No soul, no cleverness, no point

Rating: 2/10 (1 December 2019)

The original Lion King was a movie that I don't really care about due to me not having seen it in a very long time. That being said, I wasn't excited for this film at all and when I finally watched it a few days ago, I was blown away by how bad this was. One of the worst films of the year without question.
Like I said before, I'm not a fan of the original due to me just not having seen them in so long but this new movie is just bad as a movie and there's no way to connect with it outside of your already existing attachment to the original which is something I don't have. The whole film is literally a pointless shot for shot remake of the original that only exists to make a bunch of money, I have never seen a more perfect example of a cashgrab.
There's nothing the movie really offers because from watching it, you gain absolutely nothing. It's a worse version of the original movie in literally every way, there's not one aspect of quality in the film that is improved upon. The humor is painfully unfunny, the dramatic moments don't work because the the acting sucks and the visuals, while they aren't bad, never look believable because not once do you stop and think "wait, is that real".
The acting is bad because none of the actors fit the characters because they were literally put in the movie just to get butts in the seats, they clearly haven't put any thought into who would be a good voice for the character. Also, that BeyoncÃ© song that they add in, what a slap in the face to the fans of the original!
Overall, The Lion King live action remake is every bad modern Disney trope rolled into one film with it's manipulative writing, ugly visual style, atrocious acting, pathetic pandering and cancerous comedy. Also, Mufasa's death is one of the most unintentionally hilarious scenes I've seen in a while.