Sometimes, the graphics look so good that your brain struggles to make sense of why they don’t look better (Pride Rock, we learn, is located deep inside the uncanny valley).

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Instead, this soulless chimera of a film comes off as little more than a glorified tech demo from a greedy conglomerate - a well-rendered but creatively bankrupt self-portrait of a movie studio eating its own tail. Unfolding like the world’s longest and least convincing deepfake, Jon Favreau’s (almost) photorealistic remake of “ The Lion King” is meant to represent the next step in Disney’s circle of life.

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