The Lion King

I had enjoyed the previous Disney live action remakes, but I was right to be sceptical of this one. I applaud that Disney chose a diverse cast. However, having James Earl Jones back as Mufasa just makes all the other voices sound wrong. Also, it felt many of the best/funniest parts were changed for no good reason or give some of the big names in the film more screen time without substance.

Well. I was told that it was a reimagining. I've seen the original, the musical, and this version. And it's good, but not great. Not the movie I fell in love with. Disney clearly decided to play it safe and take out a lot of the edginess that gave it attitude. The result? I didn't feel the love tonight. I didn't feel much at all. Some aspects have probably added some authenticity to the movie. But this movie was never really about that. This movie is about standing up. I think that was lost

If you are a CGI enthusiast, it's a marvel to watch. That said, it's almost identical to the original. Sadly, however, the parts and songs that they removed generally made the movie worse and the things they added were almost entirely of no real consequence. It's the same old story, and outside of any desire to stare at the impressively life-like CGI animals, there's not a ton of other reasons to rewatch this version when the original Lion King is just so much better.

eh could have been worse

This is an excellent film. I honestly have nothing but praise for it 3 days after viewing.

Big disappointment. The cartoon was fine, but the so-called live action disappointed. The CGI was nicely done, but the expressions/mimics were therefore gone. Therefore, it was difficult to empathize with the individual characters. For me, it became another unnecessary remake of an fine cartoon.

I have watched nearly every live action remake as I'm always interested in seeing what new things new people can bring to the table with old stories. But see, they deleted Scar. They deleted Scar, and I didn't find out, and I sat through a very boring word-for-word remake that brought NOTHING but DID delete THE GREATEST VILLAIN SONG EVER CREATED, so now I HAVE to hate them all. You understand, right?

The characters were emotively lifeless and almost all of the voice acting fell flat, big names do not equal good voice actors. The musical parts were unimpressive and Be Prepared was utterly ruined. The lighting is practically never used to help convey anything within the narrative, and many of musical ques from the original film while still there are rendered meaningless. The environments were visually bland unlike the real world inspirations the original animators drew from. It just sucks.

worthless

This sucked. An absolute bore to watch and one of the worst travesties I have ever seen put to film. All of the other Disney remakes had SOMETHING to them. I didn't have fun in this movie at all.

Remove good drama and acting from the original animation but make the images super realistic. This animation suffers from bad acting and direction.

The rule is: if you remake the Lion King without *Be Prepared*, you include *The Madness of King Scar*. How do you omit both!? Focusing so much on realism means the characters are unexpressive and everything loses the charm the original had.

Good movie.