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The Lion King - Movie Review

Live Action?

I am not sure Disney ever marketed this movies as live action. I had to watch one of the bonus features to determine there is actually one shot in the movie that is real and not computer generated. Jon Favreau is an amazing director and after the Jungle Book, it would make sense to give him this movie to remake. Let us not forget they brought back James Earl Jones to reprise his role as Mufasa.

Review

Getting past the fact the movie is almost complete create with computer animation, the movie keeps close as possible to the original movie. So much in fact, I found myself wanting to put the animated audio track with this movie. I have a good ear for voice actors and honestly found myself missing the original voice cast. Even James Earl Jones sounded old and not the powerful voice from the animated movie.

Was the movie good? Yes because it did not change too much from the original which was very good. Will the movie spark a new generation of Lion King watchers? I would be extremely surprised if it did not. Which movie version do I prefer? I would go with the animated version if you had to choose between the original animated and the new computer generated version. Two keep reasons for this choice. First and primary reason is the a majority of the original voice cast were so much better in my opinion. Second reason is that the animals show more emotions in the animated vs the computer generated which makes sense.

Rating

I would rate this a HD movie. It is worth getting in HD around $10 if you can because it is Disney. I was able to get my HD copy for $7 during a UltraCloudHD sale.

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