2016 Directed by Jon Favreau
A man-cub named Mowgli fostered by wolves. After a threat from the tiger Shere Khan, Mowgli is forced to flee the jungle, by which he embarks on a journey of self discovery with the help of the panther, Bagheera and the free-spirited bear, Baloo.
Neel Sethi Bill Murray Ben Kingsley Idris Elba Scarlett Johansson Christopher Walken Lupita Nyong'o Giancarlo Esposito Garry Shandling Jon Favreau Sam Raimi Russell Peters Brighton Rose Emjay Anthony Max Favreau Chloe Hechter Asher Blinkoff Knox Gagnon Sasha Schreiber Kai Schreiber Madeleine Favreau Ritesh Rajan Kendrick Reyes Sara Arrington Artie Esposito Allan Trautman Dee Bradley Baker Sean W. Johnson Daz Crawford
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Jon Favreau brings all the boys to the (Rud)yard, and they're like "what a rich visual feast in service of a decent adventure."
some problems:
- Mowgli can't act. excruciating. and his wolf parents are terribly underdeveloped
- for a film that's power is so dependent upon building a coherent world, Favreau may have been the wrong choice... there's a lot here that works minute-to-minute but fails to cohere into anything more, and the geographical issues get absurd towards the end
- is it a musical? is it not a musical?
some not problems:
- the little mice creatures
- bill murray the bear. so many future timothy treadwells are just waiting to happen
- animal fx are unnervingly sharp, even with the talking problem. if Life of Pi was a small bundle of stars, this is a galaxy.
80/100
Jon Favreau's The Jungle Book, a hybrid project of Kipling's original source material and the 1967 animated film, is a delicate story but a magnificent world. Almost entirely computer-generated, it's a wondrous dreamscape of sensations and textures - 3D is essential here - which evoke all the mythical, primordial emotion. Comparisons of recent pop-culture touchstones such as Avatar and Gravity have been tossed around, but Favreau's film feels vividly minor even with the heavenly sights and sounds. It's a little movie, grounded in the broad strokes of family lost, friendships found, and the comfort of belonging but never stripped of the darkness always lurking out of frame.
It's a testament to the entire team of collaborators that the quaint…
Good luck, Andy Serkis.
I love you, but good bloody luck.
For those waiting for the release of The Jungle Book, I can assure you you're in an absolute treat. The battle for what’s the better Jungle Book adaptation has already finished before it even began, with Disney once again stepping up to the plate to show us what's what. Their version is an awesome adventure story, with some brief sparks of musical and comedy, and Jon Favreau directs the hell out of all of it. With last year's Cinderella and now this, The Jungle Book is easily Disney’s best animation to "live action” film to date.
I quote the term live action purposefully because, if you weren't already aware,…
It's good, but it just didn't feel like a John Favreau film to me. It was missing the flare that made Iron Man, Elf, and Chef so much fun. Bill Murray is absolutely awesome as Ballo, definitely the highlight of the film for me besides the gorgeous CGI.
I pretty much feel the exact same way about The Jungle Book as I did with Cinderella. Both are visually stunning. Seriously, the CGI in both films are amazing, especially in this. However, these films failed to completely bring me into the worlds they created. I still enjoyed this movie, but I was left somewhat disappointed.
Okay, full disclosure, I've actually seen most of the original "Jungle Book" but I never finished it due to the fact I watched it on a VHS in the dead ass of night about two years ago and I was really tired so it never struck me to attempt to finish it a couple days after that.
I've never read the original novels (though, I've heard from both cases of Disney's adaptations it doesn't entirely matter) so I'm speaking purely as an outsider; "The Jungle Book" is the most pointless movie I've seen all year.
I kept asking myself while watching this "what is this really offering me that I can't get from any other movie like it?" Well, one…
I have no idea who this movie is for, and I don't think the movie really knows what it wants to be either, but there are some stunning sequences at least and Bill Murray’s pretty great as Baloo.
Full review at ScreenCrush.
I love Jon Favreau and feel like he's totally underrated. This is the man who gave us what is arguable THE Christmas film of this generation, 'Elf', as well as jump-started the Marvel Cinematic Universe with 'Iron Man'. His last film, the indie passion project 'Chef', was a pure delight. Favreau faced a bit of a rough patch after the critical failure of 'Iron Man 2' and 'Cowboys & Aliens', but his live-action adaptation of 'The Jungle Book' marks a strong return to big-budget filmmaking. The images on screen were breathtaking and the characters are fun. Favreau's next project is a live-action adaptation of 'The Lion King', and if 'The Jungle Book' tells us anything, it's that the film is in safe hands.
Disney's 1967 The Jungle Book is the first film I remember watching as a young boy. Baloo was my childhood idol, and I always wanted to be him when I grow up. Bodytype-wise, I succeeded, but otherwise, I think I'm more of a Bagheera now.
I hold the film very dear to my heart, which is why I avoided this so-called live-action remake for a long time. And I probably should have kept it that way. This is all-CGI, no soul, and it makes me sad for every kid that will grow up thinking this is the Jungle Book, rather than the cheerful Wolfgang Reithermann classic.
Integration of an actor into this CGI world is amazing. Looks great. Trumps everything I’m about to say next...
The kid, Neel Sethi, is not a good actor. His delivery is all over the place.
The plot is a mess. It’s mostly exploring the jungle with no feeling that it’s going anywhere.
While I didn’t enjoy Jungle book 2016 nearly as well as when I first watched it in the theatre, it’s definitely holds up as a solid adaptation that puts a unique spin on the classic story with a dramatic and action packed tone, while still staying true to the spirit of the 1969 film.
It’s also one of the few live action disney remakes that I actually found legitimately good. Which is kind of ironic when you consider that the director of this would go on to direct what’s considered the worst of them...
I hate the Disney live-action adaptations, but I think this one is probably the best out of all of them (haven’t seen the new Lion King or Dumbo though).
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