*{Timestamps}* 00:00 - Disney getting rewarded for their tom-fuckery 00:09 - this is basically a Marvel movie for Jon Favreau 02:46 - the stampede scene 07:46 - Jon Favreau’s hatred towards 2D animation 08:48 - Adam’s pitch for Toy Story 5 09:11 - ugly ass skies are apparently realistic 14:29 - the FBR normies suckling from the supple yet dried up gland sacks of the all-loving Mother Disney 14:51 - the wh0ring-themselves-out interviewers 15:17 - Chronicles of Narnia (go fuck yourself Jon) 16:52 - an unfortunate photo of Jon 17:15 - what would Adam do if he met Jon in real life? 18:28 - _milk a fish_ 19:01 - maybe if Jon stopped having his cake and eating it too, he wouldn’t be as lardy as he is today (& more talented probably) 20:23 - Adam’s got a lot to unpack 22:39 - _well this says a lot about the animators (& probably says a lot about Jon himself)_ 23:42 - “deh he izz” 23:58 - _hmm suspicious_ 24:38 - Nala & Simba reunion 28:54 - "I Just Can't Wait to Be King" (a pretty bad case of same face syndrome) 29:40 - when the singers suck just as much as the non singers… 30:38 - the awful music composition & editing in “The Circle of Life” 39:07 - Jon can’t even succeed at what he wants 41:04 - *DUDE RAFIKI* 42:05 - *YOU ARE A LIAR HANS* 42:13 - credits *YMS Highlights Pinned Comment:* Sorry about the number of subs around the stampede scene. Someone gave out a bunch of gift subs and it only shows them one at a time.
@@agooddaytorespawn57 I hate the React videos because there's always one or several of the actor---totally real people, over reacting and impressed or bewildered by anything and everything
Not only does it not make any sense I can't think of a 2d movie of recent time that wasn't a new stand alone thing. How could you be nostalgic for something thats completely new?
I think he was referring to feature films and not media in general. It could be argued for Hollywood that they're maybe a bit averse, (though it could be argued they don't do _anything_ that isn't a safe bet...) but there are plenty of great 2D feature films coming out elsewhere... If he meant Disney specifically ... maybe? I'm not familiar with their newer stuff because I don't like supporting trash. They definitely haven't done that much 2D compared to before when it was basically all 2D. I guess hiring real artists is hard... for Disney ... somehow.
Remember how distraught Simba looked when he saw his father's corpse? Desperately trying to wake him up and not being able to comprehend his death. Able to see every emotion he's going through painted on his face? Now see how Simba is just a cgi lion here and can't emote because he's a cgi lion and has to look like a lion and not a cartoon despite everything being animated.
The shot of him reacting to the stampede is pretty much gone too which still is so effective, he doesn’t even look like he’s running away or scared in the 2019 version
@@asthmaticpathic Original Simba: look of fear and shock clear on his face upon seeing the wildebeest stampede heading towards him. 2019 Simba: blankly stares at the stampede, showing little to no emotion on his face like "Oh. There's a stampede coming. Guess I should run now."
Is it just me or did Mufasa's death in the remake resemble that famous meme recreation of the scene with video game model rips? The one where Scar's neck stretches out to meet Mufasa and it all purposefully janky and inept. I remember when Mufasa fell he was frozen in a T-pose and bounced off the environment like a beach ball.
The original: "Mufasa! Quick! Stampede in the gorge! Simba's down there!" "Simba! 😨" The remake: "Stanpede in the gorge! Simba's down there!" *"sImBuH?"* 😐
To be fair, Japanese studios are too scared to use 3D. There's some 3D anime, sure, but the medium is more delegated to random background people and it almost always looks disgusting. Watch Baby Steps for some of the worst 3D ever. Beastars and the studio that made it is one of the few Japanese studios that even put effort into 3D and it's kinda sad.
The Lion King: [is a gorgeous love letter to Africa] Jon Favreau: ".... Nah, Africa's not like that at all. It's all like, dirt and ugly animals, right? I'll make this movie better by bringing it to REALITY. A taste of what Africa is REALLY LIKE will make up for any atmosphere lost in the remake!! Don't even bother sending somebody to take pictures. I saw Africa in a movie once, I know what I'm talking about"
@@espirituneutro9696 Every director makes mistakes in their careers. The Coen Brothers made The Ladykillers, Stanley Kubrick made Fear and Desire, Peter Jackson made The Hobbit Trilogy, etc. Every director in hollywood has at least one fuck up in their career, and we shouldnt completely hold them against their one fuck up.
Glen Keane spits in disgust Andreas Deja spits in disgust James Baxter spits in disgust Sylvain Chomet spits in disgust Tomm Moore spits in disgust ....Actually, just substitute with any great 2D animator past and present and let's see how long the list goes
At least that scene was well played - you weren't expecting Frodo m-fucking Baggins in Spy Kids 3 and it was in a moment of dire need for the heroes. Here it's Mufasa checking on why his brother didn't come to Simba's baptism.
I mean The Guy was talked up for the entire movie up to that point so it makes sense that there would be a fanfare when he finally shows up. Also what Ridori said.
“Jon, you don’t even know why the movie is good”. This is spot on. Jon Favreau knows it’s critically acclaimed and made a ton of money but doesn’t really get it. I seriously doubt Jon Favreau is a huge fan of the original like he claims. This was not a passion project for him, period. I see no love for The Lion King in this remake.
They chose him as a director because his name is marketable since he worked on the Avengers. Literally no other reason, that's how Disney does all the casting for these soulless cashgrabs
I can’t really blame Favreau too much, he kinda needed that job for Mandalorian’s sake. Still wished he would at least try to make this movie not garbage.
Every time I hear Mufasa talk in this movie I just want to give James Earl Jones a glass of water. I know it’s just that he’s pushing 90, but he always sounds like he’s thirsty in this remake.
It's weird because he did a few interviews when the remake came out and his voice didn't sound that bad. It's noticeably older, but he still has a bit of a twinkle in his eye and warmth in his voice that wasn't there with new-Mufasa's voice.
As an animator, favreau’s comments about 2d animation being only for nostalgias sake pisses me off. not only is it incredibly stupid, but it shows he has absolutely no idea what he’s talking about when it comes to animation.
Animation is a valid medium for making art, and it needs to be respected. It (ironically) reminds me of people shitting on digital art in favor of the old school traditional kind. Both debates are stupid. Art is art when it means something.
JAWWWWN when his child gives him a drawing they made at school and he throws it in the trash because it's shitty 2D crayola and not glorious VR-utilised motion capture CGI
@@comixproviderftw_02 It may have been the case that the people recording (The Fine Bros.) directed those guys to overreact, but to me they seemed pretty genuine. It's honestly just up to interpretation, but that all seemed like them genuinely falling hard for the nostalgia bait and getting excited about those "realistic" settings without thinking too deeply about what they actually liked about the original film.
It is so ironic that Jon Favreau expressed realism was paramount and that's why the skies look like garbage. Currently, as I face my window with the most idealistic storybook blue sky imaginable as it might turn into the most beautiful sunset later this evening (I live in PA btw and I can honestly tell you Africa's probably 10 times as pretty)
As an animator it’s really fucking hard to explain exactly why the lion king is the best 2d animated film Disney has produced. There’s just so much consistent groundbreaking work going on every second. The complex understanding of expressions IN ANIMALS, the deep and fluent movement in each and every animal in this movie is unique yet uniform, the background art, the voice acting, the music, the sophisticated color pallet, the sheer amount of trust every animator had put into each other, the expressive storyboarding that gave this movie the skeletal structure to succeed, the camera work, I could literally go on about this movie for hours.
Everything in the film is phenomenal and I still think I love the colors the most. Except in the one short shot of the crocodiles singing, that looks funky (though tbf they changed it for the later releases for some reason)
i do love the lion king, but i wanna mention that there are at least a few other disney animated movies that i think are on par with the film regarding animation and style! like tarzan, lilo&stitch, hunchback of notre dame, brother bear, fox and the hound, and probably several others i haven't thought of. the lion king though is absolutely one of the most thematically serious films of the disney lineup. so much could have gone wrong, yet it turned out so damn incredible. it's got so much going for it that i want so badly to meet the folks who worked on it; the lion king is one of many movies that shaped my childhood and influenced my art style
There he is... There he is... There he is... There he is... There he is... There he is... There he is... There he is... There he is... There he is... There he is... There he is... Have fun son... There he is... There he is... There he is...
The voice of Scar sounded like some intern that likes to wow people with his Jeremy Irons impression, but doesn't realize it's actually terrible and sounds nothing like him. And that's still a more fitting voice than Chiwetel Ejiofor.
@@YMSHighlights not only that but the entirety of that world's story takes place while the Pride Lands are still barren and desolate, and its still more compelling than the film because at least it ends with you getting to fight a giant fuck off monster.
Okay I think we've gone to far, I think u forget that level my friend lol we have reached maximum hyperbole lol, the movie doesnt look good dont get me wrong but these are like nostalgia critic comparisons
Maybe at one point all the animals had buttholes and then an exec saw it and was like "man this is weird you gotta remove the buttholes" and then an intern went through and removed all the buttholes but he forgot the one in the shot with simba and nobody noticed
Definitely what happened. An exec went through it with a notepad and a red marker and told someone what to fix. Either they changed the texture and rerendered certain scenes, or they painted it out using some sort of tool. I reckon the artist put it there on purpose; it's like the story about the marketing guy who put a duck in the promo material he's struggling to approve and management gets so hooked on the duck that they don't criticize much else, and the main feedback is to remove the duck.
The most striking thing about this remake is how much I realized the traditional animation of the original is able to make all the environments larger than life and epic. The sheer scale of things like pride rock and the gorge are able to be exaggerated and feel huge in a way that only artistic expression can, and it’s such an important element to the film. In the remake everything feels so boring and small, and all the dramatic mise en scene is completely lost. What a waste.
You are 100% correct... and yet then I watch something like the Planet Earth documentaries and there you ALSO manage to get that sheer sense of scale because the film crew actually knew what they were doing with their cinematography and how to frame things and which lenses to use to really bring the environment to life. Sometimes in the most hostile filming environments. And then I throw up my hands and go "So what exactly is the excuse here???"
Everything is way slower, too. The Stampede in the original is so damn tense because of the speed of the wildebeests, and Simba can barely keep ahead of them. Remake Stampede slows down to a light jog at best, and theres no tension when you can just yell "RUN FASTER".
I didn't remember it that much, but I've heard it's still interesting (not the sequel, wtf is that). Isn't Surfs Up kinda like documentary? Wait... So Lion King 2019 is literally just Disney version of Surfs Up? Hhmmmmm, suspicious
@@Whiteboykun it has nothing to do with the review, it's just a twitch notification that shows new paying subscribers. but other twitch streamers keep it smaller and in the corner
@@emanibrahim5356 I know what it is and I know what twitch is. I'm saying maybe at some point adam thought 'keep or leave? ehh leave, it might add weight to this review/commentary being transformative' the same way his camera & criticism count as transformative. That said the cool cat shit is annoying as hell so I dipped after like 15 minutes.
Highest-grossing “a-N-i-M-a-T-e-D” film... edit: Sorry I meant highest-grossing documentary film... Editing my last edit: My apologies Mr. Favreau What I REALLY meant was highest-grossing live action documentary film sponsored by HTC Vive
Also, in the remake they added a backstory to Scar, when he got his scar by attempting to take Mufasas throne from him. So all the lionesses are not aware that this crippled lion tried to outhrone Mufasa in the past, and dont think that all of this could be a trap set up by Scar. And also, they didn’t ask Zasu, who literally has been told by Scar that he is going to help him. Doesn’t make any sense.
So they turned remake Scar into Starscream? Keeps doing all these murder attempts until he finally succeeds at his murder attempts and everyone else is just like Shocked Pikachu face.
This!! And I don't know if this was an intentional change (or just a result of the terrible voice acting), but in the remake Scar came across a lot more hateful and sinister. His voice could barely hide his contempt for Mufasa in that opening scene. Even when he says he'd never dream of challenging Mufasa, you don't believe it because he sounds so angry when he says it, like he's just WAITING for a chance to prove Mufasa wrong. At least in the original, Scar was portrayed as more of a charming weasel, so Mufasa views him as a minor nuisance rather than a genuine threat. When he says he'd never dream of challenging Mufasa, he rolls his eyes as if Mufasa is an idiot for even thinking Scar wants to challenge him. And the animators did a really great job of portraying this in his body language - when he speaks to Mufasa in that opening scene, his legs are bent and his body is low, so he is looking up at Mufasa, intentionally portraying himself as weak and small. None of this is in the remake.
@@belletho6098 It sounds like they were trying to do something ""different"" with Scar so it's not just the same as the original. But does sound like a matter of 'It wasn't broken, so why did you fix it.'
@@emilystewart6175 Yeah, it did seem like they wanted Scar to be more blatantly sinister in the remake....but they didn't add enough of their own unique flair to the character, so he came across as a generic villain with no interesting quirks that stood out (at least, in my opinion). I remember Scar from the original because he was a sniveling sneaky asshole with a cool voice, and I remember Scar from the Broadway musical because he was a loud bombastic egotistical asshole with an awesome look....but Scar from the remake was just...so unmemorable :(
I’m happy Adum is getting a lot of subscribers. But, I can only listen to Eric Estrada drunkenly saying “there he is” before I become clinically insane.
"He probably didn't do a scouting trip." Isn't there a direct quote where he says "There's so much on the internet already, I just had the animators look at animal videos."
The animators for the original movie literally brought in lions to observe and sketch. You know, people that actually care about what they’re working on
I’m honestly baffled as to how this movie made so much money. I get that nostalgia is a factor, but these designs are so uncanny. It’s really hard to express emotions out of realistic looking animals and not make it look the slightest bit off. I’m so confused as to how so many people would watch this documentary style hamlet based story with less emotion and character than the original, to the point that it’s now the highest grossing ‘animated’ movie of all time.
"Marketing is the greatest invention of the 20th century" Beyonce a bunch of other famous people and a huge Disney movie mixed with the same hype as Avatar had or Titanic and you have big money movie because at the end of the day most people consume without thinking hence why people smoke drink alcohol do drugs or watch crappy movies it's all laziness because "thinking is hard".
A lot of people, and I'm guessing a lot of families, just don't care. They know it's Disney, it's hyperrealistic, it's Lion King, and they've got celebs. That's enough.
I personally dont understand how people look at this movie and go 'Wow!! It's so good!!'. I tried to watch it off Disney plus to see what the hype was about around it and I couldn't even get past Scar's introduction scene before turning it off and watched the original instead. It is so painful to watch, I comment Adam for being able to get through it multiple times.
@@jankbunky4279 That's one thing that I've found extremely accurate. It's kind of crazy how much people don't care about movies now and just watch trash because hey, it's a movie. The bar has been so low for so long that people's standards have been dropped so low. I've talked to my friends about movies and they wonder why I get so angry about movies nowadays and I have a hard time explaining it to them because to them it's "just a movie".
I seriously can’t wait for the full review. I never get tired of seeing people tear the 2019 version to shreds. I’m gonna dedicate a whole evening to it.
I've dedicated too many evenings to it already. I refuse to watch the Disney remakes, they're so disrespectful. Alladin and Mulan were my favorites growing up and it just makes you so sad to see the way they were pimped out.
I always enjoyed how in these older Disney movies where the music and animation synchronize beautifully. Yeah, the wildebeest stampede in the 94 film is a great example of that. One of the best scenes in a Disney film, maybe even film as a whole!
"Anything 2D is being made for Nostalgia." Then why doesn't Disney make more 2D films!?! I'd happily pay for more Disney 2D features over this schlock!
The thing that I immediately realized when watching the movie was that everything is animated as if it's on a track. All the models are simply functioning by what they're "supposed" to do, not actually doing it because they're alive. It's like watching a puppet show but all the strings are more visible than the actual puppets.
I really learned a big element on why the music felt so much flatter to me. I never understood it before, but the feeling was always there. And his explanations on music theory made so much sense to me.
Jon “the skies look like shit because it's more realistic” Favreau says something utterly clueless? I'm shocked. The sad part is, that mentality seems really prevalent in film making right now. They see the money is in CGI eye-candy, and when people complain about the lack of a place for 2D animation there's this implication of “you're living in the past, 2D animation is out of vogue now. This looks better.” It's SO frustrating. Sure, the technology is impressive but I haven't seen a CGI movie look even HALF as good as Akira does. Even worse, they ignore the success of movies like Your Name as being “nostalgia.” I fucking hate it.
5:02 Original Mufasa: "Oh no, my son is in danger. I need to go save him before the worst could happen." D:> Remake Mufasa: "Oh my fucking God, what did my son get into now?" ]:
Hearing someone say; "I don't think he's a bad person" in the context of that person making a creative decision about an established IP that the individual saying it cares about is so refreshing.
The fact that Disney is in a dire financial situation with CoVid shutting down the parks and Disney+ possibly failing brings me so much joy. This company either needs to be put down or seriously reevaluate its current business model.
James Earl Jones: "Could we do another take? I don't think that sounded right." Jon Favreau: "What do you mean? It's perfect! We're all doing this entire film in one take!"
You can really feel ALL of the emotions in the original movie. The colors, the animation and the music just really make it a grander experience. And I dont even really like the Lion King. But the remake just fucks all of that and just makes a dryer and "realistic" toneally weird experience.
Vincent It was probably because all the night scenes look like shit and not particularly romantic but it would be better to be set at night anyway, to be honest. The environment already looks dry and boring and the characters have no chemistry. At least place it at night. Can you feel the love tonight? Nope, it’s day time! Love is where they are? Who, original Simba and Nala?
I don’t think other actors/performers in the industry care that much about her, it’s just the press that idolize her and you have to go along with it or else you’ll get roasted
No….. the problems with animation, writing, etc. stem from processes that were in motion before Beyoncé was even cast. The massaging of her ego did not actually contribute to how poor the movie was, just how annoying the media approach was to the film.
The thing about the sky that gets me is I've taken photographs of some really beautiful skies. One has light poking out of the clouds and it looks like a biblical painting. When the sun is just right, it can be the most beautiful thing!!
I just get so sad every time I see the 3D movie's footage. They sucked out all the color and expression and LIFE from it. It legit feels like gaslighting for them to continually put down the original and tout the new as superior.
I went and saw Lion King 2019 in the theatre like a week after it came out and while the theatre was less than half full, half of the audience that came to see it walked out before it ended
Dang, every time I hear a glimpse from the original Lion King music I genuinely get chills and when there's music from the 2019 dOcuMEntARy version I feel like I want to vomit
6:29-6:46 One could ask why Zazu didn't do that in the original film, but I always took it that Zazu getting hit by that rock from Scar must have scrambled his brain to the point where the stampede was all but a blur to him. At least it makes more sense than in the remake where Scar banishes Zazu even though he could have easily flew over Pride Rock and tell the lionesses everything that happened.
In the original Scar doesn't claim make the same claim, even if Zazu remembered everything he wouldn't be able to contradict anything Scar said in the scene after.
The music in the 2019 film really is so hollow and lifeless. They make these weird choices in removing percussion from parts of the score where it's needed, the gorge music is just too slow and extremely dry, hakuna matata loses all its intimacy. I just don't get it.
3:00 Funny thing is how the animation in the stampede scene would also be groundbreaking nowadays, because animators seem to have forgotten how to draw anything in 2D.
