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Film Review: MUFASA: THE LION KING
CGI was the wrong tool for the job and we all knew it, because we'd seen the result of using the right tool for the job.
Mufasa: The Lion King Director Jon Favreau's 2019 CGI remake of Disney's beloved 1994 animated hit The Lion King was a terrible idea—but it's hard to convince a corporation that an idea was a terrible one when it also grossed $1.6 billion at the worldwide box office.
It was a terrible idea because we'd all had 25 years to see the way in which conventional animation worked better for this story—allowing the animal characters to have personality and facial expressions when singing the classic songs, and softening the conflicts between lions so that they didn't feel like outtakes from a…
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