Scar (The Lion King) "handle[s] all of the dramatic heavy lifting." Even film critics who generally disliked the film tended to enjoy Scar's characterization and Irons's performance. Terrence Rafferty of "The New Yorker" wrote, "Among the celebrity voices on the soundtrack, two performances stand out," namely, "Jeremy Irons, as the villainous lion Scar" who "does an elegant, funny George Sanders impersonation." (Sanders himself had voiced Shere Khan for Disney in their 1967 version of "The Jungle Book"). Stephen Hunter of "The Baltimore Sun "described Irons's voice as "plummy-rich with rancid irony." Television Without Pitys Ethan Alter admitted to enjoying Scar, praising the character as
The Jungle Book (1967 film) for PlayStation and PlayStation 2. Kaa and Shere Khan have also made cameo appearances in another Disney video game, "Quackshot". A world based on the film was intended to appear more than once in the Square Enix-Disney "Kingdom Hearts" video game series, but was omitted both times, first in the first game because it featured a similar world based on "Tarzan", and second in "", although areas of the world are accessible via hacking codes. Since the film's release, many of the film's characters appeared in "House of Mouse", "The Lion King 1½", "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", and "Aladdin and