What?! I'm awake. And that from my kid.

Rating: Null/10 (21 July 2019)

Boring, slow, monochromatic as well as monotone voice work. There was nothing glaringly bad but there's no raison d'etre. Since real animals are expressionless, the actors, the scenes the songs should have made up the difference by taking it up a notch on all fronts. Instead, they took a nap and so did my kids. I spent the time playing guess the voices. We all perked up at the new version of "Be Prepared" which was the 1st And last innovation in the film. Scar held his own but in most cases, the voices were a disappointment. Especially Zazu (both in sight and sound.) Surprisingly, even JEJ changed his part for the worse. I would have been more satisfied with the dubbed original voices. We needed color and pizazz and surprises- besides letting Pumba say, "Farted." Opps, forgot to say spoiler alert. The only bright spot for me, were the 2 underling hyenas- thanks Key. They were funny and refreshing though we didn't see them enough. Lastly, the only other bright spot, for me was the CGI. The live action aspect was a pleasure to behold, but after the initial awe of it, there was just disappointment. It's like, it was all handed to you on a silver platter, how did you mess this up?