Jon Favreau was a great director until now

Rating: 4/10 (4 March 2020)

I'm aware that some people like this movie and to that I say "good for you". Feel free to love whatever you want. I mean, what right do I (or anyone else) have to take that enjoyment away from you. These are just my own thoughts on why the film in question didn't quite work for me, so if you don't agree with me then that's fine because we're all entitled to have our own personal opinions.
For the most part, I've been totally fine with Disney wanting to remake their animated films into a live-action setting because at the very least they try to differentiate them from the originals. I can't however say the same about The Lion King.
So why didn't I like this? Well, it's probably for the same reason I didn't like Peter Jackson's three-hour-long King Kong remake (2005). It was nothing more than an exact shot-for-shot remake which, in my personal opinion, is one of the most laziest things a remake could possibly do! They just didn't try to put any effort into making the story feel different at all, which is the whole point of remaking something in the first place, so therefore this pointless remake has no real reason to even exist. It shows a serious lack of creativity and originality in Hollywood today, which is something I find really sad. This is why I like the new Spider-Man films so much because they're trying to be different from the old Toby Maguire ones.
Another aspect that kind of irked me about the film was the fact it isn't really "live-action" like how people say it is because they made the film entirely inside a computer so it's technically all animated. The bone-idle filmmakers could've been practical with their decisions, by going on location to shoot some scenes in the vast landscapes of the real African wilderness and then add the computer-generated animals in later on during post-production. But I guess they just couldn't be bothered so they settled on doing the whole thing in "photorealistic-CGI" instead, which is why most of the so called "natural habitats" and supposed "real-world environments" all felt artificial to me, because it didn't feel as if I were watching a live-action film actually play out (the human eye can detect fake stuff fairly easy, especially when it comes to digital graphics).
At the end of the day, what it all boils down to is the fact that the Disney Company knows their unnecessary remakes will sell like hotcakes because they're strategically targeted towards the very large demographic of people whose nostalgic minds are permanently stuck in the past and as a result are unable to move on and broaden their horizons by giving new and original films a try out.