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,…

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 used to hate CGI, then I saw this

As a remake, The Jungle Book surprised me me by how much it differentiated itself from the original and took risks by spicing up the classic story with new plot points. All the new voice actors for the iconic characters were great with my personal highlight being Bill Murray as Baloo who was just too lovable to put into words. Ben Kingsly brought a ton to Bagheera and Scarlett Johansen, Christopher Walken and Idris Elba were also fantastic. Also the kid who played Mowgli didn't always work however he was the only real thing in this movie so considering he was talking to what was likely a man in a blue…

Definately better than Petes Dragon that I saw recently. The CGI is outstanding, story is more developed than the older animation, and thats about it. The characters were close to being well rounded, but most felt pretty souless. Perhaps it was the need for celebrities to fill the parts or just bad writing, but something felt off. The muddled pacing was also an issue, I liked where the story headed but it meanders to fit with the original, leading to many segments feeling quite irrelivant, although most are bearable. What wasnt bearable however, was of Mowgli himself, child actors are always a problem for films and despite looking the part, the kid just can't act. In- fact he often over…