Review of The Lion King (2019) by Leewriter1 — 23 Jul 2019

I won't include a link to our show on YouTube but I will say Stephen Craig and I have a movie review show on YT and we try to post one episode/week but we don't always succeed. Normally we review one new release per show but with this being a remake, we decided to watch and review both the new and the old "The Lion King".

The remake is so lacking in life, energy, humor and appealing music. In short, it's less of everything when compared to the 1994 original with one exception: it's more realistic. And added realism doesn't equate to a better story.

In this case, the original animated version was perfectly fine but Disney knew they'd earn a nice profit from redoing it with new technology so they did it. It's like my view of the "Aladdin" remake: the only reason it was done was for money.

But "The Lion King" in CGI is even a worse remake than "Aladdin" because the remake sucked the life and fun out of the story, especially the hyenas! In the animated tale, the trio were at times hilarious, at times menacing, but always more lively and interesting than the CGI version.

Shame on you, Disney, for taking the easy way out (again) and instead of giving us new story lines, fresh characters and new plots, you take the path of least resistance and slap new technology on the same story and omit classic songs like "Circle of Life" and leave the audiences uninspired and at times bored.

Very shameful indeed. I'm not paying another cent to watch anymore of Disney's CGI remakes and I don't think anyone should. Moviegoers deserve better than that.