This must be one of the biggest flops of the last few years, I can't even begin to think how much time and money went into this. The animation is undoubtedly high quality, but it's basically just a strive towards realism, no consideration given to the audience at all. The sound quality is generally poorly done; I think half the voices are pretty rubbish and it doesn't seem to sync up well with the animation. It looks almost like someone has taken a film and done voices over it in their bedroom.. it looks as if nobody communicated with each other.. There was no guidance.. The whole thing is a near-perfect representation of the original cartoon, but just in 'real' animated style, but the whole thing feels lifeless as many have pointed out, and you just wonder.. what was the point !

The only thing to be said for it, is as a stand alone film, if Lion King had never existed, and it was made by some independent film company that nobody had ever heard of then it would surely score highly as a 7 or more. But the facts are it isn't an original story.. so given this.. the whole things is a massive flop. It feels like it was made by a bunch of young tech nerds who have very little concept of the bigger picture.