I saw it twice on the big screen when I was 24. I thought it was as good as the animated movie at the time. That is until I played the animated movie over and over again and countless languages from Danish, Norwegian, Czech, mandarin Chinese amongst several others so I could find including Zulu. While seeing it one of those languages, I started to Love the Animated movie a lot more. Seeing it again in my late 20s and My experience was even worse than it was in my early 20s. I was half paying attention the whole time. The positives I would give are the visuals, Azizi and Kamari and their issues with personal space and the lion sleeps tonight. Everything else is 98% shot for shot and miserably watered down. Both scar and be prepared in this one are overall weak. If you want the best lion King remake, I recommend to check it out in Japanese. At least the people in that dubbing knew what they were doing and cared a lot about animation. Mufasa and scar sound like lions in that dubbing. The microphone wasn't too close or too far away for the actors to read their dialogue unlike English. With playing it in Japanese, I can at least pretend that it's a live action remake of Kimba the white lion rather than a remake of lion King. I feel the remake otherwise is just a shell of its former self.