Beautifully made, but...

Rating: 6/10 (17 July 2019)

First of all, there are so many reviews that say "bad voice acting". I disagree.
It was great, albeit different from the original (which is not a bad thing).
What did bother me, was that there is no risk taken whatsoever. For this I removed a star.
Unlike the previous remakes (Dumbo, Aladdin) where there are new or changed scenes.
Now those scenes did not necessarily improve the film but they tried to make it somewhat different.
The Lion King (2019) is an exact copy of the animation film. With amazing looking visuals that is. If they did not butchered the amazing "be prepared" song it would also be an extra star.
The difference in all the songs is that these feel, by a lack of better words, very "Album/studio recorded", they miss a kind of playfulness that was in the originals. Also Beyonce's
vibrato-voice does not do the song "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" much good.
To sum things up:
Not a bad film.
Amazing visuals.
"Be Prepared" is butchered.
Other songs miss playfulness of the original.