I was excited for this. Trailers looked good. I was fine with most of their casting choices, minus Beyonce. She cants act for shit and they keep giving her voice over roles? At least if she is on screen I can be distracted from her acting with her looks. Not happening here. But its Lion King so they got my money. Just out of curiosity. So right off the jump the animated opening. Much better. So I knew from there it was not going to be good. Visually it looked amazing. They do such an amazing job with these movies. The voice actors did a good job for the most part. But the movie was just bleh. Nothing new or different. I enjoyed Scar's new version of Be Prepared. Timon and Pumba were the clear stand outs in the movie. Billy Eichner was fantastic as Timon. I didnt mind young Simba and Nala. But Donald Glover and Beyonce were fucking terrible. Did not enjoy them at all. I had low expectation for Beyonce and she was worse than I expected. Jungle Book is not the Lion King and maybe because of that they felt they could slightly tweak the story and change things and nobody would mind. This was just Lion King with CGI. Nothing new or different. it would have probably been the same if the new cast just voiced over the original cartoon. Then put that out in theaters.

November 8th, 2005 The greatest night in the history of GD!