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Simba begins life as an honored prince, son of the powerful King Mufasa. The cub's happy childhood turns tragic when his evil uncle Scar murders Mufasa and drives Simba away from the kingdom. In exile, the young lion befriends the comically bumbling pair of Pumbaa the warthog and Timon the meerkat and lives a carefree jungle life. As he approaches adulthood, however, he is visited by the spirit of his father, who instructs him to defeat the nefarious...
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This tale begins in Paris, where a kind millionairess wills her entire estate to her family of cats. The butler, Edgar, catnaps the mother cat and her kittens. Abandoned, they are rescued by Thomas O'Malley, a rough and tumble alley cat. On the way home they stop at Tom's place where Scat Cat and his band of jazz cats perform "Ev'rybody wants to be a cat.
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An animated version set to music. Quasimodo ventures from his tower to the joyous festival of fools, but the crowd turns cruel and rejects him because of the way he looks. The gypsy Esmeralda rescues him and he finds himself battling to save the people and the city he loves--while reminding us to see people as they are rather than how they appear.
6) Mary Poppins
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Mary Poppins is a kind of Super-nanny who, with her magical umbrella, flies into the lives of a proper, upper crust Edwardian English banker and his two children. She proceeds to put things right with the aid of her rather extraordinary magical powers and, in the process, teaches the family just how much fun life can be.