Of all of the impressive details to appear on screen in Disney’s live-action adaptation of “The Jungle Book,” none is more startling than a title card at the close of the end credits reading: “Filmed in Downtown Los Angeles.” So immersively does the film’s visual-effects team cra...
The Jungle Book: Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman. With Phil Harris, Sebastian Cabot, Bruce Reitherman, George Sanders. Bagheera the Panther and Baloo the Bear have a difficult time trying to convince a boy to leave the jungle for human civilization.
The Jungle Book: Directed by Stephen Sommers. With Jason Scott Lee, Cary Elwes, Lena Headey, Sam Neill. Rudyard Kipling's classic tale of Mowgli, the orphaned jungle boy raised by wild animals, and how he becomes king of the jungle.
In the end, I honestly feel perplexed at all the praise the film received. Again, I think it's decent but it never becomes better than that, so it fails to create a particularly vivid adventure. The Disc Grades: Picture A-/ Audio A-/ Bonus B- The Jungle Book appears in an aspect...
The Jungle Book 2: Directed by Steve Trenbirth. With John Goodman, Haley Joel Osment, Mae Whitman, Connor Funk. Mowgli, missing the jungle and his old friends, runs away from the man village unaware of the danger he's in by going back to the wild.
The opening ofthe 1967The Jungle Bookfeatures a worn hardcover book laying atop a blue velvet background that opens to reveal black-and-white illustrations and the names of the film’s key players. Notably, the film has no closing sequence featuring the book, a simple “The End” card doin...
The Jungle Book isn’t perfect, but it’s a joy to watch, and in some ways it’s a wonder that it exists at all. It would be nice to think that, along with Cinderella, it marks the beginning of a trend, and that this might bode well for next year’s Beauty and the Beast. ...
The beguilingly credible CGI rendering of real-life animals takes its biggest leap forward since Life of Pi in Disney’s new telling of The Jungle Book. Exceptionally beautiful to behold and bolstered by a stellar vocal cast, this umpteenth film rendition of Rudyard Kipling’s tales of young ...
I saw the newest Disney version of “The Jungle Book” in the company of my enthralled 12-year-old son, and there were moments when I envied him—but not too many, because the film is so surefooted in its effects, so precise and simple in its characterizations, and so clear about what...
The Jungle Book 2: Directed by Steve Trenbirth. With John Goodman, Haley Joel Osment, Mae Whitman, Connor Funk. Mowgli, missing the jungle and his old friends, runs away from the man village unaware of the danger he's in by going back to the wild.