I was pretty disappointed.

Rating: 5/10 (20 July 2019)

I came into the theatre super excited to see this movie. So far I thought Disney has been doing an amazing job on all their remakes. The only one I haven't seen yet is Dumbo.
First I'll start with the positives:
The animation is beautiful. It really does make you feel like you're actually watching the animals.
There's new characters. No one wants to see an exact copy of the original, so this was a fun and neat move.
Most of the music sounded great.
John Earl Jones, such an iconic voice for Mufasa.
For the negatives:
The characters show very little emotion. There were certain things in the cartoon version that made you feel what the characters felt, the movement of the ears, facial expressions, etc.
I feel they took out the best parts of the original. Grafiki never hits Simba on the head with his stick. A lot of Timone and Pumba's parts were altered or missing making the duo just seem awkward instead of the hilarious duo they were in the original. All the hyena jokes were missing with a very few mediocre new jokes about personal space. There were other thing they could have changed up and kept the parts listed in to make their movie differences.
I'll probably receive hate for this but Beyoncé as Nala. I just felt her voice sounded too mature for a young Lioness. The deep pitch threw me off. I feel she would have been better suited for Sarabi. A voice higher pitched like Rihanna would have worked better for Nala in my opinion. Beyoncé also drug some of the word out making them longer than they should have been which made Nala sound more confused than not.
Over all I give this movie 5 stars. I didn't hate it but I didn't love it.