Okay so i just saw the new movie... as someone who is a fan of the franchise & has seen all 4 movies + TV series, I was curious to see if they would succeed with the live-action.
For the most part, it is a faithful adaptation of the original animated film, however there are still quite a few changes (most unnecessary). Also a lot of things left out, some big & some small. I won't even spoiler tag the differences to give you all the entire weekend to go see it.
It was cute & enjoyable, but due to some of the changes or things left out, it did kinda lose it's heart. It is still emotional, but it just lacked some of the impact due to missing dialogue.
Yes this is becoming long-winded, but I'm trying to talk about it in a spoiler free way haha. I do recommend seeing it.. it ranks up there with Jungle Book & Aladdin when it comes to the recent live-actions.
Unfortunately, Myrtle doesn't get the beat down she deserves. And also David wears a shirt too often. So there's that