I am disappointed

Rating: 5/10 (19 July 2019)

MAY COINTAIN SPOILERS
This is my first and probably my last review on IMDB, but since The Lion King has been the most precious animated movies to me since my childhood I have to give this a shot.
PROS: As many of the reviews here have noticed the CGI was spot on amazing. There is nothing to add here, it was literal o.r.gasm to watch this and if this was a documentary about Africas wildlife based on The Lion King animation it would be absolutely perfect,... but it was not.
CONS: Since the CGI was so amazing the animals were basically, well just animals,.. they do not show any emotions (since they obviously can't) during some tear jerking scenes from the animation (after watching The Lion King for all of my life, every year I still cry at the opening scene, the death of Mufasa and the ending roar of Simba).
But the movie would be great if the lack of the emotions from CGI was the only problem. The music. They butchered it. They ruined every amazing song from the original. Every. Single. One. I don't know why they tried to improvise or renew the original songs, because they were perfect. The movies versions suck. Period. This was the tip for me. I am so sorry for Hans Zimmer, since he probaly tried to incorporate the original soundtrack into it, but the singing, oh god.... I was in pain. It's like Russell Crowes singing in Les Miserables or Gerard Butler in The Phantom of The Opera (no offence to Mr. Crowe or Mr. Butler, you are both amazing actors \m/).
The cast did not put any emotions into the characters. They were just blank. Simbas famous »NOOO!« at Mufasas fall from the gorge cliff was in one word,...pathetic. Also Casting John Oliver for Zazu is a no go for me. I sometimes watch his shows and I am very familiar with his »acting« and voice. He was not their best choice to my opinion. If you are doing something so monumental as The Lion King, the cast should be used to making great emotional expresions throught their speaking (like they did with the animation).
I was not expecting to enjoy the movie as much as I enjoyed the animated version. I was prepared that for it and did anticipate that the CGI and the realistic version of animals would take away part of the emotions that the animation could provide for the animals (and thus lowered my standards and went in with a: okay, this is going to be different). What I did expect from the movie, was a professional solid out-of-heart emotional representation of the characters through voice acting and an amazing incorporation of the exceptional original music into this movie.