These are of course only my own, personal TOP10 reasons for loving it. :)
1. It's very unlike your standard Disney cartoon. It's dark and psychologically deep and complex story and doesn't sugar amerikana anything. Even the dead stay dead. Apart from Mufasa's ghost coming to guide Simba, but he was still dead! And unlike usually, the "resurrection" actually works for the story instead of being there to make kids happy. I mean, without the ghost scene the story would've been very different.
2. It bases on Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' mixed with a bit of the story of Moses from the Bible. That makes the story...
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