I have some notes

Rating: 2/10 (27 July 2019)

Some things I liked that they changed, and some things were a travesty. The things I liked were the singing voices for simba, the realism, the lion sleeps tonight scene, and John Oliver as zazu (I cant stop laughing at the news joke cause of LWT). The realism added a scarier element, and had my heart racing and the floor was shaking with each roar.
Things I hated:
A lot of emotion was just forgotten with lines we already know. "Scar help me" had NO CONVICTION. Sounded like he got a paper cut. I'll get to Timon and pumba later, but they had no real character so it felt bland. Scar had no emotion so it was hard when he said old lines (and again I'll cover him later).
Timon is a guy white man. Seriously. Why. That was his character. Timon and pumba were like will and grace in the jungle with no personality.
Scar in the cartoon was sassy and lively, and I personally liked him. He is one of my favorite villains. You enjoy watching him on screen and it sucks to see him be so evil, but you also like it in a way. You love to hate him. This scar? The voice is wrong. And he has...no personality. He's just...blah. This works for when he kills mufasa because you hate hate him, but it makes any scene with him boring or uncomfortable.
WHAT DID YOU DO TO BE PREPARED?! Omg it's ruined. What is it, a spoken word song? Ugh it was painful to sit through.
They cut a lot of rafiki out. All of his speeches, all of his crazy, and the main moral!...instead now you have a bunch of new characters in the oasis for some reason? Totally worth it. Totally.
You gave Ed words and now he isn't funny. Seriously, none of the hyenas were funny. They also made it so that scar wasn't already in charge of them, which was a strange change that I can't decide if it was good or bad.
What was that weird new song that has nothing to do with the movie that played while simba ran home? So many songs you could have played but you chose some weird song about spirit?
BeyoncÃ© as nala (rolling my eyes)
All in all if this were the last live action ruining I'd be so happy. I'm sick of Disney taking my childhood and lazily plopping together remakes that make me feel bad. Mulan and the Little Mermaid are up next and they both will be bad if not worse than this. They just need to learn that we don't want change. Good idea, bad execution.