Beyoncé destroyed LION KING for me sadly.

Most of the scenes were straight from the cartoon and brought back great memories but also left me wanting to see the original. With such excellent visual effects, I thought the characters would show more emotion at key moments. Sorely missed Ed's character and wished the hula song was used but am glad I saw Lion King in theaters...again 🙂

This all-too-realistic animated feature will impoverish, rather than enrich, those who watch it by asking less rather than more of their imaginations. That’s because its images have been stripped of the animator’s true art — daring, bedazzling designs that can thrill us with their surreality, and lift our emotions to hyperreal heights.

Joe Morgenstern

Wall Street Journal

Blessed with some excellent voice performances, this new King is familiar but still lively enough to encourage audiences to emotionally invest again in story they are already so familiar with.

Tim Grierson

Screen International

By and large, very few remakes, other than Gus Van Sant's shot-by-shot reproduction of Psycho, have adhered as closely to their original versions as this one does. Everything here is so safe and tame and carefully calculated as to seem pre-digested. There's nary a surprise in the whole two hours.

Todd McCarthy

The Hollywood Reporter