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By Kendra James (4) for The Verge (432) on 11 Jul 2019

While it’s a near shot-for-shot remake of the original, this version of The Lion King lacks much of the emotion and expressiveness that keeps…

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By K. Austin Collins (343) for Vanity Fair (761) on 11 Jul 2019

The Lion King, ultimately, is simply a copy—not a true remake…

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By Dana Stevens (1,435) for Slate (2,081) on 11 Jul 2019

Uncanny singing animals aside, a secondary effect of the film’s commitment to zoological verisimilitude is to place the voice actors in a…

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By Jake Coyle (526) for The Associated Press (882) on 11 Jul 2019

Jon Favreau’s The Lion King, so abundant with realistic simulations of the natural world, is curiously lifeless…

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By Bilge Ebiri (1,050) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 11 Jul 2019

It doesn’t help that the characters in some cases have been rendered with such realism that they have lost all human expression on their…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for The New York Times (9,847) on 11 Jul 2019

The songs don’t have the pop or the splendor. The terror and wonder of the intra-pride battles are muted…

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By Rodrigo Perez (382) for The Playlist (3,871) on 11 Jul 2019

Without a marriage of inspired storytelling, straight up regurgitation doesn’t elevate new tech…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Time (1,811) on 11 Jul 2019

And while the new Lion King is slightly easier to take—maybe because these heavily CGI-enhanced “real” lions don’t have the same cartoon…

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By Matt Singer (625) for ScreenCrush (954) on 11 Jul 2019

As a purely technical achievement, the new CGI cast of The Lion King is impressive. As a means to tell its fictional story, it is deeply misguided…

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By Alissa Wilkinson (499) for Vox (725) on 11 Jul 2019

So The Lion King now has its very own pristine cover album, rendered in intricate, realistic detail, a high-fidelity B-side for its many devoted…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 11 Jul 2019

The new music helps, a little. But the movie is a karaoke act, re-creating the original movie’s story beats beat-by-beat-by-beat…

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By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 11 Jul 2019

Ultimately, only Billy Eichner and Seth Rogen, as slacker sidekicks Timon and Pumbaa, make much of an impression; their funny, possibly ad-libbed…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for IndieWire (3,631) on 11 Jul 2019

It’s the work of a studio that’s gobbled up the rest of the film industry and is still hungry for more…

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By Pat Brown (171) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Jul 2019

There’s something very cheap at the core of this overtly, ostentatiously expensive film, reliant as it is on our memory of the original to…

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