Disney's latest retelling of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book is best watched on the big screen and if you have some extra money to spare for 3D or IMAX then by all means go. Not since Avatar has the movies ever come up with a beautifully created world and not since The Life of Pi has there ever been CGI created animals brought to life vibrantly than this film which does not divert too much from the 1967 Disney classic.
Most of us already know the story of Mowgli played by newcomer Neel Sethi, a "human-cub" raised by wolves whose parents are voiced by Giancarlo Esposito and Lupita Nyong'o after the panther Bagheera voiced by Ben Kingsley entrusted him to them for better protection when he found him all alone in the jungle when Mowgli was just a toddler, after his father was killed by the tiger Shere Khan voiced with such evil authority by Idris Elba on an expedition. Guided by Bagheera and the bear Baloo voiced by Bill Murray to bring him to his fellow humans when the tiger came back to seek revenge, the three encounter different situations and meet different animals such as the slithering snake Kaa voiced with seductive perfection by Scarlett Johansson and King Louie the ape voiced by Christopher Walken.
Director Jon Favreau's (Iron Man 1 and 2) take on The Jungle Book is much more engaging than recent Disney live action remakes of their animated classics and it some instances jolting. I sometimes have to close my eyes at some scenes for you know that some predator might surprise Mowgli from the unlikeliest of places in the deep jungle. It's good fun but I know that some little kids might get scared. It's great too
that the film also used some of the songs from the animated version that I'm pretty sure that parents who grew up watching it will sing along much to the amazement of their kids.
This film was a visual Marvel. Nice review.
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