I don't have s lot of time to respond to everything right now, but CGW your review really sounds a lot like how I first felt, I was so underwhelmed.

The more I think about the movie, the more I find things to like about it, and the more specific my dislikes are. For example the emotions, but more particularly in certain scenes than others.

Did not even think about the Zazu plot hole!

I did actually read an interesting article/blog post by someone who had never seen the original TLK:

https://www.cnet.com/news/i-watched-...ome-questions/

Simba definitely does suffer in the new version, especially as an adult, his emotional "trial" and figuring out what's going on etc is just lacking.