Jon Favreau's CGI Lion King movie is drab as hell when compared to the original

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If there’s one thing that truly damns Disney’s insatiable demand for “live-action” remakes of its classic films, it’s their color palettes. (Also, they’re obvious and creatively bankrupt attempts to profit off of millennial nostalgia, but that’s neither here nor there.) Regardless of how much actual real-world footage sneaks its way through the hordes of CGI animals and dancing candlesticks on display in movies like The Jungle Book and Beauty And The Beast, the films themselves have a certain undeniable drabness when compared to the lushly animated originals. (Even Tim Burton, once the master of the live-action cartoon, seems to have been hit with the subdued sepia virus in his trailer for Dumbo.)