Beauty Isn't Everything

Rating: 3/10 (26 July 2019)

The good first: The visuals here are nothing short of amazing and Seth Rogen made me laugh a couple times. That's about it here, nothing more to see.
The bad: Nothing is totally bad here either, although I'll just say that for me Beyonce's songs were very out of place. My brain simply refused to believe that her voice fit into this world in any real way.
Now the meh: Unfortunately nearly everything else falls almost totally flat. I wasn't bothered by the loss of character facial expressions others have cited, the near shot-for-shot reproduction, or the majority of the musical changes (other than Beyonce, see above). The issue for me was mostly with the absence of feeling throughout and I'm not even sure what to point at for a reason.
in contrast, I still get emotionally invested whenever rewatching the original, despite seeing it probably a couple dozen times over the years. I have also been to see The Lion King Broadway show twice and look forward to going again in the future. These two productions of the story are, for lack of a better word, timeless.
This version of the story; however, didn't elicit any kind of emotional response. All I ended up feeling was disappointment that Disney hadn't simply re-released the original in theaters again instead or that I wasn't at the Broadway show again.