Favreau Fizzler despite star-studded cast.

Rating: 1/10 (9 November 2019)

Favreau hamstrung himself by trying to pay fan service to the original masterpiece and simultaneously shifting the story slightly so to make it simpler to follow. I would offer three critiques here:
1. It's too soon to remake this classic. Your audience is predominantly made up of people who grew up on the 90s Disney classics who are now seeing it with their kids. Nostalgia filter aside, this doesn't hold a candle to original.
2. I understand the want to change the story slightly and make it your own but this is both unnecessary and demeaning. The original contained subtext, innuendo and dialogue that carried the plot of the film. This remake spells out every action with painstaking dialogue, bludgeoning you with rafiki's lack of stick and constantly asking you "do you get it?"
3. Don't mess with the music!! The fact that songs are cut short, replaced with dialogue is bad enough but when the redub versions sound like the cast of Glee you know you have take it a bridge too far.
This remake needs to go the way of Old Yella. Very pretty cinematics but just needs to be put down.