Impressive CGI but what else?

Rating: 4/10 (29 July 2019)

The CGI was impressive, providing some beautiful cinematography and lighting to the characters. The Hans Zimmer score - also beautiful however most of it was recycled for the original.
Much like the score, the plot was great as we'll but recycled from the original. I liked how some minor characters were fleshed out a little more, eg Sarabi and Shenzi.
BeyoncÃ© voiced Nala and god was it distracting. The star studded cast didn't really distract me as all of them were voice actors but BeyoncÃ© was just BeyoncÃ©. She wasn't trying to be Nala. I wish they had got a smaller African actress to play her part as I feel like that would've been so much more authentic. The songs were good apart from Can You Feel The Love Tonight, it just felt more like a Top 40 pop hit than an Elton John classic for the movie.