This week sees a nineties favourite return to the big screen in all it's 3D glory... yes I am talking about The Lion King 3D.
This Disney classic has already been met well in the States having topped the box office - and that success looks set to continue here.
So to celebrate the re-release of the movie we take a look back to the decade it was originally released and celebrate some of the best movies of the nineties.
- The Lion King
The nineties was a hugely successful period for Disney and 1994 saw the world go crazy for Simba and the gang.
The movie remains to be the highest-grossing hand drawn animation film in history as it went on to gross in excess of $884 million worldwide.
Disney once again tackled the subject of loss of a parent like Bambi had done years ago - and packed an emotional punch as well as being a movie where you could get lost in the characters and the music.
In true Disney style there are larger than life characters and a great songs and score with Hans Zimmer, Elton John and Tim Rice all contributing.
- Fight Club
Fight Club remains one of David Fincher's most love movies as he brought the Chuck Palahniuk novel to the big screen in 1999.
This was a bold and inventive movie, we shouldn't have expected any less from Fincher, and Edward Norton and Brad Pitt are totally superb together.
But it was one of the most controversial and most talked about movies of 1999 and was considered a milestone for visual style.
The film was recognised as an innovator in cinematic form and style as Fincher and co mixed a bland and realistic palette with more hyper visual styles as mixing computer animation and sleight-of-hand editing.
The movie gained a cult following when it was released on to DVD and it remains one of the classics of the decade.
- The Usual Suspects
1995 saw Bryan Singer grab everyone's attention with the totally super The Usual Suspects - which remains one of the greatest crime movie.
Singer brings together an exciting cast of very talented actors who bring these interesting and multi-layered characters to life in this old fashioned crime caper that does feel incredibly modern.
But of course it has the most superb twist - that has never been surpassed when it comes to a 'I didn't see that coming' moment.
- Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park is another nineties movie that we have seen back on the big screen of late to promote the release of the Blu-Ray.
What is still great about this movie is the special effects don't appear dated and this movie could so easily have been made yesterday instead of nearly twenty years ago.
When released the film grossed $914 million at the box office, making it the biggest grossing film ever at the time, beating E.T which originally held the title.
And Jurassic Park remains the most successful movie, in terms of money at the box office, for Spielberg.
- Pulp Fiction
You can't look at the best movies of the nineties without giving a little mention to Quentin Tarantino and Pulp Fiction.
Tarantino shot to prominence in 1994 as Pulp Fiction took cinemas by storm as it became the first indie picture to break the $100 million barrier.
As well as winning the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival the film received seven Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, with Tarantino winning for Best Original Screenplay.
With it's non-linear structure the film remains a classic in it's genre as well as creating interest in Tarantino's first picture Reservoir Dogs.
- Beauty and the Beast
Until Up came along in 2009 Beauty and the Beast remained the only animated film to ever have been nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars back in the early nineties.
This tale as old as time remains one of the most loved Disney movies with breathless animation and a great series of characters.
The enduring legacy of Beauty and the Beast is the movie's heart and soul delivering the message that the greatest thing that you will ever learn is to love and be loved in return.
The Lion King 3D is released 7th October.
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