The Lion King, after all, is inherently silly. It works as a cartoon – it makes for a hell ... a David Attenborough documentary. Blast it at full volume and you’ll wonder what, exactly ...

It didn’t work out for Chandor with Kraven The Hunter, but Jenkins has fared marginally better with Mufasa: The Lion King. The CGI animals look a hell of a lot better than those in the comic ...

Actually, the lackluster “Mufasa: The Lion King” is both a sequel and a prequel ... which makes it no less wrong for cartoon material. Shouldn’t these “Planet Earth” creatures be off ...

The inventive energy of 1994’s “The Lion King” — let alone its 2019 CGI remake — seems very far away in these sequences. But the original was a cartoon, and “Mufasa” strives for ...