Beautiful But No Emotion

Rating: 2/10 (2 August 2019)

Visually, the movie is stunning. The CGI is beautiful and realistic, but that's where the good in this remake ends.
The voice acting is incredibly lacklustre, which is sad considering they had a good cast to work with. The singing was mediocre, and hearing BeyoncÃ© completely take over what was supposed to be a duet was frustrating to say the least. I'm not sure why they felt the need to include a new pop song in this when they had all kind of material from the stage musical that they could have used. They also ruined Be Prepared, which was arguably the best song from the original film. Mufasa's death had none of the impact from the original film, either.
Don't waste your money seeing this in the theatre, wait for it to come out to rent or watch for free. Or just go watch the original, it'll be a much better experience.