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
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.
Creature effects were pretty spectacular, weird revenge fantasy story, 3D was comfortable, Elba/Murray/Walken were good, fun!
The CG was so good that at one point I legitimately thought they brought actual animals onset.
And hence, I've finished watching the movie of the book I could never finish.
And obviously the cast is fantastic! 💖
Bright, breezy and extremely accomplished. A marvellous cast and narrative that has more than enough charm and wonder to stay afloat.
Warm up your fucking filing cabinets and throw this one under “movies so boring I was embarrassed I brought my girl.” How did this dude spend all this money animating every individual leaf and fucking hair but fumble every other aspect of the movie. By the time by boy mogwai pulled up on Chris walk-in I was nearly asleep, and then the movie just kept going.
A grade Garbo get this out of my face. Go back to making Elf 2 starring Will Ferral my guy
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