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As Eric wrote, Mowgli meets Kaa (a huge python), Baloo (a large bear) and King Louie (a giant ape) in a series of vignettes all the while being hunted by the evil tiger Shere Khan.īaloo is the most changed of all the main characters. Most of the characters and many of the adventures from the book are included here but they're changed in a way that doesn't improve them. The animals have very little personality and the depth of feeling conveyed on the pages of the book is nowhere to be found in this too-serious, uneven mess of a movie. This Jungle Book has no sense of fun or wonder to it.
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It didn't take long into the movie before I had my answer. I wondered if (and hoped) they would be able to capture the magic of these stories and not just the lush look of this CGI jungle. If only Jon Favreau could have better worked the songs or maybe even left them out all together to avoid comparison.Īs a huge lifelong fan of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book and both the 1967 Disney cartoon and the 1942 Technicolor live-action version with Sabu as Mowgli, I was looking forward to this movie with some anticipation. The Jungle Book has plenty going on to capture your child's attention and moves along at a quick enough pace to hold it.
The less said about Christopher Walken's slowed down, dramatic version of Louis Prima's "I Wanna Be Like You" the better. Here, Bill Murray and Sethi sing it without any of the pluck and half the celebration that made the song so catchy. It was the forerunner of Hakuna Matata in The Lion KIng (1994). One of the biggest highlights of the 1967 film was the joyous version of, "The Bare Necessities."In Broadway terms, it was the showstopper. With the exception of Scarlett Johansson, as Kaa, telling Mowgli to, "Trust in me," The only songs to make the final cut are "The Bare Necessities" and "I Wanna Be Like You". I looked forward to the famous songs in anticipation that they would lighten the mood. Here he never forgets and rarely gets a break from someone trying to abduct, threaten or eat him. Mowgli walked through that film fairly oblivious to the real danger he was in.
After Mowgli runs through the jungle with a burning torch, I half expected Baloo to turn to the camera and say, "Only you can prevent forest fires." It never gets preachy but a point is definitely being made.Īlthough the adventure is elevated and a moral about embracing your own abilities is taught, the amount of fun, so prevalent in the 1967 cartoon, often feels missing. Not only does Mowgli face dangerous animals but Mowgli learns that he is likewise a dangerous creature. Then, of course, there is his final confrontation with the evil Shere Kahn. Louie chases Mowgli through his monkey place, tearing it apart and nearly killing Mowgli in the process. Kaa comes awfully close to suffocating him in her coils. They begin a journey and an adventure that puts Mowgli face to face with Shere Khan, Kaa, a large hungry snake, the friendly bear Baloo and King Louie, a gigantic orangutan, whose initial appearance on screen pays homage to Marlon Brando's first scene in Apocalypse Now (1979). Mowgli was found and given to the wolves to raise by the black panther, Bagheera, who now decides that Mowgli must return to the man village for his safety. Mowgli is a boy raised by wolves in the Indian jungle after his father was killed by the tiger, Shere Khan, who years later still wants revenge on Mowgli as he wears the scars on his face from where Mowgli's father burnt him with the red flower (fire). Still, as my brother Patrick often notes, no matter how detailed, CGI lacks the soul of a real living breathing creature. It is easy to get lost in the adventure of this movie as the look is so convincing even if it is obvious that Sethi never shared a single scene with another single living creature. I found those facts annoying because the movie wants to be one thing but is actually another.
The story takes place in India, but it was entirely filmed in Los Angeles. Even the locations in the film are computer-generated. The animal characters were performance puppets and later animated over or just animated all together. In fact, there were no animals even on set. Although he has all animal co-stars he never filmed a single scene with any real animal. This new version of the Disney animated classic The Jungle Book is being touted as a live action film, but It can just barely be called that as the only live thing on the screen is Neel Sethi, who plays Mowgli. Baloo and Mowgli, played by Neel Sethi, in The Jungle Bopok
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