Had this just been a nature film, it would be great!

Rating: 5/10 (25 July 2019)

The animals are well photographed and you have some great shots of them, but then if I wanted that I would watch a David Attenborough documentary and learn something in the process.So you basically have dialogue over well shot animals who do not convey the emotions called for in the script, so the entire production is pretty boring.
This is what you lose when you take The Lion King OUT of animation and into live action. The original 1994 version of Lion King was illustrated by artists who actually watched real animals - yes and lions - move, and they tried to capture that motion in their drawings along with the emotions that the animals were feeling. I saw the original in theatres and I think that they succeeded brilliantly.
Disney has obviously got the technical end of movie making down. What they can't seem to do in the last ten years is capture an audience with narrative and acting. First they buy a bunch of franchises - Marvel, Pixar, Star Wars, and have been failing with them. Now they are trashing their own legacy. Even Michael Eisner, an untrustworthy suit and bean counter, knew how to deliver when it came to entertainment when he was in charge of Disney.