10 Most Pointless Movies Ever Made

10. The Lion King (2019)

Disney's ongoing spate of "live-action" remakes of their most beloved animated films have proven wildly divisive with audiences, who've been drawn in by the obvious nostalgia factor and often left unmoved by the actual end result.

And is that any more apparent than with Jon Favreau's 2019 update of The Lion King? The 1994 animated original remains such a gorgeous, brilliantly crafted piece of work that remaking it seemed like a fools' errand, as it indeed ultimately proved itself to be.

The big issue is that translating the extremely expressive animated characters into a more "realistic" live-action/CGI format was always going to result in said expressiveness being tamped down. The cartoonish charm of the central characters is clipped away almost entirely, and to make matters worse, seeing extremely photorealistic animals speak with human voices causes the whole enterprise to tumble straight into the uncanny valley.

Sure, the point of the film from Disney's perspective is its eye-watering $1.657 billion box office haul, but it's telling that even just five years after release, is anyone really talking about this hollow, soulless remake at all, especially in fond terms?

As such, it'll certainly be interesting to see how upcoming prequel-sequel Mufasa: The Lion King performs in relation to its predecessor.