The Lion King - Movie Review (Part III)

 Part III The Lion King

This is nothing like the original bobble so that's again I circle back to what's

the point it's unnecessary it should never have been done Lion King is a

classic a movie like The Jungle Book you can do a remake of that there's already

been tons of jungle book movies The Little Mermaid I could see that too to

be honest The Lion King though like that's that's top tier Disney there's no point to it

and I feel like Disney just thought well we're doing the live-action stuff now so

we have to do the Lion King right I mean we have to do you really have to Bob yes

Jeff yes another issue that presents itself when you have these characters

look like photorealistic lions is that they are not showing the level of

emotion that the facial expressions show in the original animation and you can

tell there was an attempt to make it look as real as possible so during the

Stampede sequence and Simba sees what he sees and he screams no it just looks

like a lion just opening his mouth and and there's commotion there there are

fight sequences as you may expect between characters and they just look

like lions fighting about halfway through the movie I realized they

were going to change basically nothing and it would be a shot-for-shot remake

and so I just found myself watching each scene thinking how will they do this oh

they did it just like the other one except without the personality and it

just felt kind of shameless you know like I I tend to give studios and people

the benefit of the doubt I do I might be a little naive in the case of this movie

I would like to think that they thought well we can make a new version of The

Lion King and people will like it and young kids who've never seen the

original will like it which is probably true I mean I came close to hating the

live-action Aladdin but people apparently liked that movie so what the

hell do I know Aladdin but the cynic in me wants to say this is

a cash grab because the movie has no soul it just feels like control-c

control-v there's your new Lion King in regards to Timon and Pumbaa they have

obviously retained a lot of their humor they didn't do too much to those

characters in regards to stripping that humor from them but they've done it with

just about every other character all of the subtleties and the nuances that were

in the performances and in the characters in the script and the

original film seemed to have been stripped away here especially with Rafiki

Rafiki was always my favorite character in the original film I've loved Rafiki forever

and they removed so much of his humor no longer do we have this great moment

oh geez what was that for it doesn't matter each in deposit how do you cut out like

one of the most important character building moments in the Lion King like I

get that you want to do something new which is what I'm asking so now I'm

complaining about something that did that was new even though they just cut

something out but I'm putting myself in the headspace of the people who made

this movie.