Schyzo remake

Rating: 1/10 (1 April 2020)

First of all sorry for the CGI team, if anyone did a good job on this hot mess it was them.. Technically there isn't much to complain about.. But artistically.. Oh God where to begin?
This movie should simply not exist.. Why make a remake of a master piece cartoon that happens to be a musical and turn it to a realistic documentary style without assuming the songs they added to it?
Pick one, make it realistic or keep the original with a new polish, but you can't have it both way, that movie is a very harsh demonstration of that truth..
I guess for the ones that never watched the original they might think this is actually an OK movie, but as soon as you have it side by side in your head, everything become clear, it's a destruction of what made the original a timeless classic.
The characters are lifeless, that's the first thing you'll notice, they're dead inside for the most part.. Which is actually realistic, zazoo being an horn Bill looks perfect but his eyes doesn't convey anything anymore, same goes for rafiki and worse of all the lions (maybe scar is the only one that kinda have some expression.. Which is the dead inside expression he had in the original!)
When the first song (aside from the opening) starts you can see the style doesn't work, simba barely open his mouth, it's like he's not the one singing even, the fun is gone..
And you thought timon and pumba would change that? Oh god it's even worse!! Timon speaks like in the comic animal dubbing from the 80's,just snapping a dub on top of animals being filmed..
The famous Disney dubs, that would be great no matter what in whatever language? GONE!
How can you mess up the dubs for the first time while doing that remake? I saw it in English and French and they're both miserable, I couldn't believe it.. Was it the dubber's fault? Probably not, it's just no voice can fit those characters.. Just like adding a voice to your cat or dog would sound weird, well there you go, that movie was flawed by essence because the team couldn't decide on where to go with this remake
I would have loved to see a realistic version of this, no song, no voice even, something that feels more like one of those Disney documentary, that would have been something worth watching just for the quality of the cgi work!
Anyway if you're still pondering if you should watch this or not, just don't save yourself the nasty taste this will leave in your mouth, go watch the remastered version of the 1994,it's timeless, never disappoint in any way.