The original The Lion King from 1994 is my favorite animated Disney movie. I must've been 10 or 11 years old when I watched it, and it was the first movie that made me cry. The new Lion King also made me cry, but for entirely different reasons. It is, no joke, one of the worst movies I have ever seen. I give it 2 stars, because at least a lot of animators put a ton of work in it. Too bad the direction was completely misguided though, and everything else, the acting, the music, the pacing and editing, piles up to result in a completely farcical mess.