Great movie, although lacking emotion

Rating: 8/10 (13 August 2019)

This movie is actually really good. Jon Favreau (director) had an impossible task when deciding to make the lion king live action because to many people, including myself, nothing can be compared to the original one because original is original. But i still think he did a good job with it. The story is almost the same, even though 30 minutes of footage is added. It's obvious that they put A LOT of focus on the visual effects and i'm definitely not disappointed in that because it looks incredible and the CGI is amazingly realistic. So if you're a lion king fan i really think this is worth watching
I actually love what they did with most of the songs, many of them I think turned out even better than the originals. Especially hakuna matata. And the new song "Spirit". WOW. Beyonce did a great job with that one.
But "Can you feel the love tonight"... Don't get me wrong, I love Beyonce and her voice is absolutely amazing but it doesn't fit this song. In the original song the voices compliment each other but in this one, even though it's a duet, you almost only hear her. i don't think Beyonce's voice work well with others cuz it's too strong and high pitched which makes it extremely hard to find someone that can actually compliment her. Her tone is over all too powerful for the song making it too "over the top" instead of what's supposed to be a beautiful, soft love song
Thr CGI is amazingly realistic but it's obvious that they focused way more on the visual effects and realism than the actual emotion of the movie. Even though that's kind of the point with realism, the animals aren't supposed to have any exaggerated facial expressions, i would've liked to feel a bit more with some scenes.
Opinions on tve voice acting

James earl Jones (Mufasa) did his job. Same actor as before so ofc i can't complain about that. Spot on
Donald Glover (Simba) was good too. Nothing special but i gotta say, he did an amazing job singing "hakuna matata". His voice works perfectly and i think he made it better than the original one. It's a shame i didn't hear him during "can you feel the love tonight" cuz that was basically the Beyonce show
Beyoncé (Adult Nala) should've been cast by someone else. Like, we get that you can sing but it's too much. The soft love song turned into a power-ballad. it's just too Beyoncé.

I think she should've just sung "Spirit" and nothing else cuz her voice was perfect for that one.

Chiwetel Ejiofor (Scar) should've been someone else too. He missed the sarcastic, dark, scary, deep voice of Scar that Jeremy Irons (former Scar) had which kinda destroyed the feeling a bit.
Billy Eichner and Seth Rogen (Timon and Pumbaa) were the real legends of this movie though. The sarcasm, the jokes and nailing "the lion sleeps tonight" (btw, i love what they did with the longer version of that song)

I love the "be our guest" part