The potential was there but not meet.

Rating: 3/10 (23 July 2019)

It lacked so much emotion.
There was no emotion in the animation, no emotion in the voice acting. Aside from Mr Jones himself, the rest lacked the range to driver this classic home.
There were times when I thought the camera angles could have lingered on a little longer, like for instant the stampede scene, when the angle descends from the top of the sloap and the music rises, it felt like a ride you go up the hill anticipating a deep fall but nothing happens, they didn't drive it home.
The shot of Simba's paw swallowed by Mufas's the creaters could have captured the moment to really drive forward the immense overwhelm Sima was feeling but didn't.
Even when Mufas comes to rescue Simba at the elephant graveyard, there was no terror, no fear, no remorse in the cubs faces. And later, no gratitude.
Furthermore, Timone and Pumba was totally ruined, it felt like most of their dialogue was adlibed and poorly.
For me, they couldn't shine a light to the original. The song Can you feel the love tonight was over song.
It was good for nostalgia but it was very disappointing re Encounter.