'The Lion King'
Every time Disney has produced “The Lion King,” it’s been a stylized rendition, and the question becomes whether the particular style — hand-drawn animation in the 1994 film, puppet performance in the Broadway production, or now photo-realistic computer animation — works for the story of a young cub maturing into a leader.
With director Jon Favreau and an army of animators and artists arranging pixels into realistic-looking African landscapes and talking animals, the answer is, yes, this lion still roars.
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