Barry Jenkins’s prequel to the 2019 “live-action” remake of the 1994 Disney animated classic leaves much to be desired.
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I will say this for Mufasa: Those lions are cute as buttons. Especially the cubs. With that tactile fur and those tiny faces and those huge pleading eyes, you just want to squeeze the fuzzy little critters. Disney will surely sell a lot of plushies with this one. The technology on the previous Lion King — not the original 1994 animated Lion King, but the 2019 Jon Favreau “live-action” [sic] remake — was certainly impressive, with every whisker precisely captured and the photorealistic fur perfectly rendered. But technologically speaking, the new one leaves the previous…
