I don't hate hyper-realism. It's a valid form of art like any other and I enjoy looking at it. The 3D modelers and animators deserve praise as they did an excellent job here. The expressions on the animals were very bad, but animators must take orders from their superiors so I'm not going to jump in and immediately blame the artists.

The color palette for this movie was bad. All they took away from the original was the sunrise. Everything else was boring to look at.

They tried to explain some things that had been left to mystery in the original, for example, the hyenas are ostracized because they don't show respect for life. I didn't really mind, but didn't care either.

The humor was copypasted from the original, but fell flat. In the Timon/Pumbaa diversion scene, they pretend to sing a Beauty and the Beast song, which made me cringe. Ed and Bonzai have been removed from the hyena trio. Instead there's not really a "trio" at all. There's one who likes to complain about personal space, and Eric Andre's best efforts can't make his hyena amusing. Shenzi has lost any humor and is instead a bland villain. She doesn't show any preference for replacement-Ed and replacement-Bonzai (whose names are apparently Azizi and Kamari).

The whole time I really just wished I was watching the original. This is another cash-grab, and it was obviously just trying to entice fans by waving impressive CGI modeling around.