While the Narrative Holds Up, This Shot-For-Shot Remake Poses a Moral Issue

Rating: 6/10 (8 August 2019)

I have always believed that the purpose of a remake was to produce a creative and new way of looking at an original story.
When I went to see the remake of The Lion King, what I did not expect was a shot for shot remake that simply had better special effects. Honestly, I don't see why they even bothered hiring new actors to do the voices when Disney could have used exactly the same audio and simply reanimated it.
The only new approach that this version brings to the table is more realistic special effects. I worry that a future generation of children will not ever bother watching the original Lion King because they'll say things like "Why bother? The 2019 one is the same, but it looks better." Next up we might as well do 3-D digital reproductions of Picasso that look sleeker than his old oil painted originals.
Also when you create animation of animals that looks that real and yet they're talking and singing and dancing it produced an effect that I found a bit unsettling. What's next, anthropomorphic cats in harmony?