The Lion King (2019)

My feelings about this are complicated.  The 1994 version was perfection: a childhood-shaping, Oscar-winning blockbuster, the second-highest grossing feature film of its calendar year, one of the last great hand-drawn Disney animated features, and a tear-producing machine.
This remake was controversial long before it opened, mainly because it seemed to take Disney's new branding strategy—remaking beloved animated films as CGI-dependent "live action" spectaculars—to its most drastic conclusion. It serves up the same story with different actors, different arrangements of beloved songs and soundtrack cues, a couple of original tunes, a few fresh scenes and sequences, and, of course, photorealistic animals. The latter are the movie's main selling point, so believable thatyou almost forget they aren't real.
I was aided by not having seen the original in 20 years, so I was a bit hazy on the details, but as the movie unfolded, it all came back to me.  It is a beloved story, and this rendition, if you missed the original, holds up very well.