When the 2019 The Lion King came out, one of my gripes was the facial animation. The lions didn’t have a lot of expression, and it just felt like watching a nature documentary with moving mouths.
It says a lot about Jon Favreau’s photorealistic CG-animated remake of “The Lion King” that it’s frequently, and inaccurately, called the “live-action” version. The 2019 blockbuster is ...