Yeah remember when Lion King (1994) came out and it was an original, 2D animated film that everyone loved because it was rich and original? I wasn’t alive in 1994, but I have heard the tale of Disney’s 90s Renaissance
I mean that's what happens when a person has been doing amazing throughout their entire career I would say TwT I Love beyoncé I grew up with a lot of her music so I guess I understand why some say that
Destiny’s Child was a good group. Her solo work is mediocre and she is a shitty actress. But everyone has treated her like a goddess since her solo career started
The whole Beyonce thing is so insulting. Imagine you're a part of a project and you just keep getting asked about this other person instead of your experience, what you were doing, ect. It feels like they're shoving everyone else under the rug to boost this already incredibly famous person. Especially since she never showed up or really worked with them while everyone else did. The whole movie just felt like 'Hey, look at all these famous people!' and not about the movie at all. Also could you imagine being Beyonce and having everyone act like anything you do is insanely amazing? I wouldn't want that, let me actually do something first. Not be screamed at to look right
This is ironically *why* she doesn’t show up to a lot of things physically. Even when she earned an award with Meg Thee Stallion for Meg’s song, Trevor Noah turned the attention heavy to Beyoncé and you could see the discomfort on Bey’s face. She’s self-aware and doesn’t like distracting or upstaging her peers. It’s not her fault people worship her, the stans (especially the ones in journalism) are the real problem.
And again, the Lion King remake was actually never meant to be a movie… it was just the poster board for a music video album Beyonce made called Black is King which came out shortly after Lion King
However it gave me an idea. Make a genuine film, somehow attempt to involve Beyonce and sell it to the masses that way, while selling it's true audience the real meaning of the movie. It doesn't matter if she shows up, the fact that she may have been involved might draw.(apparently she loves money so make a big ass paycheck and she might come)
I can't get over "You are the voice of Simba! How does it feel... to work with Beyonce and Donald Glover? :)" You're literally the main character and im still not gonna ask about your experience during production
The media's obsession with Beyoncé seems borderline condescending. There are more talented, accomplished people in show business that don't warrant anywhere near the idolization.
I mean it kind of is from how this woman approaches its strong female character thing it makes sense that they want to Beyonce since she's a strong role model to be Nala (I'm so sorry if that didn't make sense-)
@@UsagiMay then she should have said “Beyonce is a strong role model for women” instead of just “Shes Beyonce” its like people forget shes just as human as you or me. Its obvious shes worshipped and frankly you can be a good role model and a shitty actor still
@@MadMattie107 I mean the from what I remember Beyonce has worked in some movies and she was fine and I'm not saying this is okay in fact it's something I genuinely dislike but people always forget that celebrities are human hell I remember getting into a small conversation with someone who got kind of mad that a celebrity was talking about mental health (Keke Palmer if you care) I love the fact that they were talking about mental health but apparently celebrities can't do that because they have money that can solve all their problems and they can't complain about being depressed or having anxiety it's sad but an unfortunately reality
@@someidiot420 Why? I understand liking someone's work ( I love the work of Elon Musk), But why Idolize someone so much, you would suck their toes so hard?
Wait, what? No! That movie isn’t perfect, and it could definitely be improved on, but whatever they make nowadays would completely lack the enormous Amounts of charm that the original has.
Beyonce was asked to audition for Disney's The Princess and The Frog and she refused, she would not audition, she would do it if given to her. The filmakers refused to just give her a role without the audition and thank goodness they didn't. So I am unsurprised that this time she was just given the role for name recognition. On a note about the whole animation/live-action debate - I argued with people I know that this is not live action and they said it counts. Recently, the BBC released a show called Final Day, and Apple TV have a show called Prehistoric Planet. Both have a documentary style and are narrated by David Attenborough - NO ONE IS CALLING THAT LIVE ACTION. Becasue its not. So why would you call this live action when everything you see if made on a computer.
“Prehistoric Planet” was made by the same CGI team behind “The Lion King” remake, but yet people liked “Prehistoric Planet” better. I guess because the CGI technology was used for something new and original I guess.
I agree that the attention towards them was overdone, but lets not pretend that racism doesn't exist. As well as the fact the whole royal family is white and riddled with incest.
@@alexisg1725 and you think that the royal family watching a remake of Disney movie about talking lions is going to change anything about their colonist ways and pedophile scandals? I agree that they are racist and the tabloids are always crap but to regular, normal people, seeing a white guy with a mixed girl is not a big deal. They don’t even have any real power, they’re just celebrities.
You know what actually irritated me? They cut off " be prepared" which was one of the iconic songs of the original. But what's worse is that chitwel ejiofor is a pretty good singer. So you cut the song of a genuinely good singer and then got seth rogen to sing a song
It must suck to be an actress and work really hard for a role, just to be overlooked because someone is more famous than you. Someone that didn't even put the work in.
Listen, he's had important shit to do, like tearing down a bunch of dumb Watch Mojo listicles and destroying a law professor's credibility over an old, racist manga.
@@L.CROSS0 When the random UA-cam comment is better at notifying me than the bell I rung specifically to be notified when Adam uploaded. Thanks UA-cam, top rung devs y'all got here.
Fun Fact: Disney’s Dinosaur from 2000 (A movie that also sucks) integrated photorealistic CG dinosaurs into live-action environments, and yet, that’s still labeled as an animated film despite featuring more live action than Lion King 2019
It sucked because it was butchered by production who wanted to drop the project. The story should have completely been different and much more mature and messed up.
@@opper4325 it probably didn't help when the executives wanted more child-friendly aspects shoe-horned in. I feel like animation is tossed about as some made for kids when in reality it's an art form, a genre not exclusively for kids. Look at the Black Cauldron. That's a film which tried to be more for adults, but executives meddled with it so much to make the film even worse than it could've been. Here's the bottom line: Hollywood has that mindset where animation is just for kids and nothing else. I'm personally sick of that.
Exactly! That’s how I knew from seeing the trailer that it’ll be very boring. The unrealistic expressions and body movements IS what makes animations like the original so whimsical and fun especially while singing!
Because "creativity" and "fun" isn't for adults apparently, unless of course it's explicitly intended to be a regurgitation of something they remember as creative and fun in a new grey package that makes them feel like it's mature. I was legitimately told by someone I knew that they thought the remakes are better purely because they're live action/CGI.
51:20 "I mean, it's animated, they don't use real animals or real sets or locations, so yea its the live action version. And Beyonce is amazing and prefect and the Royal family too. Me love Disney, me consume product."
I remember watching behind the scenes footage of the original film and they got to have actual lion cubs in the studio to study their movements and it was fucking amazing. :'(
The mindless consumerism of the audience, the complete apathy of the entire staff to produce anything of value and the Hollywood machine blatantly not giving a shit about anyone involved not worth at least 100 million to their faces(Nice to have you here, did you get to touch *_Beyonce_* ?) just makes all of this such a wild trip. It's like watching all the worst of humanity rolled into 1.
Cannot imagine a 17 year old female McDonald’s employee from Idaho or something getting excited because Beyoncé met Prince harry and the princess at the lion king premiere
36:18 literally kills me because there is still a demographic for 2d movies. i myself and so many people i know would DIE for 2d to make a comeback. We haven't moved on from it, companies just want to push out movies faster and faster and faster and rake in on nostalgia rather than tell an original story with beautiful animation. It's heartbreaking to see, because there are so many people out there that would love to see a resurgence.
disney's biggest fucking mistake was going from 2d to 3d animation. ill go to my grave saying that. *edit: ill elaborate on this- i can see how it seemed like a good idea at the time due to the fact computer animation was becoming more common and more popular bc ✨wow technology✨ but disney's quality and reputation has just gone downhill in part because of it. its like going from a diet of homemade meals by your mom to eating fast food every day. there's just no love anymore.
@@michaelstrong5383 it is. Computer animation is not at all the bad guy here. It's a wonderful medium to tell stories with, and it can and proves to be beautiful in its own way. But I don't know, I feel like, when you spend so much time drawing characters frame-by-frame, there's a bit more care and love put into it because you're completely in charge of how all of it goes together. I'm very, very passionate about 2d animation and it breaks my heart that it's died out like it has. I have no idea if any of what i said makes sense and if not I apologize, I'm kind of out of it from cold medicine.
just go to anime, a lot of it is cringe but theres some gems in there. they make an absurd amount of it too, theres always at least a few killer shows a year. Movies are a bit less common though.
I'd honestly have to wonder how the rest of the actors and actresses that was apart of this thinks of this entire situation. They were way more involved in all of it than she was, but then being pretty much ignored simply due to her name being in the credits. Just witnessing this is just an awful experience.
I mean, they got paid. They moved on to other projects. They are probably content with their time on the movie, but the optimist in me hopes they feel a little guilt for making a pretty superfluous product.
It's really unsettling just how much people praise Beyonce likes she's a sort of God. It just sounds like a cult when she's in public with people screaming her name. Scares me to no end
@@polojuice2432 it's always amusing to me when modern men treat Elvis and the Beatles like god's when past men hated them because the majority of their fanbase were teenage girls.
The pharell clips had me livid. Is he not aware of the COLLOSAL missed opportunity that was adàpting the goddamn broadway play? Disney is not doing anything for him, black black black people or anyone else! Hes a perfect mouthpiece of disney's masturbatory accolades. "This is an AFRICAN STORY!!" oh you mean shakespeare?! Hamlet? But he is right that an african story would have been better, AN ORIGINAL IDEA and open up more careers for that arent already established. Africa has always existed in the TLK cinematic Univerese as set dressing. That isnt enough. If that were james charles saying similar stuff about a live action version cgi mess version of LUCA id be saying the same thing.... Disney is just using you.
@@BunkerFox Yeh it's amazing people think a skin colour makes you African when they have absolutely no cultural ties to the continent whatsoever. Equality isn't going to be achieved through Hollywood anyway, even if every director and producer was black it is not reflective of wider society - the priveleged black people are no different to the priveleged white people. Equality does not exist in half measures and it certainly doesn't exist through blockbusters.
I wish people respected and recognized the major differences between acting irl and VOICE acting. That’s why this cast fell so short imo. Star studded, but Donald (as expressive he is irl) was so monotone, and Beyoncé just did not fit at all. And the fact that these were ‘realistic’ cg lions did not help at ALL. Beyoncé played Beyoncé and that’s it. Literally was about to say something similar as you when Rafiki’s new VA was talking about him; it seems like whenever they talk so passionately about the film, they’re just referring back to the og animated one. Another thing I always thought; Beyoncé’s inspired album could’ve been stand alone with no association to TLK when compared to Rhythm of The Pridelands by Lebo M, which was a true 2nd part to the og soundtrack.
What about Keith David? He was awesome in Disney Gargoyles as well as the Princess and the Frog. He could play either Mufasa because his performance of Goliath brought this wise leader to life or Scar because of his singing voice.
@@katethemikufan9109 probably not "famous" enough or some shit. Then again they casted fucking Seth Rogan and John Oliver and I'm pretty sure they aren't A-list (though like Adum said, Oliver has a talk show to further market the movie through)
Beyonace's aloofness was probably because it was yet another job for her. You listen to the interviews and most of the actors do seem excited to have been part of a production that meant something to them in their childhood, but Beyonce I'm sure was there for the money, showed up exactly as long as necessary, and dipped out because that's what she was hired to do. That's not really a knock against her, but it's pretty clear that Disney wanted her name attached to the project regardless of her own investment. Probably a similar situation to Emma Watson, where they had ONE PERSON in mind for the role and it was a name they could market, and fuck it if they were actually good. She was 'perfect' because the executives could market her. It seems nuts to me-- when I heard the casting decision I was mostly confused and a little annoyed-- and I'd figure The Lion King on its own would be enough to be a billion dollars worth of butts in seats. But then you see these promo clips of people losing their minds about her being there, and so many interviews having a side table of "So how FABULOUS was it to work with BEYONCE??!" and I guess her casting did what Disney wanted.
Well for Emma Watson, she was actually quite passionate about BatB and she was very involved in it. From her interview(s) where she said that she always want to play Belle ever since she was a kid to add certain elements to Belle that ended up in the movie. I bet there’s more examples but those are the ones I could think of. Also, I’m not a big fan of live action BatB but I just want to clear up a few things.
You may have a point but her aloofness has to be in part because thats what she has to do to keep her old hollywood type mysticism persona in tact. (Plus its been implied she doesnt do ANY interviews anymore because shes too shy i guess) I think she actually wanted to be involved in a disney project with other black folks for her kids since princess and the frog I mean come on-- I imagine it was her idea to do an entire album for this movie. Too much effort for a company that will return nothing, girl.
@@jane6799 Even as somebody who thought some of the changes that were made to fit Emma didn't really help the BatB movie, I really do admire how invested she was. Part of the reason I am so thoroughly frustrated with a lot of these remakes is because they have a perfectly good cast and crew who clearly give a damn, yet somehow all the wrong decisions get made along the way (as well as what I assume is a lot of meddling and possible rushing of production from higher-ups) and nothing quite gels. Lost potential sucks more than something that nobody gave a crap about to begin with.
@@arurasky Apparently Beyoncé missed out on the role of Tiana because she refused to audition (like she expected to just get an offer for the part outright). I'm not sure if she was as diva-ish as the tabloids made it out to be, but I'm curious if this means she was just given the role of Nala without auditioning. I don't have any doubts that she was excited either way though, I agree with you that I think she puts on a front.
It’s extremely sad to watch hours and hours of people hyping Beyoncé up, and then she didn’t show up once in all of the promotional footage. It’s like inviting the cool kid at school to your birthday party and waiting all night for them to come, to no avail.
@@GhGh-ci8ld she’s the most rich famous loved and powerful woman in the world. She wouldn’t get any backlash for interviews now. She just doesn’t feel like it.
@@maddieb.4282 part of the love IS bc shes so private. when she was still doing interviews people were scrutinizing her all over the place. i still get mad when i think abt that one interview she did while pregnant and people insisted she really wasnt bc her dress folded in an odd way. and to this day that rumor still persists (which to clarify, she WAS pregnant, she did not use a surrogate). and thats how it was, all the time. she's been backed into a corner where she cant even talk to people or make appearances that she hasnt organized previously bc of all the attention on her. i dont think even she can fix it.
@@someidiot420 that’s been a problem all female celebrities seem to face to at least some extent. The rumours people spread and believe get so absurd. I understand her taking steps to reduce it, especially if they’re going to spread lies about her children. Still sucks for the others involved in these projects I think, but the reasoning there makes sense to me.
But it wasn't nostalgic at all. They missed it because it was just nauseating. The voice acting was horrific compared to the way they were voiced in the original
It still gets me that Pharell really thought there was something crazy and groundbreaking about people watching a film set in Africa. 🙄 Dude, there were black and white films set in Africa in the 40s. Plus, this is a remake of a film that came out over 20 years ago that was set in Africa. The original movie was nominated for Oscars and has been a part of pop culture for years. Edit: I just noticed he said “an African story” - a movie that was written and directed by American white men? Why don’t you go to a Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie speech if you care about African stories?
I figured it's pretty obvious that celebrities on these kind of projects will just say any kinda bullshit to make them seem more important. That's just part of the performance and PR. It's not that deep and he probably doesn't ~believe~ anything about it.
I still don't understand my sister and her kids saying they liked the remake better than the original, like what the fuck?? My guess is they haven't seen the animated one in a long time and just got really impressed with the remake because "Omg it looks so real!!!111" and thus decided they liked it better. I hope I can "cure" them with the original someday, lol.
The existence of the Lion King remake still baffles me to this day. Say what you will about Disney's other remakes, but they at least tried to do something different with the plot, whether they make sense or not. This remake plays it way too safe and adds nothing to the classic story. What's worse is that the "realistic" animation sucks out all life and emotion to the plot. Unlike the original, I feel absolutely nothing when Simba lies next to his father's dead body because Simba is stone-faced all throughout. Sorry for this long comment, but much like Adam making his review, I can make an entire essay on all the stuff the Lion King remake did wrong and the fact that it made $1 billion worldwide, making it the highest grossing animated film of all time, hurts me.
As an artist who’s worked with animation and story boarding it hurts me that Jon pretty much outright disrespects his own animators of this film by instead saying “it’s live action.”
@W Shiflet Ah yes, one of the few animals who's also neighbors with Simba, Timon and Pumbaa, making the idea of the trio as outcasts and loners completely pointless.
Musicians I can understand, but certainly only the true alternative musicians, the artists, the ones who started on their own because they have experience that is valuable to their listeners.
Because most human beings still carry this deeply ingrained pack mentality: "Ooga booga, famous human means very good and important human! Me associate myself with famous human, me look good and important too!"
You'll have to be more specific about what section of society you mean. The ones obsessed with Beyonce? The brain dead journalists with the softest ball questions? The ones who this type of promotion was made for??
@@doubtfulhenry Mainly the people obsessed with Beyonce and the royal family. At some point in the video Adam says something like 'I knew there were people like this but I didn't know it was THIS BAD' which is pretty much my exact sentiment
@@chanceneck8072 You guys are being incredibly dramatic lmao. There's no reason to get blackpilled over some random promo reel that hardly anyone actually watched.
This goes beyond The Lion King. This is a perfect little capsule explaining why our species is so fucking stupid. I'll watch this whenever I feel alone in my frustrations
God why is everyone so obsessed with Beyonce?! She's just fine looking and her music is whatever why is everyone treating her like a literal god?! It's honestly super creppy
Lots of people here are coping hard in the replies. Beyoncé is a great artist. I’m not a fan. I really couldn’t care, but she has a great music catalogue and her performances are next level. People on here saying it’s cause she’s woke or cause of Jay Z are ass backwards lol
All this Beyonce talks reminds me of Homer Simpson talking about Poochie. "Everytime Beyonce is not on the screen, everyone should go 'where is Beyonce!?'"
@@anthonyhenriques7654 I mean the original promo cringe videos that were uploaded to this channel. This video is basically a supercut of all them. If you wanna watch them, they’re in the “the lion king” playlist on this channel.
@@houseofleaves126 oh okay no been watching all this promo cringe for the past 2 years I mistook what you said as him watching promo cringe for the original 93 movie lol I got all excited for nothing
You know it's a bunch of self-serving bullshit when they cut to different celebrities saying, "The Lion King" over and over. Also, parasocial celebrity relationships are extremely creepy. The way Beyonce is revered as some sort of perfect goddess is just insane.
I remember going to the theaters to see “Lion King” (2019) about two weeks after it was released. I went into the theater, (it’s a pretty big, normal theater) and when the movie started, there were like 2 other people in the theater. I remember this, because I felt confident enough to talk to myself in my regular volume while the movie was playing.
He's already done with the first half of it. He's said the second half is shorter because he did introductions for cast members. I don't think that's how halves work 🤷 but he's in the home stretch
@13:44 the problem with these stupid interviews is that they're not allowed to ask challenging questions that makes the actors/ crew pause because they got hundreds more interviews to go. If the interviewer asks any question they haven't heard a thousand times the publicists will make sure they never do an interview again. Imagine having to interview someone while there's someone in your line of sight (off camera) constantly judging you waiting for a mistake. It's such a pathetic system
Seems like Beyonce was the only one who didn't want to participate and promote this movie. She just showed up for the check and did the minimum amount of work. Respect
I can't wait for the next full length YMS review, which will not for the Lion King, but will be for Beyonce's discography which Adam will listen to in preparation for talking about Beyonce in this film
I’d even settle for just watching Lemonade, honestly - tbh it's really fascinating seeing Beyoncé takes from people she’s not “for.” I'm definitely who she's for and I would absolutely hesitate to guillotine Queen B when the class war comes. I mean she's still a billionaire so I would still let the blade go brrrrr, but the fact that I would even pause says a lot.
One, Beyonce needs to be louder, angrier, and have access to a time machine. Two, whenever Beyonce's not onscreen, all the other characters should be asking 'Where's Beyonce?
I’m gonna watch through this whole thing to see if Beyoncé was ever actually interviewed! They say her name so goddamn much I’d be amazed if they didn’t
@@somethingwithultra7231 She appeared in that 2006 Pink Panther movie with Steve Martin! A role in which she had extremely limited screen time despite being billed on The poster! That should say something about how her fame is more of a pull than her acting range.
@@dylanmcartoonell1536 I truly don't understand why she is so elite compared to any other popular singer. I mean I get she's married to Jay Z and she's plenty talented but if I'm being honest her music is just alright. I just don't get why she's on this absolutely insane pedestal
@@anthonyhenriques7654 I don't really understand either? Like seeing the paparazzi totally ignore every other celeb then SHRIEK HER NAME LIKE WILD ANIMALS the minute she walks up is so bizarre, they only ask about her and everyone just SCREAMS her name and loses their damn minds Like she's not bad but I don't understand this godly worship and rabid obsession for her either, it's kind of creepy? I don't understand why everyone is so insanely rabid about her in particular in comparison to any other celeb/singer
No it needs to be "Beyonce's the Lion King (2019) with bonus Beyonce content" because people need to know that Beyonce is in it and she is the only thing that matters
I'm so glad you're not afraid to speak about Beyoncé lmao, there really does feel like this veil of ~perfect~ that people throw on her, when really it just seems like she does what she needs to do for her career and keeps everything else very private. While I can respect it, I don't understand her fanbase. Your part 1 of the movie in whole really opened my eyes to just how bad it really was, I was coming at it from the expression point of view (why are you making this movie if you're not going to properly tell the story, with emotion!), and when you pointed out mostly James Earl Jones' voice it blew my mind. I love that he was willing to come back and help, but I now believe he should have only re-voiced Mufasa when he was speaking to Simba through the clouds, if they were willing to use his younger voice for some bits, why not just all of it? He's an actor, if you explained it to him respectfully, he seems like the kind of person who would understand.
What makes the reaction segment even better is the react videos are all just acted out. And any real reactions are edited out of the video. So the "wow. Dude pride rock" is what the fine bros think is a good natural reaction
13:29 The interview is with Studio Movie Grill. Guarantee you that some executive told her to include a question about "Sharing a meal and watching a movie" because it's going to be their company focus for the quarter.
Adam has spent more time working on the review for the Lion King remake than the filmmakers spent working on the actual movie
The review will come out when the flash movie foes
It's apt because the interviewers are jerking off Beyonce at light speed
This might actually be true lmao
@@meurigjenkins if you disinclude animators then maybe
It's almost sad that he could have actually made a movie.
If Beyoncé was so good, we’d have Beytwicé by now
I smirked at this. Nice 👍🏾
That is both somehow awful and legit funny.
But what about BeyBlade
Wait until you hear about BeyBlackpink
Beydos
Fun fact: there was once a time when the Disney studios were known for consistently high-quality animation and real artistic innovation.
Then Shrek happened and completely Shreked them and they've been playing catch-up for the last 2 decades
Now they just horde copyrights.
Shrek and Toy Story, great movies that ruined a generation of animation afterwards
@@lacolem1 2D animation can't save bad writting. Minions, Cars, and every bad 3D movie would still be the same even if you made them in 2D
Yeah remember when Lion King (1994) came out and it was an original, 2D animated film that everyone loved because it was rich and original? I wasn’t alive in 1994, but I have heard the tale of Disney’s 90s Renaissance
It's weird how people went from "Beyonce is a really good singer" to "Beyonce is literally a god ascended to Earth."
Beyonce drinks the blood of babies
Thats cult of personality for you. America has a super big worshiping celebrities problem
I mean that's what happens when a person has been doing amazing throughout their entire career I would say TwT I Love beyoncé I grew up with a lot of her music so I guess I understand why some say that
@@UsagiMay I only know Beyonce because she was Foxy in Austin Powers
Destiny’s Child was a good group. Her solo work is mediocre and she is a shitty actress. But everyone has treated her like a goddess since her solo career started
The whole Beyonce thing is so insulting. Imagine you're a part of a project and you just keep getting asked about this other person instead of your experience, what you were doing, ect. It feels like they're shoving everyone else under the rug to boost this already incredibly famous person. Especially since she never showed up or really worked with them while everyone else did. The whole movie just felt like 'Hey, look at all these famous people!' and not about the movie at all. Also could you imagine being Beyonce and having everyone act like anything you do is insanely amazing? I wouldn't want that, let me actually do something first. Not be screamed at to look right
everyone treated Beyonce like some sort of messiah it's scary like shes using her illuminati power's lol
Right? I don't get it. I have nothing against her or her music, but the idolization of celebrities in general just baffles me.
This is ironically *why* she doesn’t show up to a lot of things physically. Even when she earned an award with Meg Thee Stallion for Meg’s song, Trevor Noah turned the attention heavy to Beyoncé and you could see the discomfort on Bey’s face. She’s self-aware and doesn’t like distracting or upstaging her peers. It’s not her fault people worship her, the stans (especially the ones in journalism) are the real problem.
And again, the Lion King remake was actually never meant to be a movie… it was just the poster board for a music video album Beyonce made called Black is King which came out shortly after Lion King
FAACTS
Started this video expecting cringy interviewers asking fluff questions, ended this video with a grudge against Beyonce's involvement in anything
I'm genuinely creeped out by the cult-like behavior towards her. What is wrong with people?
However it gave me an idea. Make a genuine film, somehow attempt to involve Beyonce and sell it to the masses that way, while selling it's true audience the real meaning of the movie. It doesn't matter if she shows up, the fact that she may have been involved might draw.(apparently she loves money so make a big ass paycheck and she might come)
A lot of her music is mid to make things worse.
I can't get over "You are the voice of Simba! How does it feel... to work with Beyonce and Donald Glover? :)"
You're literally the main character and im still not gonna ask about your experience during production
if i was him i would have said who beyonce?, just to spite them
Feels bad
"John Oliver was born to play Zazu."
Yeah, no. Definitely not. We already had the perfect casting with Rowan Atkinson.
John Oliver was born to smell that Zaza
You could have cast Peter Capaldi as a more hyped Zazu, and it could've been called a "natural fit".
@@darwincity Peter Capaldi would've been a way better fit imo.
A wet fart would have been a better casting choice!
The media's obsession with Beyoncé seems borderline condescending. There are more talented, accomplished people in show business that don't warrant anywhere near the idolization.
Marketing.
Who?
As a power move, if I ever get a chance to work with Beyonce and someone asks me what it was like I'll just say "who?"
Please do. I'm rooting for you.
That is a genius idea
"Eh I wasn't impressed"
i love you, i love your idea. good luck, i'm rooting for you
”all right, I guess.”
“Because she’s Beyoncé” is not a fucking answer, btw.
"Why do you think John Smith was cast as Nala?"
"Because he's John Smith."
@@dionhalpin5117 🫡
I mean it kind of is from how this woman approaches its strong female character thing it makes sense that they want to Beyonce since she's a strong role model to be Nala (I'm so sorry if that didn't make sense-)
@@UsagiMay then she should have said “Beyonce is a strong role model for women” instead of just “Shes Beyonce” its like people forget shes just as human as you or me. Its obvious shes worshipped and frankly you can be a good role model and a shitty actor still
@@MadMattie107 I mean the from what I remember Beyonce has worked in some movies and she was fine and I'm not saying this is okay in fact it's something I genuinely dislike but people always forget that celebrities are human hell I remember getting into a small conversation with someone who got kind of mad that a celebrity was talking about mental health (Keke Palmer if you care) I love the fact that they were talking about mental health but apparently celebrities can't do that because they have money that can solve all their problems and they can't complain about being depressed or having anxiety it's sad but an unfortunately reality
The treatment of Beyonce is like something out of the hunger games.
"Why was she the perfect casting for Nala?"
"Because she's amazing, she's Beyoncé."
Beyoncé is Beyoncé?????? NO WAY !?!?!?!?!?
And Nala is amazing? I don't get it.
That's a really high hint that they really don't have a point or real reason.
They're literal real life soyjacks - coming from someone who hates the term
and when Beyonce's not on screen everyone should ask "where's Beyonce?"
She went back to her home planet to record her lines
as someone part of the beyhive, we are constantly like that and it was so funny to watch adam point out how stupid we are
@@someidiot420 Why? I understand liking someone's work ( I love the work of Elon Musk), But why Idolize someone so much, you would suck their toes so hard?
Hanging our with Slimer
I only laugh at Adam's suffering because I know I'll get mine when the new Robin Hood drops.
Wait, what? No! That movie isn’t perfect, and it could definitely be improved on, but whatever they make nowadays would completely lack the enormous
Amounts of charm that the original has.
Disney why?!!!!!
only Ls for the furry community 😔
@@mojavefry2617 We're in the era of souless remakes made purely for nostalgia bucks.
will the new Robin Hood feature entirely quadrupedal, unclothed characters in a story adapted to be "realistic" in nature?
Beyonce was asked to audition for Disney's The Princess and The Frog and she refused, she would not audition, she would do it if given to her. The filmakers refused to just give her a role without the audition and thank goodness they didn't. So I am unsurprised that this time she was just given the role for name recognition.
On a note about the whole animation/live-action debate - I argued with people I know that this is not live action and they said it counts. Recently, the BBC released a show called Final Day, and Apple TV have a show called Prehistoric Planet. Both have a documentary style and are narrated by David Attenborough - NO ONE IS CALLING THAT LIVE ACTION. Becasue its not. So why would you call this live action when everything you see if made on a computer.
Because Disney Stans are so drunk on Mickey’s Koolaid that it has eroded their brains
CAUSE UMM DURRE IT AINT TWO DEE SO IT AINT A CARTOON MOOVIE
“Prehistoric Planet” was made by the same CGI team behind “The Lion King” remake, but yet people liked “Prehistoric Planet” better. I guess because the CGI technology was used for something new and original I guess.
@@narottamcecil1803that, and they weren’t trying to make it work with the dinosaurs singing and dancing 😂
I agree 💯 %
They were legit acting like Harry and Meaghan’s marriage took place in a time where interracial marriage was illegal.
I agree that the attention towards them was overdone, but lets not pretend that racism doesn't exist. As well as the fact the whole royal family is white and riddled with incest.
@@alexisg1725 and you think that the royal family watching a remake of Disney movie about talking lions is going to change anything about their colonist ways and pedophile scandals? I agree that they are racist and the tabloids are always crap but to regular, normal people, seeing a white guy with a mixed girl is not a big deal. They don’t even have any real power, they’re just celebrities.
Based on how they ran her out of the family, it might as well have been. Like, clearly it's still a big deal among snooty British people.
@@ruminationstation4200 Nothing to do with her being a person unable or unwilling to behave as a part of the British royal family.
@@Alsemenor Correct, it was nothing to do with that. She was doomed from the start.
This is becoming Adam’s thesis for his masters. He should officially get a degree for the amount of research and commentary done here.
You only work half a year on a master's. This is PhD level at least!
@@SemiIocon man does deserve a doctorate
Jon Favreau's face when he hits that drum makes me laugh so hard. It's like he's thinking "So...does this mean I'm black now?"
As a black person this had me on the floor 🤣 so accurate
It was so pretentious I wanna smack somebody.
But above all he just looks really proud of himself
Favreau: "I swear I'm cool, please tell me I'm cool."
*BLACK BLACK BLACK BLACK*
Disney adults are the absolute worst.
I think this video has proven that Beyoncé Adults are way worse.
@@ThatOneGuy0006 Mixing the two is like mixing ammonia with bleach.
I love Disney so much!
I feel like hitler is pretty bad too
Amen.
You know what actually irritated me? They cut off " be prepared" which was one of the iconic songs of the original. But what's worse is that chitwel ejiofor is a pretty good singer. So you cut the song of a genuinely good singer and then got seth rogen to sing a song
And Pumba wasn't exactly a singer in the first place...
seth rogan has a voice like asbestos and swamp water.
Beep repaired
@@katethegoat7507 **BEEP**
@@PointsofData Atleast in the original movie he actually sounded decent
I love Adam’s “huh-HAA!” laugh
Me too. It’s cute!
he did it right as i read this comment and i gotta say it really adds to the experience
I think he stole it from cool cat lol
18:14
It reminds me of miss krabappel's laugh
I like how the female actress seems as fed up with that beyonce question as Adam does
It must suck to be an actress and work really hard for a role, just to be overlooked because someone is more famous than you. Someone that didn't even put the work in.
"2d animation isn't popular" the man literally said "Arigato japan" in another clip but doesn't realise how popular anime is. wtf?
My god, I just realized Adam's spent the better part of nearly two and a half years making this review. This is going to be fucking gargantuan.
Listen, he's had important shit to do, like tearing down a bunch of dumb Watch Mojo listicles and destroying a law professor's credibility over an old, racist manga.
@@Kevin-jb2pv incredibly important.
Just released now
@@L.CROSS0 When the random UA-cam comment is better at notifying me than the bell I rung specifically to be notified when Adam uploaded. Thanks UA-cam, top rung devs y'all got here.
@@buzzedbeelzebub9454 No way! That’s really funny, have fun watching the video.😄
I don't know if I can make it through this alive. The cringe, the circlejerking. It's pure madness.
The self fellatio, the fart inhalation , oh the humanity
This was a toughie to watch. I'm having to retreat to the comment section to escape the horror
In the circle. The circle of jerk.
Fun Fact: Disney’s Dinosaur from 2000 (A movie that also sucks) integrated photorealistic CG dinosaurs into live-action environments, and yet, that’s still labeled as an animated film despite featuring more live action than Lion King 2019
Oh my God you made me remember Dinosaurs and their scary monkey design....
I like that movie.
It sucked because it was butchered by production who wanted to drop the project. The story should have completely been different and much more mature and messed up.
@@opper4325 it probably didn't help when the executives wanted more child-friendly aspects shoe-horned in. I feel like animation is tossed about as some made for kids when in reality it's an art form, a genre not exclusively for kids. Look at the Black Cauldron. That's a film which tried to be more for adults, but executives meddled with it so much to make the film even worse than it could've been.
Here's the bottom line: Hollywood has that mindset where animation is just for kids and nothing else. I'm personally sick of that.
I haven't seen that film in years, the ride at the theme park was horrifying though I'll never forget that shit
Some people seem to not understand the best part of artistic media like animation is that YOU DONT HAVE TO BE REALISTIC. BE CREATIVE, STRETCH REALITY.
Exactly! That’s how I knew from seeing the trailer that it’ll be very boring. The unrealistic expressions and body movements IS what makes animations like the original so whimsical and fun especially while singing!
@@hazzyhut3755 I think there should always been a mixture of everything mix fiction with reality to things more interesting.
Because "creativity" and "fun" isn't for adults apparently, unless of course it's explicitly intended to be a regurgitation of something they remember as creative and fun in a new grey package that makes them feel like it's mature. I was legitimately told by someone I knew that they thought the remakes are better purely because they're live action/CGI.
51:20 "I mean, it's animated, they don't use real animals or real sets or locations, so yea its the live action version. And Beyonce is amazing and prefect and the Royal family too. Me love Disney, me consume product."
Ooga booga
I remember watching behind the scenes footage of the original film and they got to have actual lion cubs in the studio to study their movements and it was fucking amazing. :'(
@@chewychibi03 apply the paste
"Nala in use" is still my favorite part.
That caught me so off guard. I went through a range of emotions from confusion, to disgust, to humor, to flat out hysteria.
That moment was straight up surreal. I couldn't believe my own eyes
The mindless consumerism of the audience, the complete apathy of the entire staff to produce anything of value and the Hollywood machine blatantly not giving a shit about anyone involved not worth at least 100 million to their faces(Nice to have you here, did you get to touch *_Beyonce_* ?) just makes all of this such a wild trip. It's like watching all the worst of humanity rolled into 1.
you basically just described late stage capitalism.
Don't forget the complete disregard of artistry, because apparently realistic means ’dull’.
@@PSspecialist MUH KAPITAHILIZUM
@@LordVader1094 MUH BILLIONAIRE BOOTS *SLURP SLURP*
I'M CONSOOOOOOMING
@@PSspecialist as shitty as this is communism is infinitely worse
Cannot imagine a 17 year old female McDonald’s employee from Idaho or something getting excited because Beyoncé met Prince harry and the princess at the lion king premiere
36:18 literally kills me because there is still a demographic for 2d movies. i myself and so many people i know would DIE for 2d to make a comeback. We haven't moved on from it, companies just want to push out movies faster and faster and faster and rake in on nostalgia rather than tell an original story with beautiful animation. It's heartbreaking to see, because there are so many people out there that would love to see a resurgence.
disney's biggest fucking mistake was going from 2d to 3d animation. ill go to my grave saying that.
*edit: ill elaborate on this- i can see how it seemed like a good idea at the time due to the fact computer animation was becoming more common and more popular bc ✨wow technology✨ but disney's quality and reputation has just gone downhill in part because of it. its like going from a diet of homemade meals by your mom to eating fast food every day. there's just no love anymore.
I love computer animation, but I still miss 2D animation. It's amazing to see someone draw a character moving frame-by-frame.
@@someidiot420 right on
@@michaelstrong5383 it is. Computer animation is not at all the bad guy here. It's a wonderful medium to tell stories with, and it can and proves to be beautiful in its own way. But I don't know, I feel like, when you spend so much time drawing characters frame-by-frame, there's a bit more care and love put into it because you're completely in charge of how all of it goes together. I'm very, very passionate about 2d animation and it breaks my heart that it's died out like it has.
I have no idea if any of what i said makes sense and if not I apologize, I'm kind of out of it from cold medicine.
just go to anime, a lot of it is cringe but theres some gems in there. they make an absurd amount of it too, theres always at least a few killer shows a year. Movies are a bit less common though.
I'd honestly have to wonder how the rest of the actors and actresses that was apart of this thinks of this entire situation. They were way more involved in all of it than she was, but then being pretty much ignored simply due to her name being in the credits. Just witnessing this is just an awful experience.
They are stoked. I mean, this is the closest to beyonce sitting on their face
I mean, they got paid. They moved on to other projects. They are probably content with their time on the movie, but the optimist in me hopes they feel a little guilt for making a pretty superfluous product.
I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure John Oliver is aware how shitty he was and has made jokes about it
@@PointsofData he is.
@@PointsofData That's more self-awareness than I expect from his ilk.
Hitting the bass drum was probably the only correct, accurate thing John Favreau did for this movie.
It's really unsettling just how much people praise Beyonce likes she's a sort of God. It just sounds like a cult when she's in public with people screaming her name.
Scares me to no end
@@polojuice2432 it's always amusing to me when modern men treat Elvis and the Beatles like god's when past men hated them because the majority of their fanbase were teenage girls.
@@polojuice2432 i mean shes pretty accomplished so its not coming from nowhere. its still weird/creepy but it comes from genuine admiration/respect.
@@polojuice2432 Elvis and Beatles? Eh...
@@fawnieee Difference is they're both venerated nowadays, highly doubt people will remember Beyoncé a century from here on out.
@@fawnieee That was never really true. They both had huge young male fanbases. It was mostly the older generations who hated them if anything.
"Why Beyonce for Nala?"
"'Cause she's amazing. She's Beyonce. I didn't pick her because she's very good. I picked her because she's famous."
Basically what it came down to
The live action vs animated debate makes me irrationally angry
Me too. It shouldn’t even be a debate.
Animated is just better
Has the entire planet forgotten about Dinosaur?
@@troin3925 brooo you just unlocked a memory
@@troin3925 That movie killed a man.
The pharell clips had me livid. Is he not aware of the COLLOSAL missed opportunity that was adàpting the goddamn broadway play? Disney is not doing anything for him, black black black people or anyone else! Hes a perfect mouthpiece of disney's masturbatory accolades. "This is an AFRICAN STORY!!" oh you mean shakespeare?! Hamlet? But he is right that an african story would have been better, AN ORIGINAL IDEA and open up more careers for that arent already established. Africa has always existed in the TLK cinematic Univerese as set dressing. That isnt enough.
If that were james charles saying similar stuff about a live action version cgi mess version of LUCA id be saying the same thing....
Disney is just using you.
This!
Yeah like I love Pharrell and everything he’s done for music, but damn does he just need to stick to producing.
"This is an African story, which is why we cast loads of Americans!"
This.
@@BunkerFox Yeh it's amazing people think a skin colour makes you African when they have absolutely no cultural ties to the continent whatsoever. Equality isn't going to be achieved through Hollywood anyway, even if every director and producer was black it is not reflective of wider society - the priveleged black people are no different to the priveleged white people. Equality does not exist in half measures and it certainly doesn't exist through blockbusters.
I wish people respected and recognized the major differences between acting irl and VOICE acting. That’s why this cast fell so short imo. Star studded, but Donald (as expressive he is irl) was so monotone, and Beyoncé just did not fit at all. And the fact that these were ‘realistic’ cg lions did not help at ALL. Beyoncé played Beyoncé and that’s it.
Literally was about to say something similar as you when Rafiki’s new VA was talking about him; it seems like whenever they talk so passionately about the film, they’re just referring back to the og animated one.
Another thing I always thought; Beyoncé’s inspired album could’ve been stand alone with no association to TLK when compared to Rhythm of The Pridelands by Lebo M, which was a true 2nd part to the og soundtrack.
They talk about Beyoncé the way American politicians used to talk about 9/11.
Lois Griffin: “9/11 was bad.”
Audience: **Mindlessly cheering for her mentioning 9/11**
They're very similar
@@manoz6194 Beyonce inside job
@@manoz6194 bruh?
i really gotta know: how is it to make clips of a guy who makes a review of a movie with Beyoncé in it?
Well, obviously I love it. Because Beyoncé is just so amazing.
Does that even need an explanation? Just think about her eye color, her skin, her hair
SHE'S PERFECT FOR IT
What's bugging the hell out of me is that Ejiofor would definitely have been a better Mufasa than he was as Scar.
Can't do that, they had to bring James Earl Jones out of the care home he's living in to record him embarrasing himself
@@Darkko88 *embalming
@@Darkko88 that got a giggle out of me
What about Keith David? He was awesome in Disney Gargoyles as well as the Princess and the Frog. He could play either Mufasa because his performance of Goliath brought this wise leader to life or Scar because of his singing voice.
@@katethemikufan9109 probably not "famous" enough or some shit. Then again they casted fucking Seth Rogan and John Oliver and I'm pretty sure they aren't A-list (though like Adum said, Oliver has a talk show to further market the movie through)
"More Beyoncé and Donald glover, this movie is gonna make us a bgillion dollars" sums up this entire movie perfectly
God, I can only imagine how many animals died in the making of the 2019 Lion King. It must have been hard to get them to do the correct actions.
PETA liked this
For a second I thought this was the notification for the actual review. Still a fun watch.
I was so ready lol
Same.
What are you talking about? 1:25:15 was not nearly long enough to think it was the real review.
@@rainbowskin3379 talking about the notification at first glance not looking at the page with run time
@@rainbowskin3379 Approximately how long will the actual review be?
Beyonace's aloofness was probably because it was yet another job for her. You listen to the interviews and most of the actors do seem excited to have been part of a production that meant something to them in their childhood, but Beyonce I'm sure was there for the money, showed up exactly as long as necessary, and dipped out because that's what she was hired to do.
That's not really a knock against her, but it's pretty clear that Disney wanted her name attached to the project regardless of her own investment. Probably a similar situation to Emma Watson, where they had ONE PERSON in mind for the role and it was a name they could market, and fuck it if they were actually good. She was 'perfect' because the executives could market her.
It seems nuts to me-- when I heard the casting decision I was mostly confused and a little annoyed-- and I'd figure The Lion King on its own would be enough to be a billion dollars worth of butts in seats. But then you see these promo clips of people losing their minds about her being there, and so many interviews having a side table of "So how FABULOUS was it to work with BEYONCE??!" and I guess her casting did what Disney wanted.
Well for Emma Watson, she was actually quite passionate about BatB and she was very involved in it. From her interview(s) where she said that she always want to play Belle ever since she was a kid to add certain elements to Belle that ended up in the movie. I bet there’s more examples but those are the ones I could think of. Also, I’m not a big fan of live action BatB but I just want to clear up a few things.
You may have a point but her aloofness has to be in part because thats what she has to do to keep her old hollywood type mysticism persona in tact.
(Plus its been implied she doesnt do ANY interviews anymore because shes too shy i guess)
I think she actually wanted to be involved in a disney project with other black folks for her kids since princess and the frog
I mean come on-- I imagine it was her idea to do an entire album for this movie.
Too much effort for a company that will return nothing, girl.
@@jane6799 Even as somebody who thought some of the changes that were made to fit Emma didn't really help the BatB movie, I really do admire how invested she was. Part of the reason I am so thoroughly frustrated with a lot of these remakes is because they have a perfectly good cast and crew who clearly give a damn, yet somehow all the wrong decisions get made along the way (as well as what I assume is a lot of meddling and possible rushing of production from higher-ups) and nothing quite gels. Lost potential sucks more than something that nobody gave a crap about to begin with.
@@arurasky Apparently Beyoncé missed out on the role of Tiana because she refused to audition (like she expected to just get an offer for the part outright). I'm not sure if she was as diva-ish as the tabloids made it out to be, but I'm curious if this means she was just given the role of Nala without auditioning. I don't have any doubts that she was excited either way though, I agree with you that I think she puts on a front.
*”Beyonace” ????* 🤷♀️
It’s extremely sad to watch hours and hours of people hyping Beyoncé up, and then she didn’t show up once in all of the promotional footage.
It’s like inviting the cool kid at school to your birthday party and waiting all night for them to come, to no avail.
beyonce received a lot of backlash earlier on in interviews for the way that she spoke, i believe thats part of the reason she doesnt do them anymore.
@@GhGh-ci8ld she’s the most rich famous loved and powerful woman in the world. She wouldn’t get any backlash for interviews now. She just doesn’t feel like it.
@@maddieb.4282 part of the love IS bc shes so private. when she was still doing interviews people were scrutinizing her all over the place. i still get mad when i think abt that one interview she did while pregnant and people insisted she really wasnt bc her dress folded in an odd way. and to this day that rumor still persists (which to clarify, she WAS pregnant, she did not use a surrogate). and thats how it was, all the time. she's been backed into a corner where she cant even talk to people or make appearances that she hasnt organized previously bc of all the attention on her. i dont think even she can fix it.
@@someidiot420 that’s been a problem all female celebrities seem to face to at least some extent. The rumours people spread and believe get so absurd. I understand her taking steps to reduce it, especially if they’re going to spread lies about her children. Still sucks for the others involved in these projects I think, but the reasoning there makes sense to me.
@@maddieb.4282 I wouldn't feel like promoting Lion King but animated worse either.
Apparently if you've touched Beyonce, you are now a Demi-God
And if Beyonce touches any of us I'm sure she rushes to the closest bathroom to disinfect her hands.
This movie is the literal definition of nostalgia bait.
No shit? Lol
But it wasn't nostalgic at all. They missed it because it was just nauseating. The voice acting was horrific compared to the way they were voiced in the original
Imagine painstakingly animating realistic animals, and then everyone just says it’s live action, and your hard work is undermined
IKR
that’s the thing that pains me, the promotion of this movie discredits both painstaking work of both 2D animators and 3D animators aaaaugh
@@AwesomeJediE oh hey awesomeJediE! Didn’t expect to see you here lol
"you're not going to use live animals so this is the live action version"
WHAT IS WORDS???
I just wasted an hour and a half of my life watching people be vain and/or fake as fuck. Adum's commentary was the only thing that saved this video.
It still gets me that Pharell really thought there was something crazy and groundbreaking about people watching a film set in Africa. 🙄
Dude, there were black and white films set in Africa in the 40s. Plus, this is a remake of a film that came out over 20 years ago that was set in Africa.
The original movie was nominated for Oscars and has been a part of pop culture for years.
Edit: I just noticed he said “an African story” - a movie that was written and directed by American white men? Why don’t you go to a Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie speech if you care about African stories?
Not to mention all the great movies made by African people in Africa
Bro is clearly not familiar with fucking Casablanca lol.
@@sparkfilms558 and the fact the story is based on Shakespeare and Bambi
Look, he's just another old white man breaking new ground in filmmaking, doing things that no one else is doing! Give him a break! I mean, BEYONCE!!!
I figured it's pretty obvious that celebrities on these kind of projects will just say any kinda bullshit to make them seem more important. That's just part of the performance and PR. It's not that deep and he probably doesn't ~believe~ anything about it.
“It recaptures my childhood” then watch the original movie again
I still don't understand my sister and her kids saying they liked the remake better than the original, like what the fuck?? My guess is they haven't seen the animated one in a long time and just got really impressed with the remake because "Omg it looks so real!!!111" and thus decided they liked it better. I hope I can "cure" them with the original someday, lol.
Some people just don't have taste.
i remember walking out of the theater and the car ride home was so silent lmao. like no one had anything to say abt the film
Did you cure them?
The existence of the Lion King remake still baffles me to this day. Say what you will about Disney's other remakes, but they at least tried to do something different with the plot, whether they make sense or not. This remake plays it way too safe and adds nothing to the classic story. What's worse is that the "realistic" animation sucks out all life and emotion to the plot. Unlike the original, I feel absolutely nothing when Simba lies next to his father's dead body because Simba is stone-faced all throughout.
Sorry for this long comment, but much like Adam making his review, I can make an entire essay on all the stuff the Lion King remake did wrong and the fact that it made $1 billion worldwide, making it the highest grossing animated film of all time, hurts me.
It's a live action movie! Unless we're taking about it's revenue... Then it's animated.
If people wanted a shitty version of lion king they can just watch Black Panther
And the few changes that The Lion King remake did were WORSE than the original!
As an artist who’s worked with animation and story boarding it hurts me that Jon pretty much outright disrespects his own animators of this film by instead saying “it’s live action.”
@W Shiflet Ah yes, one of the few animals who's also neighbors with Simba, Timon and Pumbaa, making the idea of the trio as outcasts and loners completely pointless.
I can't wait until Adum gets to the part of his review where he showcases the creepy idolization of Beyonce.
Yeah, I’m very much looking forward to that segment
The only thing I love about Beyonce is her body (I love thicc women) everything else is nothing special at all
A perfect opportunity to edit in "The Holy Mountain" clips
KWEEN BEE!! why do they treat her like she’s the second coming of Christ
the deathly shrieking of her name by the paparazzi scares me a bit, it's so violent. I've never seen them so bloodthirsty
"Why was she the perfect casting for Nala?"
Correct answer: she wasn't, she is just gonna put some butts on those theaters babeeeeh
I've never understood people's obsession with celebrities in general, not just Beyonce
Me neither 😒there just people at the end of day😑
Bro when Michael Jackson was alive people literally fainted in his concerts😂
Musicians I can understand, but certainly only the true alternative musicians, the artists, the ones who started on their own because they have experience that is valuable to their listeners.
Its kinda like a character in a Wattpad fanfic; you can project whatever kinda image you want onto them. Thats what I think
Because most human beings still carry this deeply ingrained pack mentality: "Ooga booga, famous human means very good and important human! Me associate myself with famous human, me look good and important too!"
as a foreigner never understood the crazy idolization of beyonce and at this point im too afraid to ask
I’m an American and I don’t understand it, you’re not alone
She's black, therefore she's better than 90% of humans
/s in case any of you is stupid enough to even think that this comment is serious.
As a bulgarian I too don't understand it
As an Indian (the kinda that lives in India, not an indeginous American) i don't either
As a Brazilian whose parents listened to Kiss before I was alive, I know what real music is
Adum should go full Nostalgia Critic and rent a movie teather to premiere the review when it's done.
That dude singing in front of John Favreau kills my soul
Being Beyonce makes you an inherently better voice actress, as we know
Sometimes you hear "Beyonce" so much the word loses all meaning.
that's why she doesn't even seem real anymore, she's been turned into a cartoon.
Much like the lyrics to half of her songs.
Wait, it had meaning?!
This was a surprisingly depressing, in depth look at a section of society I didn't even know existed.
aka most of it
You'll have to be more specific about what section of society you mean. The ones obsessed with Beyonce? The brain dead journalists with the softest ball questions? The ones who this type of promotion was made for??
@@doubtfulhenry Mainly the people obsessed with Beyonce and the royal family. At some point in the video Adam says something like 'I knew there were people like this but I didn't know it was THIS BAD' which is pretty much my exact sentiment
About half way in and we're still not over that whole Beyoncé thing...
I'm starting to reconsider suicide. This video is REALLY depressing......
@@chanceneck8072 You guys are being incredibly dramatic lmao. There's no reason to get blackpilled over some random promo reel that hardly anyone actually watched.
This goes beyond The Lion King. This is a perfect little capsule explaining why our species is so fucking stupid. I'll watch this whenever I feel alone in my frustrations
God why is everyone so obsessed with Beyonce?! She's just fine looking and her music is whatever why is everyone treating her like a literal god?! It's honestly super creppy
She's had marketers curate her existence to be attractive to damaged morons, which is a substantial chunk of the US population.
@@NoPantsBaby And because Jay Z is using his influence in the music industry to promote her
Yeah I agree. I do like lemonade a lot though
I get she’s a legend in the music world. But seriously she’s not even the main character of this movie , yet she was some giant selling point.
Lots of people here are coping hard in the replies. Beyoncé is a great artist. I’m not a fan. I really couldn’t care, but she has a great music catalogue and her performances are next level. People on here saying it’s cause she’s woke or cause of Jay Z are ass backwards lol
So Adum, how does it feel to edit a movie with Beyonce in it?
I can tell you it's amazing to watch a video that had Beyonce in it
How does it feel to live in the same universe as Beyoncé?
All this Beyonce talks reminds me of Homer Simpson talking about Poochie.
"Everytime Beyonce is not on the screen, everyone should go 'where is Beyonce!?'"
The level of reverence for Beyoncé in these clips is unreal. This is Rich Evans fucking a droid in a Darth Vader helmet energy.
It BROKE new GROOOUUNND
“Describe the film in 3 words.”
Ooh, I know: _soulless corporate cashgrab_
man.. i thought the orignal promo cringe was just off the chain, ridiculous, great, it still is! but this is just insaaanely awesome
you mean for the original movie?
if so, could you link to that? would love to watch
@@anthonyhenriques7654 I mean the original promo cringe videos that were uploaded to this channel. This video is basically a supercut of all them. If you wanna watch them, they’re in the “the lion king” playlist on this channel.
@@houseofleaves126 oh okay no been watching all this promo cringe for the past 2 years I mistook what you said as him watching promo cringe for the original 93 movie lol I got all excited for nothing
Yeah, half an hour in and we're still not over the Beyoncé thing.
I'm reconsidering suicide right now.....
@@anthonyhenriques7654 Jurassic Park was 93. Lion King was 94!
Celebrity worship is so disgusting. I hope we can finally move past this stupid mindset. Beyoncé soy, soy, soy.
What else are we going to worship? God? lol
@@Jumbleman5 how about we don't worship anything? i'd like to think we reached that point in our evolution where it is no longer necessary
It only gets worse as time goes on, it is disgusting but we're stuck with it forever.
@@Jumbleman5 abviously ill worship muh waifu
@@666FallenShadow Nah, I worship the universe's most powerful being.
The only thing with true power...Money
You know it's a bunch of self-serving bullshit when they cut to different celebrities saying, "The Lion King" over and over. Also, parasocial celebrity relationships are extremely creepy. The way Beyonce is revered as some sort of perfect goddess is just insane.
I remember going to the theaters to see “Lion King” (2019) about two weeks after it was released.
I went into the theater, (it’s a pretty big, normal theater) and when the movie started, there were like 2 other people in the theater. I remember this, because I felt confident enough to talk to myself in my regular volume while the movie was playing.
Were you like, "Dude, Pride Rock!" when they showed it?
So....what did you talk with yourself about? 😄
@@johannesseyfried7933 maybe any thoughts or criticism he had about the film.
@@johannesseyfried7933 Probably about putting a bullet in the cast.
9:45 This poor woman comes to a red carpet to be asked about Beyonce and Beyonce only
Adam... please don't give up on this review. Patiently waiting for this to drop.
he's in too deep now
He's already done with the first half of it. He's said the second half is shorter because he did introductions for cast members. I don't think that's how halves work 🤷 but he's in the home stretch
This review is gonna be the best thing to happen this year
Good news
Guess what... :D
"Beyoncé was probably like half the budget"
That most likely isn't even that far-fetched.
Hanz being completely drunk in that one interview was hilarious.
@13:44 the problem with these stupid interviews is that they're not allowed to ask challenging questions that makes the actors/ crew pause because they got hundreds more interviews to go. If the interviewer asks any question they haven't heard a thousand times the publicists will make sure they never do an interview again. Imagine having to interview someone while there's someone in your line of sight (off camera) constantly judging you waiting for a mistake. It's such a pathetic system
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That kinda reminds me of Homelander from the Boys, oddly enough
@The Passing Static yeah... that's how it works.. everything is fake
@@thepassingstatic6268 it probably should, since The Boys show parodied shit like this
When you watch these older clips you really start to see how much this movie has broken Adam :D
Dude, Pride Rock!
So that’s why the review is taking so long. He needs mental health breaks.
@@frederickshaibani5655 "mbeep"
Seems like Beyonce was the only one who didn't want to participate and promote this movie. She just showed up for the check and did the minimum amount of work. Respect
To be fair nobody else wanted to promote this movie either, they were more interested in promoting Beyonce.
"Harry and Meghan *did* get the chance to meet Beyonce." Oh good for them! 🙄
19:47 I appreciate the Content Warning for James Corden.
I can't wait for the next full length YMS review, which will not for the Lion King, but will be for Beyonce's discography which Adam will listen to in preparation for talking about Beyonce in this film
I’d even settle for just watching Lemonade, honestly - tbh it's really fascinating seeing Beyoncé takes from people she’s not “for.” I'm definitely who she's for and I would absolutely hesitate to guillotine Queen B when the class war comes. I mean she's still a billionaire so I would still let the blade go brrrrr, but the fact that I would even pause says a lot.
Hello every, Adumthony Jontano here, music's busiest gay furry, and today we're doing something a bit different.
Fancy seeing you here!
@@Clownacy Hello!
No he will be debunking the myth that there were two other girls in Destiny's Child with Beyonce.
One, Beyonce needs to be louder, angrier, and have access to a time machine. Two, whenever Beyonce's not onscreen, all the other characters should be asking 'Where's Beyonce?
They always ask “where’s Beyoncé?” But never “Why Beyoncè” 🤧
@@moth300 I've been asking "Why Beyoncé" for decades.
How did they manage to make Donald Glover more bland than Matthew Broderick?
I’m gonna watch through this whole thing to see if Beyoncé was ever actually interviewed! They say her name so goddamn much I’d be amazed if they didn’t
She appears so uninterested in the whole thing too, as if doing this movie was beneath her
Has Beyonce ever actually been in a movie besides Austin Powers 3?
@@somethingwithultra7231 She appeared in that 2006 Pink Panther movie with Steve Martin! A role in which she had extremely limited screen time despite being billed on The poster!
That should say something about how her fame is more of a pull than her acting range.
@@dylanmcartoonell1536 I truly don't understand why she is so elite compared to any other popular singer. I mean I get she's married to Jay Z and she's plenty talented but if I'm being honest her music is just alright. I just don't get why she's on this absolutely insane pedestal
@@anthonyhenriques7654 I don't really understand either?
Like seeing the paparazzi totally ignore every other celeb then SHRIEK HER NAME LIKE WILD ANIMALS the minute she walks up is so bizarre, they only ask about her and everyone just SCREAMS her name and loses their damn minds
Like she's not bad but I don't understand this godly worship and rabid obsession for her either, it's kind of creepy?
I don't understand why everyone is so insanely rabid about her in particular in comparison to any other celeb/singer
"The Lion Beyoncé (2019) was the greatest Disney film of all time" 😏
My top five is
5 - The Lion Beyoncé
4 - The Bey Movie
3 - The Beyoncé and the Beast
2 - Bey•é
1 - Freddy Got Fingered
@Vault Dweller The Bey Movie was peak entertainment so I approve 😏
No it needs to be "Beyonce's the Lion King (2019) with bonus Beyonce content" because people need to know that Beyonce is in it and she is the only thing that matters
I'm so glad you're not afraid to speak about Beyoncé lmao, there really does feel like this veil of ~perfect~ that people throw on her, when really it just seems like she does what she needs to do for her career and keeps everything else very private. While I can respect it, I don't understand her fanbase.
Your part 1 of the movie in whole really opened my eyes to just how bad it really was, I was coming at it from the expression point of view (why are you making this movie if you're not going to properly tell the story, with emotion!), and when you pointed out mostly James Earl Jones' voice it blew my mind. I love that he was willing to come back and help, but I now believe he should have only re-voiced Mufasa when he was speaking to Simba through the clouds, if they were willing to use his younger voice for some bits, why not just all of it? He's an actor, if you explained it to him respectfully, he seems like the kind of person who would understand.
So that “Spirit” song would’ve worked wayyy better in a live action _Spirit: Stallion of the Cimmaron_ remake than any lion king iteration.
I hate how this movie made over $1 billion at the box office…says a lot about our society and the kind of films people are choosing to support…
We live in a society
@@eatupyoveggies where honor is a distant memory
That makes me want to commit society.
Well at least Mulan failed trying to appeal to China
@@carter_lovejoy isn’t that right... bAtMAn????
What makes the reaction segment even better is the react videos are all just acted out. And any real reactions are edited out of the video. So the "wow. Dude pride rock" is what the fine bros think is a good natural reaction
America's obsession with Beyoncé is so creepy. She is essentially a demigod there.
You can see this is actually physically hurting him after a while
Poor guy, puting himself through all this for us
13:29 The interview is with Studio Movie Grill. Guarantee you that some executive told her to include a question about "Sharing a meal and watching a movie" because it's going to be their company focus for the quarter.
Take a shot every time they say Beyoncé, and you’ll be more shitfaced than Hans Zimmer
"I feel like this look is very lion king.."
*camera pulls out to reveal full black face*
I love how all these actors are talking about the characters IN THE ORIGINAL FILM. I feel so bad for James Earl Jones too, he just looks so out of it.