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    'The Lion King': Is it animated or live-action? It's complicated

    by Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times Jul 23, 2019 4 minutes

    In the run-up to last weekend's release of the highly anticipated remake of "The Lion King," the film was generally referred to as a live-action reinterpretation of the 1994 animated classic, the latest in a string of such films Disney has released in recent years, including "Cinderella," "Beauty and the Beast" and "Dumbo."

    But if you think about it for more than two seconds, that can't possibly be an accurate description, because - the last time we checked - lions, hyenas, meerkats and warthogs don't actually talk. Or dance. Or burst into song.

    So "The Lion King" should actually be categorized as an animated film, albeit one using cutting-edge

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