Dull with a dark undertone

Rating: 4/10 (28 July 2019)

First of all, I am a HUGE Disney fan and absolutely loved the original animation.
However, Favrea's remake was really disappointing and to be honest, quite pointless.
I feel that he tried so hard to perfect the CGI in this version that adding a voice to each of the animals just looked unrealistic (almost like watching a David Attenborough doc but with talking animals...). Also the choice of casting wasn't great apart from Donald Glover and Seth Rogan.
There were a few moments that tried to be funny as well through characters bickering with each other but they just weren't and the whole audience in the cinema remained quiet during every one of these moments. Even the songs were heavily auto tuned and lacked energy and 'oomph'.
Everything was just really disappointing, and instead of being warm, heartfelt and emotional like the original, this remake had a darker undertone and was dull the whole way through.
Maybe I'm just biased but I'm pretty sure 99.9% of people agree that this film was a big let down.
Not worth going to see unless you want to feel disappointed.