Review of The Lion King (2019) by Brunovn00 — 21 Jul 2019

They say "if it ain't broke, DON'T FIX IT".

The Lion King (2019) is the best example of the result of trying to fix something that was never broken in the first place, not even a bit cracked. If you're going to remake what's pretty much aThey say "if it ain't broke, DON'T FIX IT".

The Lion King (2019) is the best example of the result of trying to fix something that was never broken in the first place, not even a bit cracked.

If you're going to remake what's pretty much a near-perfect movie in every aspect, you must TRY really hard to make it be at least as good as the original, but it seems that with this remake they didn't even TRY. This movie is completely pointless: The exact same story, the exact same songs, the exact same sequence of events, sometimes even to the point of being the exact same shots (Just watch the opening, it's literally taken shot by shot from the animated version), really it seems that they didn't even try this time, it's laughable.

Say goodbye to the vibrant color palette and the expressiveness of the characters. Sure the hyperrealistic visuals looks stunning but they don't fit the characters: WHY ARE THEY REALISTIC ANIMALS!? THEY CAN'T EMOTE FOR SH*T. I swear that if you watch the movie with the sound off you will not tell what the characters are supposed to feel, who thought of remaking The Lion King in this style!?

Some minor changes are completely pointless, like how they turned the female hyena (I don't remeber her name) into a serious and menacing leader...Why? They turned Scar into a boring and generic evil character. In the original Scar had a lot more charisma and personality and here he's just evil, his line delivery is boring and he sounds like annoyed all the time. And there are TWO MORE FART JOKES, seriously!? While in the original there was only one and that was the worst moment of the movie, here there are two more, oh my god. Some more extra shots to pad the runtime (although I thought that the sequence of how Rafiki found out that Simba is still alive was cool...I guess).

I didn't expect anything from this remake and somehow managed to disappoint me anyway, this is an awful movie that is an insult to the original, they couldn't even remake The Lion King right.