Recycled, not great, but adequate

Rating: 6/10 (20 August 2019)

In the wave of reviving old animation classics to live action, The Lion King is the latest addition (as far as I know) after Aladin and with upcoming Mulan around the corner.
After watching Aladin, and Jungle Book, I had very high expectations...
Personally, with Beauty and the beast, Aladin, Jungle Book, Dumbo, etc there were always a few diversions from the original storyline, in example Aladin, Genie now has a love story, and female characters have been made stronger. Dumbo has added human factor and animals no longer talk etc. So there were times in while watching that I was thinking, OK it has been long time since I watched the cartoon, is this how it happened?
Lion King however seems like it has been copied frame by frame, with exactly same music, lyrics, same fantastic landscape etc. (It may have been a few changes, but not noticeable) I feel like this film was made, just to make the film into live action. I don't know why they didn't just use the final sound production from the original animation and just worked on the visual part this time, there was no need to hire new voice actors, singers etc.
There are many reviews targeting Disney's greed and ways to make money, agree, but it's the users who fall for it, no one is forcing kids to exclusively watch Disney movies.
I enjoyed the film in cinema with my kids, I was probably their age when I watched the original, the original made life-time memories, the live action however, not for me...