Everything the light touches is CGI

The lion in Narnia had more emotion than every lion in The Lion King.

For me they removed too many memorable lines. Pumba getting stuck and screaming "she's gonna eat me!", Death of the King line is not in there. Scar yelling Sarabe! That's gone and they changed the Hyenas complaining to Scar that they won't hunt. They also change the line where Rafiki says "you're Mufasa's boy!". Like come on, these were so memorable for me. Also there seems to be a lack of passion to some of the scenes. James Earl Jones yelling Simba, or Scar telling Mufasa that Simba is down there! Just did not feel as impactful.

It’s like watching Lion King with all the fun removed

Mufasa: See Simba? Everything the light touches is our kingdom Simba: What about that shadowy place? Mufasa: Those are live action disney movies.... you mustn't ever go there

Disney should honestly just stop with the remakes and focus on new animated films....

They removed the best villain song ever.. "Be Prepared" Disney should stick to cartoons.

The talking animals from Narina 10 years ago look better and convey more emotion than the cgi in this film.

Beyonce's voice ruined the movie for me. She's the worst voice actor ever.

The final straw for me was the fact that "Can you feel the love tonight" was sung in the daytime.

Joe: I wanna hear what Alex has to say Alex: So.. Joe: *Proceeds to rant for 5 minutes with other Joe*

"Be Prepared" is one of my favorite Disney songs and they basically have it twenty seconds and then moved on. Screw this movie.

Alex is right. Nobody would put actors in a movie that don't show emotion. Why do it with CGI characters?

“Everything is worse” THANK YOU ALEX 👏👏👏

Who else was sooo dissapointed with the "Be prepared" song.... all it did was make me want to hear the original.. other than that it did hit me in the feels bad at certain moments.. :D although that was mostly due to nostalgia..

Rafiki scene where he laughs and says “ haha you won’t find him there, The king has returned” . It hurt my soul that wasn’t in there

If they're going to do a remake. Do Atlantis or Treasure planet. but I know that will never happen.

If you pay to see it, that's voting with your wallet, telling Disney to make more of these. With that said, I am skipping this one.

Alex is the most honest and rational reviewer to be honest. HE’s A REAL ONE☝🏾

The speaking animals in Narnia were believable. Why couldn't they get the same team for this film?

When the review starts with "The graphics are amazing" it's not gonna be good

Why remake something that's already perfect? Literally just an attempt to gain money from nostalgia

It's a remake of a masterpiece. You may as well try to attract an audience to see a print of the Mona Lisa enhanced with Photoshop.

I still don't see how a movie with nothing but CGI animals counts as "live-action" though. Shouldn't it be called "photorealistic animation" or something? I guess that term wasn't good enough for the marketing department lol.

Modern audiences need to ask themselves: is it more important for a movie to *look* real or to *feel* real

Hate to break it to you but the live action Mulan does not have Mushu. They left out the best character.

They rushed with the dialogues many times, that's what bothered me the most.

Here’s what I don’t understand right. So Disney wants to make money yeah? Why can’t Disney say to a movie theater. Hey why don’t you show the classic Lion King movie for a weekend? Because I would pay to see classic Lion King on a big screen again. Go to the movies. Have some popcorn. Relive a pretend rerelease of a classic movie. Instead they spend a ton of money remaking a movie like this... and then get poor reviews.

They cut the lesson of the movie. Rafiki saying shit happens but you can learn from your past scene. Really?

As much gruff people Llike to give alex, he's a voice of reason and perception that some hate to admit is true

Scar was the worst part of this remake honestly. Not even ASKING Jeremy if he wanted to do it was just a slap in the face to all OG fans.

100% Agree Jeremy Irons NEEDED to be in this film

Fun fact, the original writers of lion king were not credited

Nostalgia critic ABSOLUTELY hated this movie xD

100% agree about Beyoncé sounding like foxy from Austin powers.

No scene with zazu in the bone "jail" singing ive got a lovely bunch of cocnuts

I totally agree with the whole critic, beatiful, but this movie was unnecessary :/

No Timon and Pumbaa aching for some bacon song and no they call me Mr Pig!!!!

I'll give it a 6/10: -They did Rafiki dirty he was fun and cool, they made him boring -Beyonce ruined a classic song -New song sucked. -The Hair scene -The only good voice actor was James for Mufasa. -Scar looks weird without the black mane -They interrupted the Simba Scar fight at the end. With a Lioness vs hyena fight which was bad and drew away from simba vs scar -_-

Maleficent was the only live action remake I felt justified it's existence.

I was sorely dissapointed, it felt like a soulless, unemotional, inferior movie. I wanted to love this but even my daughter didn't care for it. On the other hand it did make us both want to come home and watch the original which is still the King!

oh wtf they don't have the lesson scene with Rafiki and the stick in there...that was one of the best moments from the original lion king.

I don’t understand why you would remake this and take out everything that made it good. Beside “gimme your money” of course

This felt like a Nature Documentary with a lion king dub over it

The movie falls flat on its face immediately for failing to get Jeremy Irons back for scar - The lack of his ability to produce a menacing character, even without facial gestures, is what sinks the film. Jeremy has a gift at bringing good villains to life - Hell, Lance Riddick would have been an amazing choice if they didn't want Jeremy, he could easily have pulled off a better villain than the actor they chose. The movie lives or dies based on Scar, not based on Simba and the other lions.

Technology both a blessing and a curse. Sometimes the old ways are better and this movie is proof of that.

How they gonna bring back James Earl Jones and NOT being back Jeremy Irons wtf. Irons isn’t even as old as Jones

i saw the movie and it has nothing to do with the original...it's like watching a pg13 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC documentary

The 2019 Lion King is more bland than a Joe Biden speech and yet it’ll gross a billion dollars

For all the black cast voicing, youd think itd have more soul

Anyone else thinks of Homeward Bound when Alex said: "it's just animals walking around with people voiceover"?

Kovu is not scar's son in lion king 2. They pointed it out with dialogs in the movie as it would be incest because kovu ended up with Simba's daughter in the end.

I bet they don't even have the "everytime I hear his name I shiver, MUFASA! ooooo Say it again!" joke in the movie. I refuse to see the movie after I listened to the soundtrack on youtube. They fucked up the best song from the original movie Be Prepared! Plus, some of the other songs especially Circle Of Life didn't bring me the emotion like the original one did. Fuck Area 51, let's pull up on Disney Studios for fucking up a classic!

I just got back from seeing Lion King with my kids and grandkids. Overall it was good, however, Scar was underwhelming and the song 'Be Prepared' was dull. Ed the Hyena wasn't in the movie, at least not how he was.

Dear Angry Joe, Stop interrupting others when they are giving their opinions !!

Scar by Jeremy Irons is one of the top 10 Disney villains he had the voice I knew this would mess it all up

This might be the worst of the remakes in my opinion. Beauty and the beast might have left me angry, but I left this film depressed. The flat voice delivery, emotionless CGI due to it being photo realistic, the removal of rafiki's it's in the past scene, and 2 hour runtime for a shot for shot remake that was only about 85 minutes. I just left the film sad, and my audience clapped at the end

Live action CGI, how does that work?

Joe :Alex speak. Alex: I- Joe: One second, I've got one thing to say and you can go. Joe: Blah Blah Blah for 10 minutes

Joe: Go ahead Alex. Alex: Well the.. Joe: Before that let me add ONE MORE THING (goes on to ramble for 5 minutes)

i felt i was watching National Geography with many narrators.

Disney just focus on other IPs...... go back to 2D hand drawn!

The lion king was a rip off of the Japanese animated film series 'Kimba, the white lion'.

Remember kids, if someone bullies you, attempt to kill them.

At least simba wasnt replaced with a strong and independant female version of simba! I wonder what name they would use? Simbalina? Simbany? Shelly? Lmao!

Me- finally! Disney is almost out of classics to remake! Disney- we are now working on sequals to the live action remakes!

A good point to mention is that all the songs were just the animals walking around, missing a lot of the spirit of the original for the same reason of realism. No animals stacking into a tower for Can't Wait to be King, no swinging from vines in Hakuna Matata. The theatrics that made the music special is all gone

The only remake I want is The Sword in the Stone

I wonder how they remade Nala's "screw me good" face lol. Probably didn't even include it.

"why remake something when the original film is perfect?" Disney: i like money

I don't think you can look at these films WITHOUT taking the original in account. Because if Disney took the time an effort to even make a sequel or God forbid an original idea...

The "Can You Feel the Love Tonight", wildebeest stampede, and "Be Prepared" sections were nowhere near the original

Disney's Star Wars - legal expensive fanfic Disney's Remakes - legal expensive bootlegs

Disney then: let’s make good movies because *we care* Disney now: lets make bad remakes of our good movies because we are out of ideas and want money

Legit hated this movie. They game of thrones'd the entire thing. Killed the movie with lacklustre effort.

In the words of Timon: And.... everyone is okay with this?! DID I MISS SOMETHING?!

I wish they went back to 2D animation for a bit. But we would have to wait for like 20 years once they finish remaking all their movies

Disney should stop remaking classic movies period

Joe should have a 2 minute timer running whenever he speaks. After it elapses, he MUST give the floor to someone else to speak!

If they remake bambi I'm done

The voice acting was shit what were y’all listening to. James earl jones didn’t sound like he cared the voice acting was dry, felt like they rushed through lines.

I got an ad for this movie before watching this, they really want to push this movie on everyone.

FFS joe let other people talk. As soon as anyone might have something to say more than 3 seconds long you cut them off

Judging by your review they might have been better just cleaning up the original and re-releasing it.

This movie is modern Disney. An animated corpse that looks like someone you once knew.

Everybody: Huh, I like Disney films I wish they'd make some more Disney: Well, they said they liked the old films so let's remake them. Everybody: No, make new films, not CGI remakes...

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It's an animated movie that refuses to take advantage of any of the strengths of animation

Disney then: Had great films but didn't have the technology Disney now: They have the technology, but the films are kind of bad

This is definitely the worst of the “live-action” Disney remakes. And I mean ‘worst’ in it’s true form, not some variation of the term. I really didn’t like this film. I’ll admit, the visuals and humor, plus Timon and Pumbaa, are great. Even hearing James Earl Jones voice again was nice. But overall, I was bored.

If they wanted to make this movie better they should have kept the good cgi but add more cartoony emotions to the animals

Casting beyonce is a nail in coffin.

Except it's not even a shot-for-shot remake, they left out the scene with rafiki and simba.

By Doug Walker. “Tale as old as time Stale as it can be Recycled and tame So much more the same Unfortunately Maybe just a change Singers that aren't fake But the suits are scared No one is prepared Disney's Bland Remake All of it's the same Never a surprise But you'll watch it all 'Cause Disney's got your balls At the critic's side Even what is new Makes no friggin' sense Really got it all The film viewers forgot What wasn't half as dense Certain as the cash The studio will rake Hear a second time Songs played for rewind Disney's Bland Remake Who cares if it blows? We're rolling in the dough Disney's Bland Remake...”

My two favorite moments from the original film: "They call me Mr. Pig!" and "Rafiki: Kung Fu Master."

Great review guys. If I may offer one suggestion to Joe - please stop talking over Alex and Other Joe. If you are so hellbent on monopolizing the conversation, why even have two other people accompany you in a criticism of a film? Just release a video of you critiquing the film by yourself. This is supposed to be a dialog, not a monologue. It is especially irritating when you interrupt the other two guys, when they are making their summary comments just prior to giving their final ratings. The point of doing a summation just prior to disclosing the final score is so that the speaker can express their thoughts, uninterrupted. When you constantly interject, you break the flow of their thoughts. This is especially noticeable with Alex, who, in my humble opinion, is the most insightful and analytical of the three of you. I want to hear what he has to say, but it is difficult for him to articulate his points, with the incessant interruptions.

Nah Scar wasn't Kovu's father. He took him in but he wasnt his father. Also I enjoyed Lion King 2 a lot.

They really removed the scene with Rafiki hitting simba on the head with his staff? Why!? The only reason for them to do that is to intentionally make the movie worse than the original. Why the fuck would they do that!? It genuinely confuses and angers me. I also heard the “Can you feel the love tonight” scene takes place during the daytime. Wtf?? The Lion King is my favorite animated movie and my favorite childhood movie, I was so excited for this remake as long as it was faithful to the original. I don’t understand why they would make these pointless changes when they do nothing but hurt the movie.

I checked out when they butchered “Be prepared”

Hey Joe I wanted to say I love you and OJ and I really love the Livestreams you guys do also dudes who you are with are awesome. Just one question you may have played this game or not but what were your thoughts on Spyro Reignited Trilogy?