IMDb RATING
5.9/10
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Visual album from Beyoncé inspired by 'The Lion King'.Visual album from Beyoncé inspired by 'The Lion King'.Visual album from Beyoncé inspired by 'The Lion King'.
- Won 1 Primetime Emmy
- 2 wins & 8 nominations total
Tina Knowles
- Tina Knowles-Lawson
- (as Tina Knowles Lawson)
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This is breathtaking music to the ears and eyes. A representation of black beauty, diverse African culture and history. It is a shame that resentful and insecure people have voted this movie down without having seen it. She included people of all races, focusing on one specific race that needs a little more love and celebration. If you don't understand how important and monumental this movie was, I hope you will in the future. This one is for the history books!
Directed by Beyoncé Knowles Carter and dedicated to her son Sir! I hope to see this movie at the Oscars.
Directed by Beyoncé Knowles Carter and dedicated to her son Sir! I hope to see this movie at the Oscars.
85 minutes of the most visually arresting, mind-blowingly opulent and strikingly powerful visuals ever put to film. It's truly that good.
You can always tell when a project touches on race or politics when you see lots of both 1/10 or 10/10 reviews, it's better than 1 but way short of a 10.
It dragged on, visually impressive but thats just not enough
As a black man, this whole film reeked of racism. The title alone is enough to turn you away and the hour and half long film appears to be a desperate attempt at some sort of award. No thanks.
Its just one giant musci video, and not the good kind. the one that just has a few shots of the characters singing, and some eyecandy in between. and the music doesnt drive a distinct narrative, so the it all feels directionless. it tries to mask itself with the lion king, but fails dreadfully. it just uses snipets of the movie in between songs, and tries to the the songs after each snippet. but the songs end up not driving the story further, thus each snippit with each song comes off as disjointed.
2/10: just listen to the music, you dont need these visuals
2/10: just listen to the music, you dont need these visuals
Did you know
- TriviaThe red dress with gold jewelry that Beyoncé wears at one point in the album is a subtle homage to Mattel's historical First Black Barbie Doll.
- ConnectionsEdited into Beyoncé, Shatta Wale, Major Lazer: Already (2020)
- SoundtracksCôte D'Ivoire: Little Girls' Sung Games (Extract)
Courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
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- Runtime
- 1h 25m(85 min)
- Color
- Sound mix
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