Mufasa: The Lion King (now streaming on Disney+, in addition to VOD platforms like Amazon Prime Video) prequelifies the Lion King franchise by regaling us with the origin story of its title ...

Take Rafiki. In one scene in the 1994 film, he and Simba argue about which of them is a baboon. Clearly Simba's not a baboon. But neither is Rafiki. He's a different kind of monkey altogether ...

As "The Circle of Life" plays, he's held aloft by the baboon Rafiki, a moment that causes the animals gathered below to shake, sway and trumpet their excitement. And just like the Jungle Book ...