Better than I thought

Rating: 6/10 (23 July 2019)

Although I see this remake as an unnecessary move and had plenty of prejudgement about how good it can be, it actually was good enough. It's nothing like the animation one obviously but in its on way, it's enjoyable. I didn't find it boring at all even though most of the comments said so and most importantly, it was worth watching it at the theatre. All of the bad reputation it draws is mainly because of how bad the other live-action remakes were, so don't let it affect your opinion.
Some parts are directly taken from the animation, some parts are changed; voice acting is better than I expected, camera work and CGI is incredible and together they form an enjoyable movie.
Criticizements towards the emotions in the movie are mainly accurate as some scenes are emotion-wise less appealing but after all, these are animals talking and it's actually a live-action movie. There's no reason to expect the same mimics and same emotional scenes like there was in the animation version. And it's not like every scene lacks emotion or anything.
Generally speaking, it was better than I expected. I won't recommend it as a must-watch movie but if you do it, you won't really regret it assuming you don't have any negative bias towards it.
6/10.