7 Reasons To See the New Lion King Live-Action Movie

Do you remember the 1994 Lion King animated masterpiece? In 25 years millions upon millions of people have cried at Mufasa’s death scene, cheered for Simba, and laughed their bottoms off at Timon and Pumbaa’s shenanigans. All this in gloriously animated full-feature movie, which also got an HD re-release a few years ago. Nobody’s ever thought that Disney would start dabbling in CGI-heavy live-action movies based on their animated versions. Timeless classics like Jungle Book, Dumbo, and Aladdin have already receiver the unnecessary facelift, and now it’s Simba’s time.

So, should you even care about this new version or should you stick to the tried and true animated classic instead? Well, if you’re still on the fence, here are 7 reasons to see the new Lion King.

1. Fantastic Cast
Starting from the legendary James Earl Jones as Mufasa and ending with ‘Queen’ Beyoncé as Nala, the cast is brilliant!

2. Sweet-sweet nostalgia
Prepare those tissues, because you know what’s coming!

3. Disney (almost always) delivers
I mean, they actually do make cool entertaining movies, so you won’t see some half-assed, fan-made attempt that only a mother would love. And it’s the freaking Lion King! There’s no way they screw it up.