Here was an opportunity to re-think, re-invent, re-boot - whatever you want to call it. Instead we get a lazy, virtually scene-by scene re-make, but with LOOOOOADS of money thrown at the CGI. Some of that money would have been better spent on a script that didn't sound like breeze blocks knocking against each other. It was that clunky. When Beyonce (waste of money) says "Lions attack" I laughed out loud. Back to Beyonce (and she wasn't alone)- in terms of voice characterisation, the characterisation part of it seems to have gone missing. These guys should have listened to any Pixar film to find out what's involved in bringing a character to life. Where was Scar's villainy? Where was the hyenas' menace? In the original cartoon Poombah and Timon were what made me squirm most but here we could have done with a bit more of them. They provided the only parts of the script that came alive and I suspect that a lot of that probably relied on ad-libbing. I don't mind a bad film if somebody's trying, but this was just weak, poor and above all lazy.