What a disappointment

Rating: 3/10 (9 November 2019)

I have a ton of respect for Jon Favreau, but he seriously missed it on this one. Past live action remakes Disney have been very good - Cinderella is hands down is my favorite and I like it better than the animated one. But the difficulty this movie faced was translating human emotion into live action CGI animals. It really just falls flat. Which I don't understand, because I thought Jungle Book was really well done and didn't suffer from that problem. And despite the star power, none of the voice acting was impressive. Scar's "Be Prepared" song was shortened and really just spoken, and not in a Jeremy Irons way that entertains. The rest of the singing was just ok too. Nothing makes me want to watch this movie again. It's slow and frankly just boring.