Disappointing

Rating: 3/10 (30 July 2019)

Before watching the new lion king I tried to keep an open mind as I knew that it would be hard to live up to the original, however I was pleasantly surprised by Aladdin so I thought maybe I'm jumping to conclusions. Unfortunately It was a huge disappointment the only good points for this remake are the graphics and a few extra scenes with the lionesses which were a nice add on . The voice acting was flat, due to the graphics being so realistic you would think if anything the voices would be even larger as there is little visual emotion. Rafiki was not humorous at all and therefore lost a lot of his charm . Timone and pumba were probably the best but still at times the humour fell flat. Scar was boring . The Hyaenas were ok the lead female was a nice new addition going for a more sisnister character and less humorous, however the other hyaenas lost their charm they definitely tried to save a bit of laughter with a new take on them but this failed miserably . I feel that the script was all over the place it had many lines from the original with parts added in that either weren't necessary at all or they completely changed it apart from one line which made the lines less impactful it almost felt like they didn't bother re watching the original and just looked at the script took tiny snippets and thought that will do!. The biggest issue was the emotional response was just not there everything was over sang and my biggest annoyance had to be BeyoncÃ©'s new song in what I think is one of the most iconic moments of the original when simba is running back to pride rock the original gave me goosebumps and the music was perfect in the new one it's BeyoncÃ©'s own song spirit which doesn't fit at all and simba bumps into nala half way home like wtf ! Just no! . Lastly zazu and Marla accept that simba is simba far too quickly it's embarrassing! Considering they thought he was dead ! . I think that's the end of my rant really the only thing this film had going was the graphics and a few extra scenes that were interesting .