The Lion King First Twitter Roundup Reactions

Members of the press were able to witness the first screenings of the remake of Disney, King Lion's masterpiece, in 1994, and first impressions are extremely positive. Many say that Billy Eichner's Timon and Seth Rogen's Pumbaa are stealing the show, while the music is as emotional and powerful as ever.

Here is our summary of the first reactions to the lion king.Laura Prudom from IGN The Lion King is "without a doubt the best of Disney's remakes … an unprecedented technical feat that looks like watching a documentary about nature." However, she would never "see again the original".

Terri Schwartz & # 39; d IGN The overriding reaction is "SIMBA IS SO CUTE." The Lion King offers "absolutely stunning visual effects" and JCD McCrary's young Simba stole the show.

Jim Vejvoda of IGN The Lion King could be the "first animated film to win the same Oscar twice". He gave "Two paws in the air".

Steven Weintraub, The editor of Collider.com thinks he's never heard as much applauding in a movie as during the movie The Lion King. In addition, the visual effect, the music and the story were all incredible in his opinion.

Peter Sciretta, The owner / publisher of SlashFilm.com, called the Lion King "breathtaking filmmaking" and thought Timon and Pumbaa had stolen the show.

Danielle Radford from ScreenJunkies and GetFandom said that the Lion King was "like National Geographic with great songs, which is a good thing". She also praised Shenzi from Florence Kasuma.

Skyler Shuler, The editor of The DisInsider, called the Lion King "game changer in the VFX department". He also praised the work of Billy Eichner and Seth Rogen as Timon and Pumbaa, respectively.

Mike Ryan, editor for Uproxx, loves the Lion King and thinks it's "the most beautiful movie of effects" [he’s] never seen … the game changed kind of thing. "

Erik Davis, Editorial director of Fandango, congratulated the lion king saying that it was "absolutely gorgeous in every respect".

Courtney Howard, author of Variety and TheWrap promises fans of the original that everything they liked about the "1994 masterpiece remains unchanged".

Alisha Grauso, The writing of Atom Tickets, adored the visuals, and qualified the Lion King dazzler with a superb score and an exceptional dubbing.

Ben Pearson, editor of SlashFilm, missed the "exaggerated emotions of the characters of the original", but thought it was better than he had expected.

Scott Menzel, The editor of We Live Entertainment congratulates director Jon Favreau and says that he "directs the hell of this film.

Wendy Lee Szany from the movie couple promises that "nostalgia hits hard" and that the scene of the rout still holds.

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Adam Bankhurst is an IGN journalist who is eager to see The Lion King as his original film is his favorite movie of all time. You can follow him on Twitter @ AdamBankhurst.