Disney Went Greedily Coldhearted

Rating: 4/10 (27 July 2019)

This film will NEVER be better than the original film. Why? Because the voice actors and actresses in this film made the characters have less emotional voices, less facial expressions to represent emotions, and less passion in their singing except for Beyoncé. Speaking of passionate singing. Jeremy Irons had very much more passion in his voice when he talked and sang in the original film for the role of Scar than Chiwetel Ejiofor did. Especially when Jeremy sang the song "Be Prepared". "Be Prepared", "Circle of Life", and "Hakuna Matata" were my song favorites from the original. However, I only liked "Circle of Life" and "Hakuna Matata" from this 2019 remake. Thankfully, James Earl Jones reprised his role for the Mufasa character. For a digital film such as this one, the people responsible for making this film could have made the digitized animals have more emotional expressions like in the original film. Also, this film had missing lines from the original film that I really loved when I was a kid. Simba's lines were "Help! Somebody! Anybody!" when he tries to find someone to help his father Mufasa who died because of Scar unknowingly when he was a cub. When Simba said the words somebody and anybody, I felt an emotional reaction to that. But, this film decided to remove that. Even though the people tried their "best" to make this film, I only felt coldhearted greed on Disney's end. And Beyoncé's song "Spirit" gets repetitive and I can't seem to feel any deeply emotional meaning in her song compared to the song "Circle of Life". Removed lines from the original film just made this film like it was cutting corners instead of trying to make a deep meaningful message from this film. Shame.