I lead this off with the caveat that I do, when I can, go to film festivals, my record being something like 18 movies during the Nashville Film Festival. On top of that, there's a side thing that comes from living in LA where you start to know people that are tied to independent film, whether or not you're at all close to film production yourself. I lead with that because this documentary certainly could run the risk of being…

While inconsistent, Jungle Book 2 manages to have some fairly good bits, from a couple decent song concepts, to a rather sad bit of Baloo talking to a nonexistent Mowgli at the beginning because he misses him, to a fairly exciting climax for the film.

John Goodman takes on the role of Baloo, and while it sounded initially off, he seemed to fit in the role pretty well, and so really all the voice casting seemed to take on the…

There are multiple levels of how annoying this film was. On the first level are the characters. They never felt to really be fleshed out, and there's an attempt, I think, to make them seem to be deep or complex, and it's just not there. They're black boxes that words come out of, but without seeming to really be people. On top of which, many of them are somewhere along a scale of 'insufferable', made worse by problems largely of…