Giving us everything but a chorus of The Circle of Life, this sucrose-enriched live-action picture from Disney is about two big cat families: lions and cheetahs. It's the kind of sweet tale from the animal kingdom that Disney has been bringing out for a long time, but modern audiences – used to a more straightforward and less Hollywoodised approach from David Attenborough – are entitled to wonder if the storylines have been contoured in the editing suite, with growling and sound effects overdubbed. The narration from Patrick Stewart gives the big cats names like "Fang" and "Kali", but unless the film-makers speak lion, we have to assume these names were given to them by humans – but which humans? There are none around. Some nice moments here, but this is a film that looks like a kids' TV featurette from an earlier age.