Cheap, chewed out copy of a great original

Rating: 4/10 (18 July 2019)

Just watched Lion King reboot. Friendly advice: don't make the same mistake.
Great CGI, but that's about it. No emotions in the acting at all. Even James Earl Jones blended in the completely abysmal performance of almost all involved actors (later in the text you will see which actor earned his salary for this film).
There is exactly one scene that made me laugh wholeheartedly and that was a complete breath of fresh air (which is ironic, because it involves Pumbaa). Everything else is as if you took the original, threw it in the washing machine, ran several cycles, and then took it out with all the colors washed out. Pale, anemic, unconvincing...
To sum up, if you want a good prince, call Matthew Broderick, not Donald Glover. If you want a good Mufasa, call James Earl Jones, but not when he's 88 years old and can barely speak. If you want a good English butler, call Rowan Atkinson, although I must admit that John Oliver did make a fair effort here. And finally, if you want a perfect bad guy, do not sidestep Jeremy Irons. If he was a good enough bad guy for a Die Hard movie, he is more than qualified to be a villainous prince.