Beautiful visuals but lacks emotion

Rating: 3/10 (7 August 2019)

How can Disney completely lose track of its ability to entertain through animation? I can still remember a time when the animators would sit in front of mirrors and perform expressions whilst drawing each detail into the characters that were going to be on screen, it brought to life animals and even inanimate objects. Well sadly this is now in the past as Disney rewrites and undoes everything that made it great in the first place.
Anyway on to the movie itself....
Positives: Great CGI... in fact flawless CGI. Nostalgic nods to the original movie. Great performances from Seth Rogan (Pumba) and Billy Eichner (Timon)
Negatives: Awful and often painful performances. Did James Earl Jones get forced to voice Mustafa? No human emotion.
Summary: great CGI but lacks heart. Movie only picks up pace when Pumba and Timone come to the rescue (literally)