Circle of Life

Rating: 8/10 (23 April 2020)

I feel like while we got a gorgeous cinematic masterpiece visual effect-wise, it's still missing some of the magic. The animals should have been given more expressions, to give a certain depth to the way they speak. Much like the story needed more depth, yet seems a little more distant than the original. I'm not even going to get into such weird errors such as why they chose to film "Can you feel the love tonight?" during the day... So why the 8*? Well I don't think anything made me emotionally cry out more than the legendary Simba & Mufasa death scene, which is just as - if not more - devastatingly real than the one in the animated motion picture. The last action scenes with the fire and water helping as opposing elements - not only look great on camera - but also give this otherwise pg rated movie a more serious, chilling, and Hamlet-like tone, that will forever make this piece iconic - delivered in either animated or motion capture format. And so does it become Disney's circle of life...