Review of The Lion King (2019) by Stephanie Zacharek for Time — 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 humanity of the earlier version’s animated ones—the picture still has a manufactured, preachy sheen.
This is calculated virtuousness masquerading as imagination, though it’s easy to be sidetracked by how adorable the cub Simba is.
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This review of The Lion King (2019) was written by Stephanie Zacharek and published by Time on 11 Jul 2019.
The Lion King has generally received positive reviews.
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