Moonlight director Barry Jenkins's all-action tale boasts uncanny CGI effects and songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda, but the screenplay is schmaltzy and derivative It's a technical marvel. Using the same photorealistic CGI techniques as John Favreau's 2019 "live-action" remake of the classic 1994 Disney animation The Lion King, this origin story for Mufasa, father of Simba and the character whose death is the inciting incident in the original film, is a visually arresting spectacle. Directed by ...
Mufasa: The Lion King review - technically dazzling Disney origin story lacks soul
The Guardian - 22 Dec 2024 10:00
Moonlight director Barry Jenkins's all-action tale boasts uncanny CGI effects and songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda, but the screenplay is schmaltzy and derivative It's a technical marvel. Using the same photorealistic CGI techniques as John Favreau's 2019 "live-action" remake of the classic 1994 Disney animation The Lion King, this origin story for Mufasa, father of Simba and the character whose death is the inciting incident in the original film, is a visually arresting spectacle. Directed by ...
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