A worthless rehash

Rating: 1/10 (12 July 2019)

The only positives I have to say is that some of the effects are excellent, and James Earl Jones still has a great voice, Seth Rogen was fine. Everything else is bad.
The direction is flat and without style or substance, most likely due to the constrictive nature of having the entire movie be "photorealistic" CGI.
The environments themselves are dull and shallow, it really shows off how excellent the original 2D animated one was in it's colorful settings and inventive musical/dance numbers. In this imitation whenever a song plays here we just have realistic (and sometimes terrible/rubbery looking) animals jogging along a boring, drab jungle.
Most of the characters are hollow shells of their original counterparts, especially Scar. Instead of being a sleek lion (expertly voiced by Jeremy Irons) who chews the scenery , and genuinely loves being evil; Now he's just some dirty/malnourished looking lion who sounds like some random guy off the street. Not intimidating in the slightest.
I don't really have much else to say... It's the typical modern Disney cash grab remake; they use the same plot with minor alterations, with "live action" slapped on it as some sort of gimmick to get the dumb popcorn chewing masses into the theater. It's the visual equivalent of highly processed pig slop, it is to art what drawing a moustache on the Mona Lisa is (the same thing, but slightly altered).