The Lion King 1½

2004 animated film directed by Bradley Raymond

The Lion King 1½ (known internationally as The Lion King 3: Hakuna Matata) is a 2004 direct-to-video live-action/animated musical film produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Disneytoon Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Home Entertainment on February 10, 2004. This middle-of-the-road feature retells the story of the 1994 blockbuster, The Lion King, in Timon and Pumbaa's perspective.

At the top of this page, when it said it was 2D-animated and live action, a cameo of a live action TV commercial (which actually had humans in it) was shown when the hyenas were chasing Uncle Max, but then Pumbaa accidentally sat on the remote and then fixes it and turns the movie back on. For the soundtrack, see The Lion King 1½: Songs From Timon and Pumbaa's Hilarious Adventure. For the song called "The Warthog Rhapsody," which has the same melody as the song, "That's All I Need," see it on Rhythm of the Pride Lands.

Thought you knew The Lion King? You don't know the ½ of it.
  • [first lines; singing] What’s on the menu?!
  • Pumbaa, this could be the start of a beautiful... acquaintanceship.
  • Friends stick together to the end.
  • Just eat me now and please make it fast. I have a low threshold for pain. [Pumbaa: Easy, easy there, little guy. I'm not going to eat you.]
  • [whispering] I see carnivores.
  • [Timon: Just eat me now and please make it fast, I have a low threshold for pain.] Easy, easy there little guy. I'm not going to eat you.
  • I'm an insectivore.
  • [Timon: He's gone? What do you mean he's gone?] It's just like the baboon said. The king has returned.
  • [hugging Timon and Pumbaa.] I couldn't have done it without you, guys.
  • Three pals and no worries.
  • [same lines from the first film.] Listen, you think you can just show up and tell me how to live my life? You don't even know what I've been through! [Nala: I would if you'd just tell me.] FORGET IT!!! [Nala: FINE!!!]
  • [Ma: Something's different about Timon.] You think? HE'S WEARING A DRESS!
  • I flinched when I should have scurried.
  • Applaud now, sonny boy, but try clapping when you don't have any hands.
  • This is no time for horseplay, Timon. You’re supposed to be up there looking out for... [Looks at Shenzi, Banzai and Ed] HYENAS!!!
  • [Timon: I was just trying to shed a little light on our pathetic existence.] Timon, this can't go on. Just this month, you've pulled down four walls and collapsed two tunnel exits. We have to look after each other. Our survival depends on it. [Timon: What's the point? All we do is dig so we can hide, and hide so we can dig. I want to be where we don't have to dig tunnels and live with our heads stuck in the sand. What's so bad about dreaming of a better home?] I want to show you something. Look, Timon. Go on, look. Look out to the horizon, past the trees, over the grasslands. Everything the light touches belongs to someone else. [Timon: Funny, I thought you were going a whole different direction with this.]
  • Get in here! What are you a meshugginah!

Dialogue

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Pumbaa: I don't do so well in crowds. Maybe we better go around.
Timon: Don't you know the shortest distance between me and my dream home is a straight line? Follow me.
Animal 1: Oh.
Timon: Excuse me.
Animal 2: Ow.
Animal 3: Hello.
Animal 4: Goodness.
Timon: Make room. Make room. Watch it, Twiggy. I'm walking here.
[Pumbaa and Timon wade through the crowd.]
Pumbaa: [Hears his stomach growling, so he sits down and stops his stomach. He clears his throat.] Timon, there's something I got to tell you.
Timon: Pumbaa, Pumbaa, Pumbaa. We will have a plenty of time to chat once we settle in.
Pumbaa: I could really use a rest stop.
Timon: [to Pumbaa] Don't worry. You'll get your second wind.
Pumbaa: (whimpering) I got a really bad feeling!
Timon: It'll pass. Trust me! It will pass. [he grabs Pumbaa's tail; Pumbaa farts. The animals bow before Simba.]
Zebra 1: Oh, look. The rhinos are bowing.
Zebra 2: Ooh, we'd better bow up, too.
Zazu: Look, sire, how they kneel before the royal son.
Timon: So, I guess that's your special power? What a weapon!
Pumbaa: You mean, you don't mind?
Timon: Are you kidding? It was a gas! [laughs]
Pumbaa: Well, I don't like to toot my own horn...
Timon: Yeah, that's probably for the best. [pauses out] Let's go, Pumbaa.
Pumbaa: Lead the way.

Ma: Hahuna Ma-what-a?
Rafiki: [chuckles] It means "no worries."
Ma: I see...
Rafiki: So, I told the boy: To find Hakuna Matata, you must look beyond what you see.
Ma: Ah, a metaphor.
Rafiki: Well, actually, it's not a... [Ma hits him with the stick] Ah!
Ma: You used a metaphor on Timon?! He takes things literally! That's it. He's starving out there. I just know it! Max! Timon's out there chasing metaphors. I've got to go find him!
Uncle Max: Are you nuts?!
Ma: Nice to have a supportive family, isn't it? Well, here I go.
Rafiki: Remember, the journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step.
Ma: Thanks, here's my first step. [Stomps on Rafiki's foot]
Timon: [Screams] OW!!!!!! [pauses; Pumbaa pulls one of three quills] Aye!!!
Pumbaa: This bowling from porcupines [spits the first quill] wasn't the best idea?
Timon: Yeah, it got to be right up there with bobbing for snapping turtles. Ow-ah-ahaha!!
Pumbaa: That's going to leave a mark. [spits the second quill] Look, Timon. Buzzards! What do you say? One more round?
Timon: Sure. There must be some part of me we haven't injured yet.
Pumbaa: Please? Please, please, please, please, please?
Timon: No, Pumbaa. I'm beat. You go ahead. I'm calling it a day. [pulls out one last quill]
Pumbaa: But it's no fun alone.
Timon: Why not? One more run won't change our lives!

[After the Can You Feel the Love Tonight song]
Timon: That's it, buddy. We gave it our best shot, but he's a goner.
Pumbaa: Maybe not...
Timon: You never give up, do you?
Pumbaa: Look!
Simba: [from the first film.] Listen, you think you can just show up and tell me how to live my life? You don't even know what I've been through!
Nala: I would if you'd just tell me.
Simba: Forget it!
Nala: Fine!
Timon: Pumbaa, do you know what this means?
Pumbaa: He can't express his feelings and she has commitment issues?
Timon: We won! [laughing] We split them up!
Pumbaa: And, that's a good thing? He seems to be taking it kind of hard.
Timon: Yeah, I know. But it's the best thing for us. I mean, for him! Let's go, Pumbaa. I think this storm's coming to a head. Hakuna Matata is safe at last, pal, because nothing's going to take our boy away now. [later, to Nala about Simba.] He's gone? What do you mean he's gone?!
Nala: It's just like the baboon said. The king has returned. [Timon and Pumbaa stare at her blankly. She sighs] You want me to go over it again?
Timon: Yes please, but be a dear and skip to the part about Simba. Not that your childhood wasn't fascinating.
Nala: Okay. Look, Simba's the rightful king, but after he disappeared, Scar proclaimed himself the king and formed an alliance with the hyenas... [As Nala talks, Timon and Pumbaa stop listening]
Pumbaa: [thinks] Poor Simba. The treachery! The villainy! The sheer indescribable horror!
Timon: [thinks] Blah, blah, blah. Why is she toying with us? This crazy chick is gonna eat us!
Nala: ...So Simba has to go home to challenge his uncle and reclaim his place as king. [Timon and Pumbaa stare blankly at her] Ohh, don't you get it? Simba needs us. Now! [she runs off to find Simba]
Timon: [indignant] He needs us? Then he shouldn't have left us! If he wants to run off to be "His Highness", well, I say, don't let the branches hit you on the way out! Leave Hakuna Matata to someone who appreciates it. [he strides off stubbornly]
Pumbaa: But, Timon... It's not really Hakuna Matata without Simba.
Timon: What has gotten into you? Not Hakuna Matata? That's crazy talk. Crazy talk, I tell you. Nothing's changed here. We had Hakuna Matata before Simba and we've still got it now.
Pumbaa: We got to go help our friend, Timon.
Timon: Et tu, Pumbaa? You're just going to walk away, give up on all this? What happened to "friends stick together to the end?" Huh? Huh? Huh?
Pumbaa: [incisively] I was about to ask you the same thing. [Pumbaa turns and stalks off. He looks back over his shoulder to see Timon flopping down in the bed]
Timon: [stubbornly] I got everything I ever wanted right here! [Pumbaa turns and trots off, a tear in his eye. Timon lies in the bed, tapping his toe. He begins to soliloquize to convince himself he's doing the right thing] Now, this is more like it. ELBOW ROOM!!! ["Elbow room" echoes an absurd number of times as the camera pulls back repeatedly; sits in despair] Uhhhh. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. [sighs] Hakuna Matata, what a wonderful phrase. Hakuna Matata, ain't no passin' craze. It means no worries. [Rafiki appears, laughing] No. No, no, no. Don't say a word. I know what you're going to say. [Imitates Rafiki] Did you find Hakuna Matata? [normal voice] Well, yes, I did. Thank you very much and I am happy... Happy, happy, deliriously happy. [imitates Rafiki again, laughing] I see. Happy, is it? So, if you're so happy, why do you look so miserable? [normal voice again] Miserable, you say? Why should I be miserable? Oh, I don't know. Maybe my two best pals in the world deserted me. They've headed off on some heroic mission. My friends are gone. And my Hakuna Matata went with them. [Rafiki nods] Would you mind? [Rafiki hits his head with stick] Ah! Thanks. I'm glad we had this talk. [he walks away]
Rafiki: My work here is done.

[at the end of the film]
Timon: Well, that's it. The big wrap-up. The happy ending. The grand finale.
Pumbaa: It's over already?
Timon: Well, Pumbaa. That's the thing about endings. They come at the end.
Pumbaa: Oh, can we watch it again?
Timon: Pumbaa, we just saw it. Maybe tomorrow.
Ma: [enters] Hey, what are you guys doing? [notices the film and gasps] You didn't tell me you were watching the movie. I want to watch, too!
Timon: Ma, we just finished. Show's over!
Ma: Well, you're just gonna have to rewind it. [runs the film back]
Timon: Ma!
Ma: Uncle Max, we're gonna watch the movie!
Timon: Oh, no!
Max: [enters with popcorn] Hey, I brought extra butter!
Simba: [enters] Hey, you guys are watching the movie?
Rafiki: [enters with laughter] Any story worth telling is worth telling twice.
[many Disney character enters the theater, starting with Mickey Mouse]
Timon: What the...?
Snow White: Oh, excuse me.
Dwarfs: [this 1 by 1, saves for Grumpy] Excuse me.
Grumpy: Get out of the way.
Timon: Who is this crowd? Hey! Down in front! [suddenly, Stitch bounces repeatedly from one character to another]
Goofy: Gawrsh!
Stitch: Aloha! [after getting hit by him, Donald quacks angrily at him; Peter Pan crows like a rooster and the Lost Boys pile on top on him]
Timon: Watch it! [he gets stuck in between Terk and Victor, then approaches Pumbaa after he gets launched by Dumbo] Okay, buddy. You win.
Pumbaa: Sure you don't mind?
Timon: Hakuna Matata. [he grabs the remote and starts the film]
Pumbaa: Timon, I still don't do so well in crowds.

Cast

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  • Matt Weinberg as Young Simba
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