Visually stunning. But that's sadly it.

Rating: 3/10 (14 August 2019)

Everything that made the original so beautiful and memorable, this live-action remake lacks. I don't know if it's because I've watched the original so many times that I can not only recite the movie by heart but do so with the proper inflection, enunciation and weight behind the specific lines but the voice acting in the live-action was just flat, flat, flat. Flat and very robotic sounding with the majority of the characters speaking much slower than is natural in my opinion.
I think they tried too hard to match the original instead of going for some originality and well, you can't beat the original. So while visually stunning - I mean, the CGI is truly masterful in this movie - the overall voice acting failed to carry the emotions and story that is so near and dear to my heart.