Not up there with the original but really good.

Rating: 7/10 (20 July 2019)

Most of the movie plays like a wonderful documentary, everything is smooth and in good taste and I though they dealt really well with the scenes that were more cartooney in the original and thus tougher to make realistic, like the 'I just can't wait to be king' scene.
It was everything I was expecting it to be (a realistic, visually stunning version of the original)... until the epic chapter when Simba remembers his father in a cloudy storm. That's when the movie passed from a 9 out of 10 up to that point to a 7 out of 10 from then on. The new Beyonce song is not great and does not fit with the others, and she doesn't do a good voice over job. From that chapter on everything seemed a bit rushed and that beautiful moral of the story distorted or not emphasized enough.
In the end it could have been better and it's a notch below the original but kudos to the team. The work put into this must have been incredible.