Don't understand negative reviews!

Rating: 7/10 (29 July 2019)

It seems to me that people who love the original animated version can't get on board with this one, which is really too bad. My husband and I took our 8 year old and her friend and really enjoyed it - WAY more than the original! We've watched a lot of kids movies with our daughter, but for some reason, we hadn't seen the original Lion King. So we watched it recently and none of us were impressed! We'd been expecting something great given everything we'd heard about it but we found it kind of lame, honestly. It felt dated and the music didn't hit home for us. (FWIW, My husband played in the Lion King orchestra on broadway for a year, so he knew the music from that and loved the broadway version) I thought this version had more emotional weight. When Mufasa falls to his death, it seemed like a real animal was dying and my heart was broken! I still wouldn't put this at the top of my list of kids movies, but thought it was quite good.