Realism falls flat for a story with heart

Rating: 4/10 (3 August 2019)

The original film was brilliant, with animation showing humanized emotions to carry what is a story that has a lot of themes running through it.
Having also seen the musical, it too carries these themes and draws the audience in through amazing sets and the additional music.
While visually stunning, this version of The Lion King loses the charm of the original film. The main vocal characters do not have the delivery to breathe life into their characters, and even if they did, it wouldn't be possible to make the highly realistic images on the screen match the tone.
This should be a lesson for Disney that while remaking their classic films for modern times with modern techniques is possible, the journey of the characters and the emotions they are aiming to invoke in their audience are the most important elements within the story, not the fact that a CGI lion looks almost exactly like a lion. To Disney I say remember who you are....