Disney Villains – Scar from ‘The Lion King’
December 7th, 2009
Having recently watched a copy of ‘The Lion King’ which was not hastily bought from Ebay for twenty quid or more nor a bad illegal copy without the shiny shiny on the front, I thought it was time to see just how bad the main bad guy from the film was. Bad bad.
Eighty-five minutes is not a long time to whip some shizz up but Scar seems to do it quite well. Having waited for the right moment to unleash hell, which sees his brother become king and then his nephew become the heir to the throne, he then waits even longer until the child is at the gullible age to believe he actually gives a damn. Thankfully we are spared the long silences where Scar sits, rolls over, scratches his welcomes and thinks, “F*cking hell, this is taking forever!”
First he sends Simba off to the elephants graveyard in the hope the hyenas will eat his face off, then he perfects a plan whereby his brother gets run over by a herd of buffalo on the M1 and pushes Simba out of the pride hanging a huge cloud of guilt over the small boy’s head (as he makes him believe he is responsible for his dad popping his clogs). Scar then promptly takes over, brings in his army of hyenas and proceeds to eat everything within a five mile radius.
In the end with everything hanging in the balance, and Simba still a force of nature despite being turned into a namby-panby insect eating hippie by Timon and Pumbaa, Scar slips up and reveals it was his dastardly plan to kill Mufasa. Then the hyenas tear him to bits.
All in all he does do a very good job. Not quite Cruella DeVille of course however with the standard British baddie accent you can never do wrong. 8 out of 10.