Please can we go back to cartoons?

Rating: 1/10 (27 March 2020)

Mufasa is the greatest thanks to James Earl Jones reprising the role. Scar I kind of liked until he sang (although he wasn't as creepy as the original which was what made him so fantastically scary). Young Nala had a sweet, pretty voice and her voice acting was very good for a child! The lioness mothers were just fine. In fact, Sarabi was great. Florence Kasumba was no Whoopi, but I don't care. She was great, and the change in Shenzi's lines were acceptable. I get that some things just sound stupid in a more realistic world, so some lines had to change. And her voice fit a more dark version of the Shenzi character. That was all fine.
I was less impressed by Zazu, adult Nala, both Simbas, and Timon. In fact, speaking of Timon, what the heck were they thinking? I feel like his character was sabotaged. And why were songs "updated" to crap status? Adult Nala sounds more masculine than Simba.
Yeah, okay, so I only realized during the butchering of Can You Feel the Love Tonight? that it was Beyonce, but I happened to like the young, sweet voice the original adult Nala had and was hoping they chose someone with a similar tone. And for the love of kids movies, producers, stop putting singers in animated movies thinking they'll help sell them. They're not actors and it's painfully obvious when they read because everything they say is FLAT. This travesty should have never been done to The Lion King.
I agree with another reviewer that this movie was like a documentary with voice overs. This tends to happen a lot with realistic CGI animals. It's because they lack the human-like expressions that cartoonists so skillfully create. They should have opted instead for cartoon CGI like Dreamworks did in The Prince of Egypt.
I wasn't actually expecting new voices or changed lines. I thought the look alone was being updated. I am so unimpressed with this movie. And here I was thinking I had to see the remake of this and The Lady and the Tramp. I will not sit through another garbage remake after watching this crap though. I wish I could give it 0 stars.