Just did a Rewatch myself in preparation for the remake, and its just as I remember it. Scene to Scene, Dialogue to Dialogue, its all just so wholly ingrained in my brain. Its beautiful, its funny, and it just gets my emotions going. As an adult I still remember watching this for the first time, one of my first memories of watching something at home, and the father son relationship is just as moving.
If you were lucky as me and had the same relationship as I did with my dad, you cannot hold back the tears with Simba seeing his father as this Superman idol, and then being reminded that the ideal died long ago as you started realizing as a young adult that the passage of time will mean he will get old, he will get weaker, and that as a human he does have faults. And watching it now, seeing my father become weaker and older, it gets harder to watch the movie because I keep seeing myself and my dad in Simba and Mufasa, we had the same mentor/buddy strict when he needed to he synergy, same noogies, same everything. God damn it this movie.