The music bugged me... and story lacked

Rating: 2/10 (22 July 2019)

I'm probably alone on this, but the music was just corny. Too broadway for my taste. Just not sure why this gets so much praise. It totally lacks the magic old Disney films had.
Just when something decent started they jumped into a dance and a song. Not much of a fan of musicals, so this didn't help.
Why does one lion speak with an American accent but his brother (scar) with an English one? Did they not spend two seconds thinking about these things? All the voices were done so woodenly. Did they just read off a paper without any natural delivery. Because of the bad acting and it just didn't connect on a real BELIEVABLE emotional level. Whenever you see (hear in this case) bad acting it almost becomes a joke.
There was just a lack of story and character development. It. It went too quick into the conflict between the two lion brothers and then it seemed non-stop trying to kill Simba and the King. The story was just the wrong one, OR, it was just poorly structured and executed. They should have started it with Simba and his friendship and follow him as he learns the ways of the jungle. Instead we got 40 minutes of them trying to kill him before we even get some remotely interesting.
Just because it's animation doesn't mean you need to throw out basic story telling. This was just too simple and not in a good way, but in a hollow way.
The amount of praise this has gotten is a reflection of how little it takes to impress people.