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You know why i love this movie?

posted 17 years ago by mohamedsid7
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I give this movie 9/10. I never do that. The reason i love this movie after seeing is over a dozen times, is that i always find something new to laugh at that i missed all the other times.

Case in point, when Earnie is socializing right before the auction:

"Hakuna Matata."
"The crepes, c'est magnifique."
"Thank you. They are good aren't they?"
"I espiecally love the raisins."
"Raisins?"

I don't know why i never noticed this little remark about the mouse crapping on the food (maybe i focused too much on the Hukuna Matata part which for those of you who don't know is from Timon and Pumba and that sheik he says it to is played by the guy who voiced Pumba) but i laughed HARD when i noticed it.

Brilliant film.

[–] budt3 17 years ago

Another funniness happens when Ernie is greeting and serving the mayors family
He uses a bunch of fractured french. He calls the mayors kids bicycle thieves, says something about a library, serves duck with la quack sauce.
It is worth queuing up just for that scene.

Be yourself, everyone else is taken

[–] mohamedsid7 17 years ago

I know exactly what you're talking about but i didn't miss it 'cause i like to put closed captions on when i watch movies.

"Ah you brought the little ones. The little bicycle thieves."

"Duck A La'Orange avec du quack sauce."

"...........la biblioteque."

la biblioteque part made me laugh. He's describing what ingredients he uses and then throws in the french word for library in there. That's just a famous french word that non-french speakers use when they're pretending to speak french and Nathan Lane put it in so effortlessly.

What a great actor, he should do more mainstream hollywood flicks.

But yeah, anyone else have funny bits they just noticed and can't believe they missed it the other dozen times?

[–] danevans84 17 years ago

I love this film, it has Universal appeal because of the brilliantly-timed slapstick and the plot is seamless (if a bit fantastical). I was a councilor at a summer camp in the US and I showed it to some 9-10 year old Korean students. They loved it and thought it was hysterical!