- Ah! I wanna pet him! - Can it get better?
It can get better! - Dude, Rafiki!
Rafiki is good! That was sick, dude!
♪ (industrial intro) ♪
- Oh my god! Is this "The Lion King"?
- "The Lion King" trailer, yes!
- I haven't seen it yet.
- Oh my god. I'm so excited.
- It looks so good. Like, ugh, the animation is amazing.
- The animation is insane.
- (Mufasa) Everything the light touches..
- Whoa.
- (Mufasa) ...is our kingdom.
- This literally looks beautiful. - AHH!
- (Mufasa) ...one day, the sun will set on my time here...
- [Bleep], dude.
- (Mufasa) ...and will rise with you as the new king.
- ♪ Nants ingonyama bagithi baba ♪ - Ah. So good.
- Simba's so cute. (laughs) - Ah! I wanna pet him!
- It's, like, the animals look so real.
- Animation is amazing. It's hard to think
that this can be called animation.
- (awed) Oh.
- This is literally my childhood. Oh, my heart hurts. I'm so excited.
- ♪ Sithi uhm ingonyama ♪
- "The Lion King."
- The cast for this is just amazing.
- Can it get better? It can get better!
It just keeps getting better. - Beyonce?!
- Beyonce?! And James Earl Jones coming back
as [bleep] Mufasa! - (Mufasa) Remember.
(Simba roars)
- I am so excited.
- Summer 2019 is gonna be the best summer ever.
- So, fun fact, I would watch it almost every day after preschool,
and I had a stuffed Mufasa.
It's the only play I've ever seen on Broadway.
I love "Lion King." - I have thought that all
of the live action Disney films that have been coming out
have all been trash. There was no need
to make "Cinderella." There was no need to make
"Beauty and the Beast." There was no need
to make "Alice and Wonderland" like four times.
This. This is what we needed.
- (FBE) So, we have more to show you in a second,
but that was the first teaser released for the new "Lion King" film
coming in 2019. - Yesss. I'm so excited to watch that.
- (FBE) The original was released in 1994,
and we have a side-by-side comparison of the trailers to show you now.
- Ooh, okay. Yeah, I'm excited for this.
- It's literally the same. - Is it the exact same?
- Down to the gazelle lifting its head up.
- It's just crazy to see how far animation has come.
- Even back the, though, like, it's stellar.
- (Mufasa) Everything the light touches...
is our kingdom. - Wow.
- (Mufasa) But a king's time as ruler...
- I love Disney so much. - (Mufasa) ...one day,
the sun will set on my time here... - That budget at Disney went up.
- (Mufasa) ...and will rise with you as the new king.
- ♪ Nants ingonyama bagithi baba ♪ - Dude, Rafiki! Rafiki is good!
That was sick, dude! The only difference is that
he rips roots in this one. - Just interesting to see.
Like, I would've never thought of watching them side-by-side,
but it's almost exact. - Oh my gosh.
I can't decide which Simba is cuter.
- This is beautiful. Jesus. - I like the old style too, though,
like, the more flat animation.
- Wow. Dude, Pride Rock.
- This just makes me so happy, and I can't wait.
- (Mufasa) Remember. - (Simba roars)
- (giggles) I got chills again! - It's so dope,
because it's paying homage to the old one,
but the animation is so incredible. It's not literally spot on,
but it's pretty shot for shot. - I remember they did that
with the first "Beauty and the Beast" trailer, too.
I think it's really cool, 'cause then you can do that
and see the difference. It's really fun.
And it just gives you a nostalgic kickback.
- (FBE) So, after seeing that trailer, how would you describe this remake?
- Ridiculously amazing. I don't even have to see
the whole movie and I'm already in love with it.
- That updated animation is insane, 'cause the technology and everything's
changed so much since when it was first released in '94.
- It doesn't really feel like the old animated movie anymore
that I was used to as a kid. It's blurring the line
with reality and cartoon very closely. There's a lot of times I can't tell
if this is a real shot image or just animated.
- I saw a meme on Facebook for this. It's like, "Oh, they're making
a live action remake of 'Lion King,' right?"
And it's like, "Yes, but it's animated."
"So, then it's animated, right?" "No, it's a live action remake."
It's supposed to look like a live action remake,
but it's animated. - (FBE) Well, this is actually
considered a live action film. - Really? How-- why?
- So, I get it, because people are drawing it,
but it's still all filmed on green screen,
people are in motion capture suits. None of that is real.
- (FBE) However, there's been some differing views
around how the film is being labeled with some thinking that it shouldn't
be considered live action when it doesn't feature
any live characters and is primarily CGI.
- Yeah. No, it's all-- it's all animated.
- (FBE) On the other hand, the VFX supervisor for the film
says that he didn't consider the remake to be an animated movie
because of how the director incorporated the VR techniques
that fall onto rules of traditional live action filmmaking
such as cinematic angles from different characters' viewpoints.
So, what do you think about that?
- So, I think it's hard, because it's, like,
I don't wanna call it live action, because, you know,
it's not really a real lion.
- I definitely would take it as a live action film,
and I understand the issues that go beyond that,
but it's clearly trying to be as real as possible
and it's trying to really engulf that feeling of actually being there.
- It's hard for me to call it live action, but I also
can't really call it animated. So, I don't know what to call it.
I really feel like Disney's creating a new category
with these movies that look live action, but are not.
- Of course, it's not gonna be live action.
How are they gonna get those animals to do that?
Yeah, you go train a lion. It's a new genre
that I think we need to find a special word for,
'cause it isn't animation.
- (FBE) So, Disney has made live action remakes
of other Disney classics. - There was "Cinderella,"
"The Jungle Book," and "Beauty and the Beast."
- I think they're planning on remaking all of them
at some point now. - (FBE) Do you hope to see
more live action versions of these Disney favorites
or do you feel like that takes away from the classics
and that there shouldn't be any remakes of these originals?
- I think it's just kind of the way that Hollywood's
going these days. There's so many reboots
and remakes being made. It doesn't surprise me
that they're doing that.
I'm excited, because I love the stories,
and then it's really, really dope to see it
in a whole new way with how crazy animation and VR is.
- Animation is so beautiful, and the film exists so gorgeously
the way it was originally created. But I'm not against them
coming out with live action versions of the film.
- I don't think it takes away from the classics,
because if these movies end up sucking ass, right,
it's gonna add to the classics, to why we don't [bleep]
with the classics and gonna add even more to that.
- It would be a shame in some way not to try to improve on it
or, I guess, kind of make their own twist on an old movie.
That's been going on for so many years.
- I'm not a fan really of a lot of live action stuff
that Disney has done. Their bread and butter
is their animation. They do a great job with that.
BUT them remaking these films has kind of pulled me in a little more.
Just films that are nostalgic to me, so "Aladdin,"
"The Lion King," "Mulan." If they end up doing "Peter Pan,"
hell yeah. But anything past that, I don't care for.
- (FBE) So finally, "The Lion King" live action film will be released
summer of 2019. So, back to what we
were talking about earlier, would you consider this
a live action film or not?
- I do believe it's a live action film.
- You're not gonna use real animals, so this is the live action version
of "The Lion King." - It's trying to replicate
real animals. Yes, this is live action.
- No, because they're not... alive. (chuckles)
- I say it's live action. If there's people
in motion capture suits, I'm gonna call it a live action film.
- I guess it's not animated, so if you have no other term for it,
yes, it's a "live action" movie. - I wouldn't.
There's no real animals or real humans in the film.
- Live action. It's way more advanced than traditional animation.
- I'ma go with not. It's a hybrid.
It's -- literally. It's a Prius.
It's a Prius of the movies. That's all I gotta say.
- Thanks for watching College Kids React.
Shoutout to Carmen Rodriguez and Jasmin Ali.
- (as Mufasa) Remember... to subscribe and hit the bell.
- Are you gonna watch the new "Lion King"?
Let us know in the comments. - Hakuna matata.
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