A plane ticket to Africa might have helped that movie

Rating: 1/10 (18 July 2019)

There is so much wrong with this movie. First and foremost: Animation of animals. The filming. But also: That soundtrack. And: The voices.
The animals have no equivalent in real life. Maybe they got the hornbill Zazu and Timon right most times. But if you ever saw a real life hyena or lion in the wilderness, you know what I am talking about. Lions don't walk like that, hyenas have a very different body structure and don't really look like whatever they used in the film (dogs?) and Pumba ... just walks like a small poodle.
Then: The filming. They should have consulted Richard Attenborough and his crew on how to film an animal. And even Disney knew how to do it in -The living desert-.
In some scenes, they got it right, but then the music kicked in. Classics like -Circle of Life- in the opening scene were just dull, in other songs like -Can you feel the love tonight- the only thing you feel is BeyoncÃ© in a sound studio, but no connection to the scene.
Finally: Those voices really put me off. Maybe it was the combination with the CGI, but Scar wasn't the badass villain he used to be and even John Oliver - man, I love your show - was somehow remixed in a weird way.