wakes Timon and Pumbaa at night about a nightmare heavily implied to be about his father's death. They comfort him and sleep together afterwards.
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Yes. A movie is rewinded and fast forwarded very rapidly in both the beginning and end of the film.
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Movie begins with Timon and Pumbaa watching the original Lion King. During the film they frequently pause to comment and take breaks. Other Lion King and Disney characters show up to rewatch the movie at the end.
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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Like in the first movie, Timon does drag in a hula dress to perform a distraction, but here, the joke being at his expense is more deliberate when it is commented on by his elderly uncle.
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Are there fat jokes?
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Timon elaborates to Pumbaa that being called fat is a compliment for a pig.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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No ridicule by characters, but Timon cries as an intended punchline.
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Is someone homeless?
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Not homeless by conventional human metrics, but the two are both wandering, searching for a home through the first act, culminating when both characters reveal they never had a "home" or friend before each other.
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Violence
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characters fall down a waterfall but aren’t seriously hurt
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