The Lion King – Movie Review
The Lion King – Movie Review
Chris Stuckmann reviews The Lion King (2019), starring Donald Glover, Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, James Earl Jones, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Alfre Woodard, JD McCrary, Shahadi Wright Joseph, John Oliver, John Kani, Seth Rogan, Billy Eichner. Directed by Jon Favreau.
Chris’ mental breakdown at the end laughing while actually being concerned for the future of film is the highlight of this review.
LOL that reaction just said “holy shit, cinema is dying in front of our eyes”
he is laughing in pain, this really hurts him
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Hollywood is just doing what Hollywood always does Novapoid. Cash grabbing. Because people like to see what is familiar but is the most flashiest in respect to how they feel at a certain time.
The soulessness you speak of…applies to all these live action remakes, none of them have rewatchability
The Jungle Book(Jon Favreau’s other remake) is pretty great, I’ve rewatched it a few times, and found things to appreciate more. Which will probably make me more disappointed when I see this one, and don’t really care for it.
The only one I enjoyed is 101 Dalmatians (1996). All the others are crap.
When you group all of something together, that’s an instant ticket to overlooking outliers and being wrong. Jungle book, Alladin and Maleficent have plenty of replay value.
Our family adored the “Cinderella” and “Jungle Book” remakes. We were split on “Beauty and the Beast” and “Aladdin”. In each case, though, we were excited to have the opportunity to revisit these classics with modern movie techniques. So, yeah, Disney knows what they’re doing …
Godzilla KotM is very rewatchable, and there is a soul in it
Can you feel the love today
Let’s add a half hour to the movie but take out “Be Prepared”
The animation in the animals faces in MOWGLI was fantastic. Wish they went that route.
AND The Jungle book Fire_Element.
All those animals in mowgli were creepy as f
this is too photorealistic
Cumberbatch was awesome as Khan and scary af
The facial animations in MOWGLI was more relatable for me personally. In the end nothing beats animation but they should take the middle path. If they do photo real, animate the face a bit better like Serkis movie did. ?
They took the original and removed all the color, expression, and personality.
I feel like the 2016 Jungle Book was the best live action/CG remake I’ve seen in a long time.
MOWGLI
Zach Goff yep it was a great film
Yes. Basically because the original is just random songs, the actual plot is pretty meh.
And I love the emphasis on the wolves and family.
JimboJason it was boring as hell
@reallydude111 + it was mediocre at best.
Can’t say I wasn’t expecting the outcome of this lazy remake.
You’re the only movie reviewer left with his head screwed on!
Thank you for calling out all the cheap horror movies and transparent money grabbing remakes.
All movies are done for money grabbing. That’s the only reason studios can give chances to other little projects.
Chris is the only one, on You Tube I like now. He is honest and will review big and small movies. I appreciate his views. No one does what he does in that way.
Dan/Roth from Screen Junkies News are fair reviewers too.
YMS YMS YMS YMS YMS YMS
Ever herd of Jermey? Hell half of there reviews sound the same.
*Mufasa in the clouds: “You must avenge my death Kimba, I mean Simba”*
@Nautilus I didn’t know that, I haven’t watched The Simpsons in a while.
@KnowYourHistory I didn’t either, I thought the Lion King was the only “Lion-Hamlet” film in existence prior to learning about Kimba a few years ago.
Laaawl the shade
@Grace Dupre Wow. That’s actually really unfortunate. Bad timing I guess.
John Gucciterrez I wanna say it doubled down because of Atlantis being released and its having similarities to “Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water” or something (and weirdly not Castle in the Sky?), too. But it was a while ago…but on the plus side the Kimba resurgence got Kimba some attention, I suppose!
What woulda REALLY been interesting would be if they would incorporated elements/characters of the sequels or played around with the surprisingly deep lore of the lion king.
Y’all wanna see Lions with emotions? Watch Narnia, Aslan the Lion was way more expressive.
TyCena Royalty just FYI it would be the quality of the cgi that is older, unless we’re talking digital cameras, film has been super high quality for decades and decades 🙂
Dan Skyder sorry I means cgi for like fantasy, action movies
Yup. I mean, I don’t understand how CGI animated lions are expressing LESS emotion than a lion that was in a film made almost 15 years ago (albeit, Narnia is pretty great though…)
TyCena Royalty you’re good bro, just technicalities
I assume they removed the goose-stepping hyenas during “Be Prepared”.
Because… Of course they did. I mean, like, literally Hitler.
You mean when the animals literally March in sequence?
Yup. And if it at all resembles Hitler its gotta go. Unless we need to make a villain look bad.
Unless of course they did it in the past… To make the villain look bad. But it has feel to it therefore its bad.
“The Lion King 2019 was… The Lion King”
-Chris Stuckmann, 2019
See, that just wouldn’t sell tickets, friend. LOL!
Remakes are for bad movies to improve. Not make a mirrorimage of a classic. Disney has no soul $$
Willie Stroker ?? how is their political affiliation relevant? And u sound like u we’re gonna pirate it anyways. And if you wanna be consistent you might as well live under a rock because most of what you consume as far as film, corporations etc have the opposite political affiliation from you.
Weird Viking I heavily disagree. Just look at the suspiria remake, not necessarily an improvement just different, but both are great in their own right
Obviously. Disney is a corporation. No matter how they advertise their company, their goal is to make money.
And live action remakes make money.
Lion King is one of Disney’s wort films. Even Disney thought it would be a flop. A spoiled brat who didn’t listen to his father and got him killed. Then he meets up with some losers where he is taught play and be lazy. Then he tries to hook-up with his old crush, lucks out beating the bad guy and then takes over the kingdom, still being a punk douche. For what ever reason it caught on, probably the bad Elton John song. It is odd how bad/average movies sometimes catch on, Magic Mike, Meet the Parents, Avatar, Fifty Shades of Grey, Titanic, Crocodile Dundee, and As Good as It Gets.
@nick yes true if you find a fresh viewpoint it can make it interesting. But not shot for shot live action remakes. We the moviegoers are eating up this garbage. They will continue to sell garbage then.
10-20 years from now we’ll see a “live action” remake of Toy Story…
@Street fighter vs Xenoverse Geez dude calm your man tits, he was making a joke.
Street fighter vs Xenoverse easy on the lsd doses pal
Street fighter vs Xenoverse It’s called making a joke. Learn what that means and calm the fuck down. Literally, everyone makes this same joke, wtf is wrong with YOU? ????
Street fighter vs Xenoverse Like the Joker once asked, “Why so serious?” ?????
Would be amazing but no remake had been done right yet smh
Disney should make a live action remake of THE BLACK CAULDRON.
Now THAT I would watch.
They sort of are. It’s been in the works for a while. “The Black Cauldron” is loosely, I mean very fuckin’ loosely, based on two books in Lloyd Alexander’s “The Chronicles of Prydain” series. Namely “The Book of Three” and “The Black Cauldron”. That 1985 animated film not only was controversial with parents for its more serious tone, divisive among critics because of its two-dimensional characters, and a flop at the box office, but it also wasn’t a good adaptation of Alexander’s wonderful books. Disney wants to revisit “The Chronicles of Prydain” in live-action form and re-purchased the rights to do so a few years back. So… you will eventually see a live-action film called “The Black Cauldron”, but, in all likelihood, it will be more of a secondary adaptation of the source material than a true remake of the 1985 film.
They never EVER would. Remember the skull king getting his flesh ripped off? NO WAY. NO WAY would Disney allow that.
@Spiffy Gonzales PG-13, you’re welcome.
@realar makes me sad
“Why? What’s the point?”
That was verbatim the sales pitch for every Disney live action remake.
Actually in the trailers, Lions look so boring…. when scar talks… he barely moves his mouth…. i agree with ths review 100%
All these live action remakes don’t hold a candle to the originals and honestly just feel forgettable to me.