Kayla Howard

My husband and I love this movie. We felt Pixar nailed it with every last detail. It tugs at your heart and makes you laugh with the tiniest, most unexpected things. The story line is well written and does not disappoint. By the end credits we were smiling ear to ear and have watched it countless times since. A movie that felt like the old Pixar films we all knew and grew up on.

My personal opinion is probably an unpopular one. As most I’m sure, I grew up watching the original, however The Lion King 2019 version was absolutely disappointing. So completely let down on how far they missed the mark. Sure, the graphics were in depth and very detailed and brought new insights, but they really really missed that “feel good” mark. Going in there expecting to feel all the same warm feelings from the original I was unable to find anything to really grasp and hold on to. It’s not even that they altered the story line horribly, it just felt so off and so far from the feel good original. I feel that Timon and Pumbaa were cast horribly, their humor was very tacky, over done and seemed to be too forced compared to their usual witty and charismatic selves. You lose detail when you remake such classic films and I feel that that’s the biggest problem with the new release. It lost too much detail along the way to be invigorating and capture the excitement one felt once before. I would describe it as cold. If you are going into it being excited simply about the CGI and the talent in that aspect, you won’t be let down. I won’t discredit the hard work there, but maybe because the film was more centered around all that is the reason it wasn’t so heart warming. More CGI...less of that Disney MAGIC.