Mufasa🔴: The Lion King Review ✔ P B P ✔
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Jenkins’ firm trust in the technology is also rewarded. As opposed to Favreau’s cast in The Lion King, the elephants, giraffes and birds here don’t look like pieces of melted plastic. They’re impressively elastic. Likewise, the lions actually have facial expressions, emoting with a naturalness that doesn’t play like something out of the uncanny valley. That movement certainly helps with the film’s original songs, written by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Most of Miranda’s tracks are memorable enough tunes that get us to bob along with the story. The primary highlight, however, is the R&B duet “Tell Me It’s You,” which pushes Mufasa and Sarabi’s burgeoning love in the face of a jealous Taka. That rhythmically kinetic song is a welcome throwback to the days of the Disney Renaissance, when singers like Peabo Bryson lent their vocals to smashes from musical-theater giants like Howard Ashman and Alan Menken. (Before the pop stars were writing and singing the songs, as Elton John did for the original Lion King.)
It helps that unlike Favreau, Jenkins isn’t restricted to making a shot-for-shot remake. As related by Rafiki – and frequently, annoyingly interrupted by asides from sidekicks Pumbaa (Seth Rogen) and Timon (Billy Eichner) – Jeff Nathanson’s script finds young Mufasa (Braelyn Rankins) living in a cracked, drought-stricken land and dreaming of a far away verdant paradise called Milele (a Swahili word meaning “forever”). After a sudden violent flood (which mirrors both the action and emotional impact of the animated original's wildebeest stampede) rips the cub away from his mother and father, he drifts miles down river, where he’s saved by the prince of another pride, Taka (Theo Somolu). Thematically, you can already see why Jenkins would be attracted to this material. His miniseries adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad previously demonstrated his keen interest in kinship, ancestry, oral storytelling, and maternal love. The last of those themes takes shape through Taka’s mother, Eshe (Thandiwe Newton), who raises Mufasa despite the grumblings of her husband Obasi (Lennie Jones), who sees outsiders as a plague to be purged. As portrayed by a commanding Aaron Pierre, the orphan grows to become more like Eshe, learning empathy, imagination, and sensitivity; Taka (a cagey Kelvin Harrison Jr.), on the other hand, learns deceit and laziness from his father.