A Mediocre remake, with some, though not many, good moments

Rating: 5/10 (4 August 2019)

Disney takes its live action remakes, or CGI enhanced (whichever you prefer), to a whole other level of lazy with a film that lacks the true creative and well crafted spark of the original. Though the film lacks on any truly new material worthwhile, and is choppy and uneven with some of its delivery of new material, not everything is lost when it comes to this remake. Billy Eichner and Seth Rogen provide fairly good performances as Timon and Pumbaa, and the graphics (CGI) are needless to say breathtaking. Besides the first third or so of the film, which is mostly a formulaic and tonely unstable retelling of the original, the film does prove to be at least mildly entertaining, and there is plenty of interest to be seen by the beautiful and undeniably realistic views it provides. In the end, The Lion King (2019) was somewhat pointless, and even though there is much missed potential when it comes to this Disney retelling, all we can truly say to make things better is that it could have been worse.
My Rating: 5.25/10