Review: 'The Lion King' is an impressive feat of CGI, but the voices are awkward.
Ever since 2016's live-action remake of The Jungle Book, it's been clear that Disney has been honing their CGI technology to generate photorealistic animal characters — just look at how the central computer-generated pachyderm of Dumbo outshone all his real-life, human cast members — with all that effort culminating in The Lion King. If you're not convinced, look at the director credits for both The Jungle Book and The Lion King — they're both helmed by Jon Favreau.
It's not quite nature, red in tooth and claw though, despite the fluid action scenes between the animal characters — primarily because there's no red to be seen. Being a Disney film, there's a distinct dearth of blood, which takes you away from the immersion into the African savanna of The Lion King. The animal characters are also always clean and pristine, which feels peculiar after intense escape scenes or the like.
The musical numbers are sung well, as can be expected, with the classic songs that you'd expect to hear like Can You Feel Love the Love Tonight? and Hakuna Matata . But without a dance element to them, it feels like an odd nature documentary set to music. Granted, it would probably be prohibitive and too ambitious to have a dance choreographer come in to choreograph dance numbers for CGI animals .
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