After seeing mufasa's ghost dialog was gone I was ready to leave the cinema.

Rating: 3/10 (28 August 2019)

The lion king was my favorite movie growing up and I still feel a lot of that nostalgia watching it now.
Alright.. I was very excited to see this new movie. The trailer looked amazing.
And... the visuals were amazing. It was like looking at real animals and nature, stunning.
But that is that.. I left the cinema very sad. I felt like they butchered my favorite film and I don't understand why.
I mean, I get that the movie cant be exactly the same and I didn't expect it could live up to the expectation of the previous one.. but why would you copy some scenes frame for frame, word for word.. and cut or change others for the worse.
Let me go over it chronologically (Spoilers alert obviously)
The opening song was alright (not as powerful). Why leave out the stick of Rafiki? (but bring it back later and call it 'old friend?'?)
And I felt like Mufasa and Rafiki didn't share a friendship. which was very obvious in the hug in the original one, but left out here and replaced by a pat on the snout.
Everything good, but then the Hyena scene at the elephant cemetery. Absolutely awesome when Mufasa came to save the day, very powerful. But they left out my favorite hyena.. freaking ed!
Alright that is ok.. but now they totally butchered song of Scar! Be prepared!..
That was such a moment in the original film and it got replaced by shouting Be prepared about 3 times.. cmon... why?
So here is the trend right, if you change something there should be a reason right? Change it for something else or something better.. But not slackinly do something else,, then just do the original.
The stampede in the gorge. Very good! I would say it is better than the original one, I was on the edge of my seat and even gasped when Mufasa was hit by one of the wildebeest.
But then here it comes... scar will say his line "Long live the king...". Dude! Wtf was that? He said it without emotion and just kind of shouted it.. Scar is cunning, evil. He should say it that way..
Alright, next.. Timon and Pumba. Hilarious. It seemed they were the only two voice actors that actually got it. It was so funny. They were obviously proud to play the role and made something of it.
I liked what they did with the whole scenery and scenes there too. Overall a good adjustment.
Also when Nala arrives and finds Simba. Nothing but good things to say about that.
But now comes the moment...
Nala left, Simba is upset. And there is Rafiki. Going to show him Mufasa right?
OMG! I could cry how bad I was.. This was the moment I was actually ready to leave the cinema. I was seriously upset how they completely glossed over this.
There was no lesson about how the past can hurt, but teach you a lesson that way.
Why would you change mufasa's dialog? I mean not even change... completely leave out!
Where was 'You have forgotten me... you have forgotten who you are.. and that is how you forgot me. Look at yourself simba. You are more than what you have become'. At least that is what I remember.
Now it was just 'Go back to your place in the circle of life.' Serously! That was it! Go back blabla bye.
I am so upset about this.
After this I just wanted to go home and watch the original scene. Cmon guys.. again... if you change something that is fine... making the same thing is boring. But then do something with it, not just leave powerful things out and in other occasions copy things frame by frame. Then make the choices make sense...
The rest of the movie was alright. Also I was sitting back feeling annoyed so I didn't see it in as much detail. The last blow that I didn't like was scars famous second line 'I killed Mufasa'. No cunning in its voice. He just said it like a random guy on the street would say it without any context.
A good thing that they did was how Simba got back on the edge by biting scars face instead magically leaping back on it like in the original one. So here is the thing right.. They made this little thing better. They could have done that with other parts too.. but they didn't. Hence a lot of butthurt people me,, and the low score here on IMDB.
One last note.. Zazu was a freaking loyal super hero in this movie. He saved the lions on multiple occasions big time. He hit the leader hyena when she latched out to eat young Simba. He saved Nala from being caught by Scar.. but the lions never expressed any form of gratitude whatsoever. Whenever he bowed, they just kind of looked down on him like he was a silly bird. At least kind of muffle a 'thanks Zazu'. That would make it so much better.