Better than I expected

Rating: 8/10 (20 August 2019)

Look, here's the thing, I absolutely love the original Lion King. From the og animations to the great songs and so on, and I really thought that this movie would be a poor representation of the original. Especially from all of its backlash.
But... then I watched the movie and was positively surprised. I mean the animation was fantastic and looking at the process behind it and some of the real life easter eggs like an extinct type of rhino appearing in the movie as a tiny little tribute really showed that not only John Favreaux but the entire team behind the movie handled this movie with respect.
While talking about Favreaux and respect its clear to me and possibly others that Disney didn't want to give this movie to any director hence giving it to a director that has created movies like the first two Iron Man movies, The Jungle Book remake as well as Chef. I mean they knew that this movie is a beloved classic and they wanted someone to handle this movie like that.
And I mean sure this movie had some flaws but every movie does. If they would have remade any form of classic, then there is of course going to be haters or people who won't look at the new movie in the same type of way like the original. But thats likely because they grew up with the originals. I believe that Disney is making a bold choice with re creating classics, yet they probably apart from wanting some extra cash, are doing this to make younger viewers look at these classics while at the same time trying to compete withother more action packed superhero movies.
But hey maybe I'm just a bit odd for thinking that this movie was good, but in that case fine. I just thought that people are being to harsh on a company that has to handle a load of sub companies at the same time while having to respect their own craft as well as make money.
Well Hakuna Matata I guess...