This seems like a bit of a curious choice given how beloved the songs, penned by legendary songwriters the Sherman Brothers, of the original film are. The structure is also different from the original animated classic, because unlike that film, the new Jungle Book is not a musical, and has a somewhat more serious tone. The story it presents may be familiar, but it's told in a new way with striking and beautiful visuals.

All Rights Reserved.Disney's new live action/computer animated hybrid Jungle Book movie is unlike anything audiences have ever seen before - despite being a reboot of a nearly 50-year-old film. It’s a family entertainment made mainly for the worldly kids of today, junior citizens who are all too familiar with violence and wise in the ways of the media jungle, but who, being kids, will still be awed by the movie’s graphic and dramatic power.Ĭopyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. The new production, computer-animated except for a living, breathing boy at the center of the action, isn’t pretty or sweet but utterly stunning, as well as very funny all those vaudeville antecedents haven’t been forgotten. Once again Mowgli runs through the jungle in a red loincloth in Disney’s re-imagining-and huge re-energizing-of “The Jungle Book.” Yet this latest version makes the 1967 animated classic look like kid stuff-sweet and lovely stuff, fondly remembered for its pretty pastel drawings, its show-bizzy humor and its benign take on the jungle as a pleasant place, notwithstanding a nasty tiger and a silly, sibilant snake.

Watch a film clip from 'The Jungle Book,' starring Neel Sethi, Bill Murray and Ben Kingsley.

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