{"id":179735,"date":"2019-07-11T12:00:35","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T19:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=179735"},"modified":"2019-07-12T06:49:11","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T13:49:11","slug":"the-lion-king-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2019\/07\/11\/the-lion-king-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lion King Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_179752\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-179752\" style=\"width: 3000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/the-lion-king.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/the-lion-king.jpg\" alt=\"THE LION KING\" width=\"3000\" height=\"1749\" class=\"size-full wp-image-179752\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/the-lion-king.jpg 3000w, https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/the-lion-king-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/the-lion-king-768x448.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/the-lion-king-1024x597.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3000px) 100vw, 3000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-179752\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">THE LION KING &#8211; Featuring the voices of James Earl Jones as Mufasa, and JD McCrary as Young Simba, Disney\u2019s \u201cThe Lion King\u201d is directed by Jon Favreau. In theaters July 29, 2019.<br \/>\u00a9 2019 Disney Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>THE LION KING<br \/>\nWalt Disney Pictures<br \/>\nReviewed for Shockya.com &#038; BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten<br \/>\nDirector:  Jon Favreau<br \/>\nScreenwriter:  Jeff Nathanson, story by Brenda Chapman, characters from Irene Mecchi, Jonathan Roberts, Linda Woolverton<br \/>\nCast: Voices of John Kani, Seth Rogen, Donald Glover, Keegan-Michael Key, Chiwetel Ejiofor, James Early Jones, Beyonc\u00e9, Billy Eichner, Amy Sedaris, Alfre Woodard, Shahadi Wright Joseph, Eric Andr\u00e9, John Oliver, JD McCrary, Florence Kasumba<br \/>\nScreened at: AMC Empire, NYC, 7\/10\/19<br \/>\nOpens: July 19, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>John Badham\u2019s \u201cPoint of No Return\u201d is a carbon copy of Luc Besson\u2019s \u201cLa Femme Nikita,\u201d but there are qualitative differences between the two that should be obvious to people who have acquired a taste in film.  Similarly Jon Favreau\u2019s \u201cThe Lion King\u201d is a copy of Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff\u2019s 1994 film of the same name, and here again, the quality of the current version is obvious.  Favreau\u2019s version is blessed by a quantum advance in animation technology known as photorealistic computer animation which takes away the illusion of artifice in favor of rendering the subjects quite life-like.  You may be able to tell the difference between animals photographed at Serengeti and the same beings in which no real animals are used (or harmed), but the eight-year-old who takes you to \u201cThe Lion King\u201d will be stunned by the naturalness of all that the child can see.  One wonders whether in the future live actors will be automated out of jobs just as are the movie personnel who sell you tickets at the multiplex will have to look for some job that has not already been deleted by machines.<\/p>\n<p>Even without the new technology, Disney could continue the reign as the animation king of blockbuster films.  \u201cBeauty and the Beast,\u201d for example, is a familiar enough tale, yet when you watch it again you may find it to be fresh.  In the same way though the songs used in the current \u201cLion King\u201d may be familiar enough\u2014think of \u201cHakuna Mattata\u201d (what a wonderful phrase\u2026ain\u2019t no passing craze\u201d) and \u201cThe Lion Sleeps Tonight\u201d (\u201cin the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight\u2026\u201d ah weemoway\u201d).  When sung by a variety of creatures of the jungle it\u2019s as though you\u2019re hearing the songs for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you think that Disney\u2019s trope of creating animals that talk and sing like human beings is no problem, a hakuna mattata, or whether you believe that this way of conveying animal behavior is overdone, is a matter of opinion.  The way that the lions, the hyenas, the warthogs, a variety of birds speak our language does take away from their individuality since, after all, giraffes are not zebras, but such is not likely to be a problem for the small fry.<\/p>\n<p>As in the 1994 version, \u201cThe Lion King\u201d is about family and the importance of home, but those of us in the U.S. now having to put up with a circus of campaigning for top gun a year and one-half in advance cannot help thinking that we have a president and we have a number of people who would like to unseat him.  Similarly, Mufasa (James Earl Jones) is the respected monarch of the Pride Lands, particularly as he believes (unlike a few of our politicians) that what makes a king is not what he takes but what he gives.  Yet among the Pride Lands, his own brother wants him killed so that he can ascend the throne\u2014which makes this a kind of Shakespearean theater.  Mufasa\u2019s son Simba (Donald Glover as an adult and JD McCrary as the cub) has been readied by the king of beasts to take over when his time comes, and this is where the Circle of Life comes in, but Mufasa\u2019s brother Scar (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is determined not to let this happen as he has monarchial ambitions.  Scar\u2019s allies are a group of nasty hyenas (Florence Kasumba, Eric Andre, Keegan-Michael Key) who realize that Simba must be lured into a forbidden part of the kingdom so he can be killed and eaten.<\/p>\n<p>The villains are ugly.  Scar is easily recognized despite having the mane of his brother because he has been grayed out, the typical bold color of lions is desaturated.  The hyenas, whose dialogue is fast and idiotic, are as ugly as animals can be.  Comic relief is supplied by Pumbaa, a warthog (Seth Rogen) who adopts Simba when the future king has run away from home, and is never seen without the company of a Meerkat who pops on and off Pumbaa\u2019s head.  Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s voice serve as Nala, Simba\u2019s childhood sweetheart who insists that she could never marry Simba while Alfre Woodard is the voice of Sarabi, the Queen, and Simba\u2019s mother.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the 1994 version which is rated G for general audiences, this one features an MPAA rating of PG given the realism of the violence (animals falling from cliffs into fire, for example) and perhaps more disturbing for the young \u2018un in the audience, there is  talk of death which could be even scarier than watching scenes of violence and death, such as the statement that life is not a circle but a straight line.  When you come to the end of the line, that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n<p>As you can probably guess the visuals are splendiferous.  Favreau takes a story that so many of us know about from the original and from the stage version where it is still holding court at the Minskoff, and with photorealistic animation can make you think you\u2019re on a prohibitively expensive safari\u2014yet paying no more than $20 a ticket.<\/p>\n<p>Music is composed by Hans Zimmer, with songs written by Elton John and Tim Rice. <\/p>\n<p><strong>118 minutes.  \u00a9 2019 by Harvey Karten, Member, New York Film Critics Online<\/p>\n<p>Story \u2013 B+<br \/>\nActing \u2013 B<br \/>\nTechnical \u2013 A<br \/>\nOverall \u2013 B+<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE LION KING Walt Disney Pictures Reviewed for Shockya.com &#038; BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Jon Favreau Screenwriter: Jeff Nathanson, story by Brenda Chapman, characters from Irene Mecchi, Jonathan Roberts, Linda Woolverton Cast: Voices of John Kani, Seth Rogen, Donald Glover, Keegan-Michael Key, 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