The Lion King (2019)
Directed by Jon Favreau
Simba idolizes his father, King Mufasa, and takes to heart his own royal destiny. But not everyone in the kingdom celebrates the new cub's arrival. Scar, Mufasa's brother—and former heir to the throne—has plans of his own. The battle for Pride Rock is ravaged with betrayal, tragedy and drama, ultimately resulting in Simba's exile. With help from a curious pair of newfound friends, Simba will have to figure out how to grow up and take back what is rightfully his.
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Avatar and Planet of the Apes have previously boasted thoroughly impressive elements but The Lion King takes every bit of technology already shown on screen plus some new designs and seamlessly combines each element for a stunning entry to the Pridelands.
The CGI level is a technological leap forward for film akin to what we saw in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse in 2018 or Avatar in 2009.
From a technological and film-making perspective, this new version of The Lion King will surely garner awards and help move the process of animation and film-making forward in much the same way James Cameron did with Avatar .
With this new, impressive-to-behold digitally animated version by Jon Favreau (“Iron Man” and “The Jungle Book”) Disney rounds the oval itself, if just barely – the 1994 hand-drawn original with music and songs by Elton John and Tim Rice remains better; this “King” is a serviceable curio along the lines of John Cameron’s “Avatar” that will draw ire and admiration simply because of its bleeding edge technology.
When we think of George Miller’s glorious Babe diptych, do we immediately recall how the hero’s mouth moved?
But the choice to take an existing hand-drawn animated film and adapt it, rather than creating an original story (such as Babe in 1995), forces the filmmakers to tamp down the sense of imagination that marked Disney’s animation renaissance in the early 1990s.
Los resultados a veces han sido sumamente positivos –como lo hecho por Michael Haneke con sus dos versiones de Funny Games (1997 y 2007)– pero también han habido casos donde el esfuerzo ha resultado en algo desastroso.
But Bill Condon’s 2017 Beauty and the Beast, starring Emma Watson as the bookish Belle, is an exuberant delight, a love song to the go-for-broke musicals of the 1960s, like Carol Reed’s Oliver! and the Rodgers and Hammerstein made-for-TV Cinderella.
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She was creating waves globally as Lisbeth Salander in the Swedish film, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , which was based on the bestselling book.
The CGI level is a technological leap forward for film akin to what we saw in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse in 2018 or Avatar in 2009.
So what if the trailers make it look godawful, and the only time Guy Ritchie's work didn't make you want to throw something at the screen was his first “Sherlock Holmes,” thanks to that Downey Jr./Law chemistry?
Disney -productions—whether we’re talking about Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969) or the empowerment juggernaut Frozen (2013)—have long been considered safe, wholesome choices for kids, pictures that parents can feel they don’t need to vet in advance.