It's ok, not fantastic.

Rating: 4/10 (2 August 2019)

This was always going to be a hard film to remake. The original was just so amazing. I felt like they missed the mark on what made the original so good; it wasn't the story, it was the colour, the sound, the fun, music, joy and sadness all at the same time.
What really did it for me was the scene for "Just Can't wait to be King". It was so vibrant and fun and silly in the first movie, yet here it felt so lacklustre and I just kept feeling disappointed.
Also terribly disappointing was the "Be Prepared" scene. It was truly epic in the original and it came across as a mix between an awkward poem and a bad rap, in a cave.
It did look very realistic, don't get me wrong. But Disney doesn't need to be realistic. Disney movies need to feel fun. Can we hand it over to the team that did Aladdin and let them have a go please.