A complete and utter disappointment.

Rating: 1/10 (13 August 2019)

**SPOILER ALERT**
I was so looking forward to watching this, because the animated cartoon was one of my favourites from Disney. It started out promising, and then as it continued on, I started dreading what was going to come. The character's voices lacked depth, and feeling. It was almost like they were sick of saying the lines over and over - the moments between Mufasa and Simba felt emotionless. Zazu was turned into a complete idiot, he was no longer the lovable snob we saw in the animated version. I hated Nala - Beyonce was the worst possible choice for her, not even sure why she was included in this movie. The songs were boring because once again, emotion was lacking; Beyonce's song made no sense because it simply didn't match the rest of the score, and her rendition of "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" was cringe-worthy. The original score was amazing, but was used at the wrong moments for this movie, so once again, this ruined scenes that I was looking forward to. Hakuna Matata was completely spoilt because they changed the lyrics, it wasn't charming anymore, it just ended up being disgusting. Also, Timon's accent is one you cannot forget from the cartoon, nothing can replace that voice - why they would fail to include proper voice actors is beyond me. The original voice actors were perfect, and this version was a massive fail (I'm sad to say that even Mufasa sounded very emotionless... he just wasn't the same, and he didn't seem to be as majestic). So for those of you looking to watch a good version of the Lion King - just stick to the original, because this movie has nothing on that.