Why i hated the new Lion King 2019 CGI remake

Hello and welcome back to a new video. So

I just wanted to share my thoughts on the

brand new Lion King remake, CGI remake,

that recently came out, and I saw it a few

days ago. That's why I went to the cinema.

To be honest, I actually kind of enjoyed

it. At first I thought I wouldn't. I was

kind of skeptical. I thought it'd be

stupid and boring, but I came out of the

cinema feeling fairly entertained and

fairly satisfied with the whole

experience. For those of you who didn't

know, I've actually seen Lion King before.

I saw the original animated movie when it

first came out. I think I was around 6 or

7 at the time. My mum and dad took me and

my sister to the cinema, Odeon in

Maidstone, and we saw it together. And

even to this day, I can still remember how

sad I felt and how much I cried when

Mufasa gets run down by the stampede and

Simba loses his father. It was one of the

saddest moments I've ever seen in cinema,

and Lion King is easily one of my favorite

Disney movies. I love the story, the

artwork, the characters, the music. My

main complaint about the new CGI version

of Lion King would be that it's too

realistic. It's very impressive how

realistic they got the animals to look.

They almost look like real-life animals.

The CGI and the graphics are very

impressive. But not quite up to my

standards. I won't be satisfied until the

graphics and the CGI look better than what

I see outside of the window, and until

that day comes, I don't think anything's

going to be quite up to my standards.

Now, the problem with the ultra-realistic

CGI was that, well, the characters had

no emotion, barely any facial expression.

Okay, sometimes they would growl a little

bit, or there'd be a slight smile, But

apart from that, there was no expression

in the eyes or the nose or the eyebrows.

They just look kind of like stuffed

animals that were brought back to life

using some kind of voodoo magic. The

reason why we love Disney animals so much

is because they were animated to look like

humans. They were given speech, they were

given expressive facial emotions that made

us— gave us the ability to be able to

relate to these animals. Animals in the

real world, they don't really have any

facial expressions and they can't speak.

The voice acting was very good, very

expressive, very professional. The problem

was that the characters just seemed so

lifeless and emotionless. It just— it was

very awkward seeing these very realistic

animals that had very little expression

speaking like humans. It was just very

disconjointed. I felt like A lot of the

characters didn't even look like the

characters. For example, Pumbaa is so ugly

and hideous in the new movie. He looks

like, like a boar, like a warthog.

Warthogs aren't very cute if you've never

seen one in real life. Pumbaa in the

animated original is a very lovable, cute

character, but he looks nothing like that.

He's got these disgusting tusks coming out

the side of his face that look like they

could impale Timon at any moment. And

Scar— Scar doesn't even look anything like

Scar. They should have made him brown with

a black mane. Yeah, they gave him a little

scar on his face, which was a very nice

touch, but the only difference between

Scar and Mufasa was, well, Scar looks kind

of scraggly and scrawny and skinnier, and

Mufasa looks more buffed up. There were

some moments in the movie when I couldn't

even tell which characters were supposed

to be which characters. For example, Nala

and Simba's mother. I couldn't even tell

which one was which because they look

exactly the same in the movie. And the

monkey with the stick, who's supposed to

be a very funny comedic character in the

original, he was barely funny at all. He

didn't really make me laugh. He just

seemed like an empty shallow husk of what

he was supposed to be. Where, where was

the coconut scene when he hit Simba on the

head with the coconut? I was waiting for

that so much. And they didn't even include

the coconut scene. And then during the

end, there's this battle between the

hyenas and the lions which never took

place in the original. I thought it was

kind of funny how they just made a lion

versus hyena war at the end. It was funny,

but it was kind of silly at the same time

because, come on, that's never going to

happen in real life. And the fighting

wasn't very realistic. I would have liked

to have heard some bone crunching sounds,

especially when Nala finishes off Shenzi.

I would have liked to hear a neck-snapping

crunch as she gets flung off the edge of

the cliff. I was also pretty impressed

with how James Earl Gray returned to take

back the role of Mufasa. I was a bit

disappointed that the original voice actor

for Scar— I think his name is Jeremy

Irons— didn't come back because he has

such a great epic evil-sounding voice that

would have been great for the movie. The

new Scar voice actor was okay, I guess,

and the Scar song when they sing Be

Prepared was a bit annoying. I don't know

how— what they did to ruin the song, but

it was getting annoying when he was just

yelling, be prepared! Over and over again.

I wanted him to shut up at that point.

Beyoncé's voice acting was just terrible.

Her singing bits were great since, you

know, she's a singer, but when she's voice

acting as Nala, it just sounded so flat.

There's one line she said that just It was

so lame. She goes, lions attack! It was

just so terrible. I felt like my skin was

crawling back inside of my face. Now,

apart from all of that, I actually quite

enjoyed the movie. The story is the same

old story that I loved from my childhood,

and the music was great, the singing was

great, the songs were just almost as good

as the original. They were slightly

different, but they were almost as good.

And I nearly cried again. I know, it's so

silly. I cried when I was a 6-year-old and

now I'm 30 and I nearly burst into tears

again in the cinema, you know, during the

whole Mufasa appearing in the clouds

telling his son to remember who he is.

That really hit me in the feelings,

especially now that I've experienced the

loss of my own dad. I think the story of

Lion King really hits you hard if

you've experienced losing a parent before,

or your dad before, because it just makes

you relate to the story even more than

before. It kind of feels like you're

Simba, and then you've lost your own dad

who's Mufasa, and then your dad's in the

sky telling you to remember who you're

supposed to be and come back to the Pride

Lands and to not forget who you are. I

think it's a great message. And it's

definitely something I feel like I can

relate to. I see a lot of myself inside of

Simba. For example, Simba loses his father

and decides to run away from his problems

instead of facing them head-on. I also

lost my father, and I'm also running away

from my problems, trying to avoid them,

trying not to face them. Simba sees his

father in the clouds, in the skies. When

my father passed away, the very next

morning when I looked outside, at the sky,

I actually saw in the clouds the shape of

my father's head floating above. And it

was kind of like he was saying one last

goodbye. It was like he was floating over

us, watching over us to say goodbye one

last time until he disappeared. And that

scene in Lion King, when I saw it a few

days ago, it reminded me of that and hit

me hard, hit me hard in the And even just

talking about it now is starting to make

me feel a bit emotional. Another

similarity between me and Simba is when we

ran away, we both ran away to lead this

hedonistic lifestyle. Hakuna Matata, no

worries. And I'm still trying to live that

kind of lifestyle. You know, I do my best

to try and avoid all responsibilities. I

try to avoid my problems without facing

them. For example, social anxiety.

Instead of trying to overcome it, I just

find ways to avoid triggering my social

anxiety. I guess the main difference

between me and Simba would be Simba

eventually goes back to the Pride Lands to

become who he was supposed to be, whilst

I, I still haven't reached that stage yet.

I don't know who I'm supposed to be. I

don't know if returning back to where I

came from is what I'm supposed to be doing

in life. I actually have no clue what I'm

talking about. One of my favorite scenes

is when the monkey follows Simba through

the forests or the woods or the jungle or

whatever it is, and then he says to Simba,

who are you? And then Simba says, I'm a

nobody. And then the monkey says, even a

nobody is a somebody. And that really hit

me hard. Sometimes I also feel like a

nobody, but you have to remind yourself

that you're not a nobody. Even if you're

not very important, even if not many

people know who you are, even if you feel

all alone in the world, You are still you,

and it doesn't matter if your viewers stop

watching, doesn't matter if people

unsubscribe, it doesn't matter if your

views from your videos drop from 20k to

15k, 15k to 10k, 10k to 5k.

You're still Daniel, you're still you.

I'm always going to be a somebody, and I'm

never gonna be a nobody. So in conclusion,

yes, I really liked Lion King, even though

there were lots of things I didn't like

about it. Overall, I had a good

experience. I felt very emotional after

seeing it. I enjoyed the singing. The CGI

was very realistic and interesting to

watch, but I don't think it suited the

movie very well, and the characters just

came across as kind of flat and

emotionless and kind of dull.

I'd give it a, a solid 5.1 out of 10.