You know what I think about a lot? The lies Mufasa tells! Ever since initially seeing The Lion King as a kid, I felt sympathy for the hyenas. Banzai, Shenzi, and Ed were banished from the Pride Lands, ...

In the original animated Lion King, the hyenas were depicted as crass lowlifes that many interpreted as thinly veiled stand-ins for minorities. The new version goes in a different direction. In case ...

The hyenas in the original Lion King were decidedly among the bad guys, but they had some unusual motivations: they aligned with archvillain Scar in hopes of landing a good meal. “We’ll have food, ...

The original ‘Lion King’ had a racist hyenas problem. The new film fixes that, with mixed results. In the original animated Lion King, the hyenas were depicted as crass lowlifes that many interpreted ...

Maybe not as seriously as the hyena researchers that filed a lawsuit against Disney upon the release of the animated film The Lion King back in 1994. While Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed — the three main ...

For generations of viewers, "The Lion King" is sacred ground. But Keegan-Michael Key embraced the opportunity to appear in Disney's photorealistic remake (in theaters Friday) of the 1994 animated ...

Long before Whoopi Goldberg was dicing it up in the often-controversial talk show "The View," the actress showed she could survive in the jungle – as part of a trio of hyenas in 1994's "The Lion King.