The right editing choices to do the original's spirit justice

Rating: 10/10 (7 September 2019)

Finally, a skillful remake that does the actual, true spirit of the Lion King's world justice. It has its' flaws, but that doesn't take much away from the rest. I loved how they kept the pace of the original but still added and changed only some necessary details to fit the real animation style. Many people complain about the real-looking lions, but I think NOTHING is more epic and heart-moving and beautiful for a story like this than actually real looking animals.
I can't imaging how any other animation style could have done the dark and brutal action scenes, or the scenes of Simba's desperation justice.
We don't need another bad comical lion animation with big-eyed weirdly proportioned animals out there.
I'm glad they took real-looking lions.
I loved what they made of Shenzi and how Zazoo's role was more important. Scar's performance was amazing.
The action scenes and music moved me to tears and gave me goosebumps the whole time. My god, everything was so beautiful!
The details in their mimic when the lions looked at each other!
Now, to add some light critique,
The additions they made for the jungle song scene were fun, just a little too much back to the comic nature of the original at some parts.
Young Simba, I must admit, didn't have much facial expression at all and I felt they forgot to involve his ears more into his mimic.
Although almost all other animals looked exactly like real animals, the hyenas reminded of mutated pitbulls and I have no idea who of the two male hyenas was supposed to be Ed because they completely changed the way they acted.
Overall, there were some flaws, but as an adult who was obsessed with the original as a child, I'm really happy with how the remake turned out.