Lion King ripped off this movie (spoilers obv)

Yeah, beacuse it has a Lion with a name that rhymes... Oh, and any film with a parent dying (LBT, Lion King, Bambi) is a rip off of the one before it. Infact which everone I like best is the original, it doesn't matter if it was the first one made - I think it's better, so it's the orginal, everything else remotly similar is a rip off. [/sarcasm]

It's amazing how easy it is to be accused of unoriginality and "ripping off" these days - all you need is one minor simularity.

The Lion King is an adaptation of Hamlet, so if anything it ripped off Shakespeare.

Witty closing remarks have been replaced by massive head trauma and severe hemorrhaging.

Actually, Treasure Planet took 10 years to make. Yes it was released in theaters after Titan AE. Deep Impact and Armageddon came out about the same time too. Pretty much the same tag line, an asteroid is coming to destroy earth. But that's about the only thing that's similar about it. Everything else is different. For awhile there though, it seemed like the movies that came out where basically the same thing but yet different, its like the folks in hollywood were just throwing at straws.

Disney hasn't ripped off anybody, they get the rights from other people to do the movies that they do. And on the description of Oliver and Company it says that it was inspired by Charles Dickens "Oliver Twist". That's totally different then ripping it off. Says it right there on the back of the movie. And isn't "annie" the same thing, but the main character is a girl, and not a boy? Just like a majority of all fairy tales have a princess in some sort of trouble and the prince or a guy has to come and save her. And you can't really blame all that on Disney. Though some people have tried to. They just didn't do the research.

Now as for Shakespeare, a lot of his stuff has been done, and remade or adapted into something else or a new twist. You know why these are done? Because the people who want to do that, actually like the person.

The Lion King didn't rip off The Land Before time either. Yes there are some similarities, but completely different story. One big differnce is: Simba runs away after his father was killed by his uncle, but he thought he's the one who got his father killed, so instead of facing the heard, he runs away. That's called running away from your problems. Then when his childhood friend, finds him, and has the cloud that looked like his father, he returns, finds out the truth and faces his problems head on, and takes his rightful place as the king.

Littlefoot...loses his mother. He's alone after the big earthquake. Is separated from his grandparents and continues his journey to the great valley in search of them. Yes he has friends along the way, with some guidance from his mother (through out the whole movie), and him and his new found friends face the big bad Sharptooth that killed his mother. Makes it to the great valley where he is reunited with his grandparents, and his friends are reunited with their families too. In this story, Littlefoot never gave up. He knew what he had to do and that's continue on, even though he lost someone he greatly loved.

@Bostimore Marychusetts: EXACTLY. This one I agree with. Dinosaur was very much a rip-off of The Land Before Time. Not in every detail, but still--a dinosaur movie with everyone on a great journey to land of paradise to escape all the desert/lava/etc., where different groups and types of dinosaurs have to learn to work together and herbivores=good while carnovaurs=bad. If the characters weren't mostly grown up, it would feel like a remake.


The Lion King is an adaptation of Hamlet combined with Disney's own production of Bambi. It also, admittedly, borrows a few elements from Kimba the White Lion. (The baboon, for instance is very very similar in each.) This does not make it a total rip-off, it still feels very new and original. And, I would submit, that considering every plot element of every movie has probably been done before somewhere, the feeling we get while watching that what we are seeing is new and exciting is the most important thing. If we watch a movie and feel we can predict it all because we've seen the plot before, that's bad. But if we feel we are seeing something new and we don't know where it's going and we're held in suspense and entertained, then we shouldn't call it a rip-off but enjoy it for what it is.