Review of The Lion King (2019) by Stardustwhip — 15 Oct 2022

This is nothing but a glorified feature length tech demo that looks pretty but lacks any emotion whatsoever. Simba's facial expression as he's processing the death of his beloved father is the same as it was earlier when he sang about wanting to be king.

Even the voice acting isn't as good as the original, with pretty much nobody being able to give half as good a performance as the 1994 cast did, including James Earl Jones in his role reprisal as Mufasa.

The only thing I enjoyed while watching this movie was the visual of photorealistic Scar straight up punching photorealistic Mufasa in the face in this movie's take on the iconic Mufasa death scene, and I get the feeling I didn't like it for the reasons they wanted me to like it.