Average but enjoyable remake

Rating: 5/10 (20 July 2019)

The Lion King is a mostly faithful remake with incredibly realistic cg and decent performances from an excellent cast, making it a watchable and enjoyable remake. However, everything this movie does well has already been done in a better movie, so can't really give this film the credit. The new scenes that are added don't really work and feel like they are there to pad out the run time. There are also really good and important scenes removed that shouldn't have been, especially as it's trying to be a very faithful remake. Hans Zimmer's score is great but it's the same score, so it was already great in the original Lion King.