Your favorite Disney animated film from when you were a kid is probably getting remade, so here is a ranking of all the ones so far:
Published 4:39 PM EDT Jul 15, 2019
They’ve proven so financially successful – “Beauty and the Beast” scored $504 million two years ago, while “The Jungle Book,” “Alice in Wonderland” and most recently “Aladdin” have all been well north of $300 million – that there are so many more to come.'Just do what you do':Young Simba makes friends with meerkat Timon and warthog Pumbaa in "The Lion King.
Cast as the classic Disney madwoman, Glenn Close shredding scenery like a cheap dog toy is again the obvious appeal here as fashion maven Cruella schemes to steal the Dalmatian pups of her employee and her new video-game designing husband . Come for all the doggie high jinks – thanks to a ton of animatronic animals and a John Hughes screenplay – and stay for Close getting dunked in a vat of molasses.
While Jon Favreau’s update plays it too safe in terms of storytelling – if you’ve seen the 1994 “Lion King,” you’ve seen this one – it’s hard to argue with how awesome the thing looks. Cutting-edge visual effects create a world of talking photorealistic animals that might as well be a nature documentary, and attention is paid to livening up the humor, with Billy Eichner’s funny, overdramatic meerkat Timon showing up everybody, including Beyoncé.4.
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