The Jungle Book
Tags: good versus evil, flashback

Plot synopsis:
The panther Bagheera (voice of Ben Kingsley) opens the film by saying that there are many stories in the jungle, but none quite like that of the man-cub Mowgli (Neel Sethi). Mowgli is seen running through the jungle above the trees with his wolf brothers. Since he was a baby, Mowgli has grown up with the wolf pack, raised by Raksha (voice of Lupita Nyong'o).The jungle experiences a very dry season, so the animals come together by the Peace Rock to form a truce and drink water from there. Mowgli uses the shell of a fruit to grab water for himself, which makes the other animals see him oddly. The wolf pack leader Akela (voice of Giancarlo Esposito) tells Mowgli not to use his man tricks in front of the other animals. The crows then begin to caw, signaling the arrival of the fearsome tiger Shere Khan (voice of Idris Elba). He is aware of Mowgli's presence, and he considers man to be forbidden in the jungle. Akela covers Mowgli and tells Shere Khan he cannot have the boy. Shere Khan vows to come for Mowgli once the rivers run again.Knowing the jungle isn't safe for Mowgli anymore, Akela and the other wolves discuss his future there. Bagheera volunteers to take him back to the man village, despite Raksha's protests. The others agree it's for the best, and Mowgli shares a goodbye with Raksha, who says he will always be her son.Bagheera guides Mowgli toward the village, but once they come across a field of buffaloes, they are ambushed by Shere Khan. Bagheera holds the tiger off for Mowgli to run. Mowgli runs down a hill as the buffaloes stampede. Shere Khan tries to spot Mowgli, but the boy escapes.Shere Khan returns to the Peace Rock to confront the wolves. He mauls Akela and throws him off the cliff. The tiger then assumes leadership over the other animals and awaits for Mowgli to return.Now wandering alone through the jungle, Mowgli comes across a huge snakeskin that has recently been shed. He soon meets the python Kaa (voice of Scarlett Johansson). She puts Mowgli under her spell with her hypnotic voice and eyes. Kaa tells Mowgli of where he came from. He was an infant when his father came across a cave in the jungle and protected him from Shere Khan with the "red flower" (fire). Mowgli's father blinded Shere Khan in his left eye, and the tiger killed the man. Bagheera would eventually find little Mowgli. Kaa wraps herself around Mowgli and prepares to eat him until she is attacked by another animal, forcing her to release Mowgli.Mowgli wakes up and meets the bear Baloo (voice of Bill Murray). Since he saved Mowgli's life, he asks the boy to help him gather some honey from up above a cliff. Mowgli breaks off the honeycomb, but gets stung a few times in the process. Thankful, Baloo takes Mowgli under his wing (or paw) and they form a friendship. Baloo shows Mowgli that the man village is nearby and that he can go whenever he wants, but Mowgli decides to stick with Baloo, who shows Mowgli all about the "bare necessities of life".Bagheera encounters Mowgli and Baloo. Baloo claims that Mowgli is helping him hibernate for the winter, until Bagheera points out that bears don't hibernate in the jungle. The panther still wants to get Mowgli to safety.At night, Mowgli comes across a herd of elephants. Baloo and Bagheera see this and get worried until they watch Mowgli help a baby elephant out of a hole. Bagheera tells Baloo how Shere Khan is after Mowgli and that he needs to get to safety. Reluctantly, Baloo tells Mowgli he never thought of him as a friend and wants him gone. Heartbroken, Mowgli retreats to a tree. A small monkey starts to bother Mowgli, and soon, more monkeys show up and capture him. Baloo and Bagheera see this and follow.The monkeys bring Mowgli to the temple of King Louie (voice of Christopher Walken), a massive orangutan. Louie claims he can protect Mowgli, but he wants to learn the secret of the red flower and thinks Mowgli can deliver it to him. Mowgli says he cannot, sending Louie into a rage. Baloo and Bagheera arrive in the nick of time and fight Louie's monkeys while Louie chases Mowgli. Louie taunts Mowgli by telling him that Akela has been killed, which Bagheera knew about. As Louie tries to get Mowgli, he runs through his temple, causing it to crumble and crush him.Infuriated that Bagheera didn't tell him about Akela, Mowgli runs away. He enters the man village undetected and takes a burning torch back into the jungle. As he runs back, the other animals see him with the fire and follow. A piece of ember falls from the torch and slowly starts a fire.Mowgli confronts Shere Khan as the other animals gather to watch. Shere Khan tries to turn the animals against Mowgli by stating that man has brought the red flower into the jungle. Mowgli tosses the torch right before Baloo and Bagheera show up. They, along with the other animals, stand by Mowgli and against Shere Khan. Baloo battles Shere Khan as Mowgli runs toward the trees. Shere Khan takes Baloo down, but before he can kill him, Raksha and the other wolves attack Shere Khan.Mowgli sets up a trap in the trees and waits for Shere Khan. The tiger climbs the tree and walks the branch where Mowgli is standing. The boy tells Shere Khan he is not afraid of him. The tiger pounces after Mowgli as the branch snaps. Mowgli jumps to safety, but as Shere Khan goes after him, he ends up falling and is consumed by the fire. Mowgli returns to the other animals, and the river starts to flow, putting out the fire.Mowgli is seen running with his wolf brothers again and is reunited with them and Raksha. Baloo now lives close with Mowgli and the other animals, and he says he could get used to this.

Review: Along the way, Mowgli learns valuable life lessons as his epic journey of self-discovery leads to fun and adventure.Disney Picture is the best company in making top and number 1 family movies.Everything is excellent about this movie.I guarantee you this top movie will win too many Oscars..
The Jungle Book is a live-action/CGI fantasy film that retells the story of Mowgli, an orphaned human boy who, guided by his animal guardians, sets out on a journey of self-discovery while evading the threatening Shere Khan.
I think the main reason as to why this movie worked it's because it also has a very good story line that's mixed in with the amazing visuals.
I've never been a fan of the original Jungle Book movie, but I did grow up watching it, and I did like it.
The wolves got more screen time, Kaa got a lot more dangerous (though she doesn't have as much screen time, which is my only complaint in this movie), King Louie is more sinister and less comical, and Shere Khan is a flat-out beast.I'm also glad that they brought back three songs I enjoyed as a kid.
Kudos to the visual effects team, for making a live-action adaptation of a movie like The Jungle Book.
Soon Mogwli realizes that since he is human he needs to live with humans.Yet,he can not abandon his loyal Animals who have already taken care of him since he was a baby."The Jungle Book" 2016 has a different,but an amazing ending than "The Jungle Book" 1967.I can guarantee that you will see a perfect movie with Great Graphics IMAX Effect and The Best 3D I Have Ever Seen.I really estimate Disney for their support of Lesbian and Gays.Disney is Simply The Best..
To those who still hold any degree of skepticism for Jon Favreau's The Jungle Book—Disney's live-action adaptation of the Rudyard Kiplingclassic—I say just sing along to "Forget about your worries and your strife" That's a guaranteed earworm from this really good film.
Complete with splendid sound design and flabbergasting CGI wizardry, director Favreau, with cinematographer Bill Pope, deftly crafts this spectacle not only to dazzle viewers but also to enhance its dramatic agenda.With an excellent voice cast, The Jungle Book presents a colorful array of memorable characters.
Considering that he is basically working within the confines of his imagination and a green screen room for the entire film, he manages to make everything believable: the beauty and danger of the jungle, his kinetic and charismatic character, and his deep connection with the animals.
Jon Favreau knows the divine quality of the works and he gives us that and more and more and more.....I thought Disney's Zootopia has reached an epoch in CGI, but The Jungle Book is definitely the crowned jewel.
The film also awkwardly acknowledges its own pointlessness: since the only way to "improve" on the original is to make everything faster, louder and bigger, serpent Ka is bigger than even Anaconda's titular joke was, and Louie could take King Kong in a fight, while the climactic jungle fire setting the scene for Mowgli's showdown with Khan could probably, in this incarnation, be visible from space.So there you have it, a tale full of sound and fury, told by idiots etc, as the poet said.
This movie got High Rating by critics, a lots of them put it as number one in 2016 (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_jungle_book_2016) so I expected nothing but perfect, Unfortunately it was disappointing.
Disney is truly the best children movie company in the whole world.Mogwli is a Little Indian boy living in the Jungle .
Directed by Jon Favreau (Iron Man), based on Rudyard Kipling's timeless stories and inspired by Disney's classic animated film, The Jungle Book is an all-new live-action epic adventure about Mowgli (newcomer Neel Sethi), a man-cub who's been raised by a family of wolves.
Along the way, Mowgli encounters jungle creatures who don't exactly have his best interests at heart, including Kaa (voice of Scarlett Johansson), a python whose seductive voice and gaze hypnotizes the man-cub, and the smooth-talking King Louie (voice of Christopher Walken), who tries to coerce Mowgli into giving up the secret to the elusive and deadly red flower: fire.This is a terrific must see movie.
.. Nostalgia is a powerful thing, the original Jungle Books has been adored by many, be it the animation or movie interpretations.
The new rendition takes the expectation and rises beyond with emotionally engaging and larger-than-life characters, which is no small feat considering it relies on sole child actor Neel Sethi while the rest of the veteran cast lend their voices for the animal kingdom.Story follows Mowgli (Neel Sethi) on his two feet as he ventures around the thick jungle.
Having grown up with the original cartoon version (1967) was expecting something much better than what I saw years ago when I was a kid, this version leaves much to be desired, photography & Visual FX are horrible,they abused the overexposing of the image almost all the time trying get a high key but they fail badly,and even worse in dark scenes the lighting was so bad, they should play with a more real natural illumination instead the forced digital light they used all time, There is no real performance of the main character the child, expressionless and flat emotions throughout the development of the story.
Jon Favreau's Jungle Book exists in a world that is somewhere between the animated feature film and the 1994, historically grounded, live action film.The result is a beautifully bland movie.
This is not a warm, well told story, with interwoven charm and wisdom, it's an kid friendly action/adventure in the jungle with lots of animated effects.I kinda knew it when I saw the trailers, but there is a strong vibe that the Jungle Book would much rather be an experience, than a movie.
Even though there is nothing technically wrong with the CGI, the movie makes some bad choices which destroys the illusion of having animals as real as say the Tiger in Life of Pi. Like their animated counter parts, the cast of this Jungle Book have animated lips, making them un-compatible with the very real world they live in.
There are also too many stagy sequences featuring unrealistic numbers of animals, which in the 21st century wouldn't even convince an eight year old that CGI wasn't needed.The film makes another very poor decision to include two of the original musical numbers but minus the one element that would make them worth while; the actors can't sing.
At the center of the story, the film is bolstered by its only human character, Mowgli (Neel Seethi), and his immersive adventure with his animal friends in the jungle.
The scenery of this movie was very beautiful, as were all the animated characters, but the kid acting as the main actor was terrible and I am shocked at how they could choose someone like that.
(I should note that I saw the dubbed German version; I'm pretty sure the original voice cast is much better but that won't make the fundamental flaws disappear.) The animals look and move incredibly real but they talk like humans.
This film has insanely brilliant visuals-the animals, the forest and Mowgli himself looks a lot like what you'd imagine but despite having such an amazing voice cast, the characters just don't work nearly as well as the 1967 film.
With an amazing voice over cast - and some singing surprises - Never have you seen a version of this movie more enjoyable and surprising - With plenty of action and amazing CGI - this movie will bring out the Bare Necessities in you - Take a walk down memory lane with all of the characters from the original - and then you will be rushing to IMDb to give it 10/10 stars - Even if you don't love the story of the Jungle Book - this movie can enchant the smallest heart..
For those of you who haven't seen Walt Disney's animated version of The Jungle Book--or haven't seen it in awhile, anyway--I'm sure you still know the famous songs, and perhaps even some classic scenes.
But with a runtime that could have used a few more minutes, there's always been some things missing.Definitely an improvement on the original, 2016's The Jungle Book fills out the classic story in a much more complete way.With this one, we get answers to a lot of characters' motives, as well as more realistic responses to drastic life changes.There's backstory provided for why Shere Khan wants to kill Mowgli, along with a more heartfelt goodbye as Mowgli leaves his wolf pack at the beginning of the film.Neel Sethi, who plays Mowgli, passes the cute test.
This latest Disney offering, a live action (mostly CGI) remake of its 1967 story of Rudyard Kipling's jungle book was epic.
But since I am also a big fan of Kipling's Jungle Books, I know that Reitherman's Cartoon is (at best) inspired by the books; basically, the movie uses only the setting and the names; the characters are completely different.So far, only Korda's "Jungle Book" of 1942 is a relatively faithful adaption of (some of) the Mowgli-Stories in the Jungle Books.
The script is poor, the special effects, oh boy, wasn't thrilling to say the least, and to make things even worst, right in the middle of the movie, when the story had no more place to go, here comes Christopher Walken singing – there the movie was totally ruined, the producers got lost, they didn't know if from that point on they should go on with a musical, or should they turned it back into a Disney movie – they literally got lost in translation How I wanted to "walken" away, but I wanted to see how the boy, or should I say the man-cub would face the tiger – again double lost my time.
Adorable wolf-cubs in the movie will fill your heart up with delight.Screenplay is kind of average, sticking to origins at times, sometimes swaying, but not really that powerful.The parts that I didn't like much were these trivial insignificant things which I choose to ignore: Starting off with Neel Sethi, we could have done better.
Aesthetically pleasing and phenomenal CGI work, you'll enjoy the classic book and Disney movie come to life.
However, some of that magic transcends the film and the story and creates this breathtaking performance between the actor and the voice actors.The most unbelievable aspect of this movie is the fact that Mowgli (Neel Sethi) was on the set alone aside from crew members and the director.
No doubt, technically the film is somewhat a testimony of something you've ever encountered in movies.The acting of the boy as Mowgli and his screen presence looks astounding and the voices given to the animals get quite well.
because i was fill my self in that world.Graphics and Visual Effects Was Just Awesome Nothing else.I can tell that this is Disney best Creativity Animated Film.Just Awesome Graphics IMAX Effect and 3D i ever Seen.Like to see this movie more and more.I think this Will Oscar Winning Movie for 100% Sure Its Enjoyable for Adults and kids.Recommanded to see Once in Theatre at costly seat..
I'm really looking forward to watch the Blu-Ray featurette where they going to explain how they filmed some of the scenes.It was not a perfect movie but Disney were able to make me care about those animals and the story.
So it is up to caring panther Bagheera (a supportive Ben Kingsley, also doing the narration), carefree Baloo (a comically game Bill Murray) and the hospitable wolves led by Akela (Giancarlo Esposito) and Raksha (Lupita N'yongo) to protect Mowgli, and for Mowgli to set his destiny, whether as a man or in the jungle.Initially, I was quite skeptical of how director Jon Favreau executed the story.
As a result, Favreau, together with cinematographer Bill Pope ("The Matrix") and visual effects houses Moving Picture Company and Weta Digital, was able to craft a visual splendor of stunning effects and beautiful animation.As for the performances, the ensemble vocal cast is at their A-game, with the addition of Christopher Walken as King Louie and Scarlett Johansson as Kaa. But the true MVP is Neel Sethi, who makes a compelling Mogwli, being an inventive and wholehearted boy.
From the wolves to the elephants and to Shere Khan himself, the CGI is top-class, and the scene of the jungle is brilliantly created as the detailed wildlife is a very nice touch — little animals doing amusing little things everywhere you look.
Cinematography is also used to great effect, especially visible in the Kaa scene.Aside from its looks, The Jungle Book may not be a masterpiece, but for entertainment it is up there with the best in the last couple of years.
It follows a simple yet effective story in which Mowgli is the victim of Shere Khan's lust for power and he has to run in different directions to escape his grip, inevitably of course bumping into classic characters like Baloo and King Louie along his merry way.
I love the jungle book Disney movie I was so looking forward to this.
the animation is good but that's no surprise nowadaysI would not recommend this to anyone that like the original jungle book movie.
Things thanks to which Jon Favreau and Justin Marks (and their indisputable talent) were able to make this movie: best 'Jungle Book's' version ever.
IN BRIEF: Superb CGI upstages reality in Disney's version that takes this simple tale of self- discovery and turns it into a lively action adventure for the whole family, although some scenes may be too intense for the younger crowd.GRADE: B+SYNOPSIS: A man/cub journeys to his own species, with many detours along the way.JIM'S REVIEW: Disney Studio's latest reboot, a live action film of its 1967 animated feature, The Jungle Book, did not skimp on its budget.
Jon Farverau did a great job on it, but what do you expect from the director who brought Iron Man from obscurity to the lime light.This movie has subtle underlining theme songs from the original cartoon, that isn't in your face JUNGLE BOOK.
It was just that, relating it to the other Disney live action adaptations, whether it was going to be one example of a re-boot that looked stunning, was well-written and performed, respected its original source material(s) and added its fresh spin, like 'Cinderella, or a well-made film with enough other decent elements to make it watchable but also one lacking in soul and charm, like 'Alice in Wonderland'.Fortunately, 'The Jungle Book' is an even stronger example of the former, and is one of Jon Favreau's best films along with 'Iron Man'.
As for the songs in the film, although "I Wanna Be Like You" was a disappointment "Bear Necessities" fitted right in and was as good-natured and easy-going as one can hope and "Trust in Me" is worth listening to if you stay for the closing credits, Scarlett Johansson with her low-register, smoky yet sensual tone does a surprisingly good job with the song.'The Jungle Book's' script is very funny (Baloo getting the funniest lines, and some of them were hilarious) without being childish or simplistic while also easy to understand and thought-provoking, there is a good amount of depth too without being too dark or sugary sweet.
We've come to expect nothing less than spectacularly beautiful animation from Disney, so the stunning visuals in the new 'The Jungle Book' didn't surprise anybody.
In 1967, Disney released their 19th animated feature film, The Jungle Book based on the novel by Rudyard Kipling.
Watching The Jungle Book, I started in awe wondering how much of the set and how many of the animals were real and how much of all of this incredible film was created digitally.
I knew the story and the characters, and was not disappointed with this current rendition of this classic Disney/Kipling.It was always beautiful to watch the almost perfectly realistic models of the animals.Mowgli looked the part and seemed to handle the physical side of his performance as the only live performer, but his acting at times made me think of 'Anakin from the Phantom Menace' which is not good for a comparison.
The monkeys and elephants in particular didn't talk, and these are two of the smartest most human-like in real life so this was really weird.On the other hand, Idris Elba was gold as Sheer Khan and Scarlett Johansson's Kaa is perfect, like her voice performance in 'Her' she was wonderful as the hypnotic snake villain.Had me in tears at times, all in all good, honest Disney fun in the spirit of the best of them like 'Lion King', Aladdin or Toy Story..
The movie had some decent CGI and the story somewhat stuck to the original book, however the most annoying thing was Mowgli.
I never thought that Baloo would be that interesting in the live-action version.The voice actors behind the CGI characters - with special mention of Bill Murray as Baloo, Scarlett Johannson as Kaa, Ben Kingsley as Bagheera, Lupita Nyong'o as Raksha, Idris Elba as Shere Khan, Christopher Walken as King Louie - did not disappoint; and of course, Mowgli (Neel Sethi) did well too (look at that stamina and convincing CGI interaction).
Fantastic special effects, with good voice acting, and a great story, Disney has made another great movie..
This one, however, is truly remarkable: It resembles the story of the original book more than the first film, it has absolutely amazing visuals, and has well-written characters.
Whether it's the placement of the animals or the way the camera moves with the jungle, the man knew exactly what he was looking for and he got it.Mowgli isn't quite on his own; you have an all-star cast lending their voices with Bill Murray, Idris Elba, and Christopher Walken being the highlights.