The new Lion King remake boasts impressive photorealistic animation, but falls short in character development and emotional resonance, mirroring the style of 1960s live-action TV shows.
Never mind Disney ’s classic cartoons. Its dull origin story of Simba’s father is closer to those pseudo-storytelling live-action TV shows from the 1960s.Over the past decade and a bit, too many of us have had cheap fun wondering, not entirely fairly, how The Lion King became the biggest franchise on earth while leaving no significant cultural imprint. A better question might be: what happened to all the people who propelled the film of The Lion King to $1.
7 billion at the box office? Mention the title and nine out of 10 people will still think of the more traditionally animated 1994 original. director Jon Favreau aimed to bring Oscar-winning class to the project. Not that you can easily tell. This is an efficient enterprise with a hungry cash-box where its soul should be. The photorealistic animation does things nobody could have imagined 15 years ago. Serengeti looks like Serengeti. The crocodiles look like crocodiles. Remember when the digital animators couldn’t do water? They can now. And, of course, the lions look like lions. Too much so. Time was, when developing anthropomorphic family entertainment, Disney would dress the bears up in funny costumes and have them strum Sherman Brothers songs on the ukulele. Now the expressionless, often indistinguishable beasts look like supporting players on your average nature documentary. There is little character, no visible emotion, just endless show-offy technical competence. Beauty & the Beast review: On the way home, younger audience members re-enact scenes. There’s no higher recommendation. A Dublin scam: After more than 10 years in New York, nothing like this had ever happened to me. Patrick Freyne: I am becoming a demotivational speaker – let’s all have an averagely productive December. Never mind those classic Disney cartoons. We are here closer to the company’s live-action TV shows from the 1960s that played narration over live-action footage of cougars to create a pseudo-story. They have spent half a century getting back to much the same dull plac
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