This movie was possibly the worst I've ever seen. Don't get me wrong, the entertainment factor was great, but it sucked nonetheless. It was dubbed from Italian, so don't expect the animation to be Pixar quality. The songs were disgustingly bad, the manner in which Leo's mother perished was a complete ripoff of The Lion King (as was the elephant graveyard; if they'd bothered to do their research, they'd know that that is a myth, but nooooo, they just watched The Lion King), and I'm almost convinced that the Italian mafia created this movie so people would be repulsed by the prospect of being vegetarian and they'd have something to do with the dead bodies. Leo was unhealthily skinny throughout the movie, which is ironic, because the filmmakers were clearly trying to portray vegetarians as perfectly normal, which they are, but there were so many mixed messages from this character. The so-called protagonist would fluctuate between saying that he was born a vegetarian and had to follow his destiny, but then he'd say that he chose a herbivorous diet. Be prepared for the most grotesque lion-elephant hybrids, a horrifying chameleon whose face changes into those of the other characters, and a hilariously awful scene in which several different species-- including a terrifying if not demonic monkey-- suck milk from a zebra mother. As well as the movie's message being distorted, its plot kept changing too. The scene in which Uncle Lope "died" was the most pointless event in cinematic history. The climax was a huge letdown; they basically slid down a rainbow with the unnerving reptile version of Mystique into a puddle of slushy milk. All in all, it's quite an entertaining film to watch if you're into Communist propaganda, which it ended up being within five minutes.
Review of Leo the Lion
