Planet Earth with a Plot

Rating: 6/10 (30 October 2019)

Hands down this is the most incredible work of CGI I've ever seen. There are scenes I'd go to court and say were real, not CGI, but that's about all that's truly impressive. In fact, they took the realism way too far: the animals have zero emotion on their faces. It literally looks like watching Planet Earth except the animals talk. Fear, sadness, joy, it's almost non-existent on the faces of all the animals, which is too accurate for a movie with talking animals. Aslan may look dated compared to these lions, but he had bucketloads more emotion in a movie that's over ten years older than this one, and still managed to look insanely realistic.
It messed with me the whole movie. It was two hours of the uncanny valley and I just couldn't enjoy it completely. It was so hard to hear dialogue with emotion and see hyper realistic unemotional faces on the animals. We have the technologies, but I guess they thought making everything as real as possible would make it better, but it didn't. Doesn't even come close to invoking the same emotions as the original.