![]() ![]() Favreau retains jungle-boy Mowgli’s red-swaddling outfit, the ’67 film’s characterizations and basic plot outline, and three songs (“The Bare Necessities,” “I Wan’na Be Like You,” and, on the end credits, “Trust in Me”), but screenwriter Justin Marks also puts a bit more Book (read Kipling) in this Jungle Book. A live-action take followed in 1994, a direct-to-video title in 1998, an animated sequel in 2003, and now the Favreau film, which derives directly from both the 1967 film and the books by Kipling. But Jon Favreau’s live-action/CGI spectacle turns out to be a mighty impressive adventure film for kids that accumulates substantial reasons to justify its existence.ĭisney took its first crack at Rudyard Kipling’s 1894 anthology The Jungle Book in 1967, with a now-iconic animated film. Perhaps like you, dear reader, I approached Disney’s new version of The Jungle Book with a chip on my shoulder and the question “Why? Just, why?” The answer, I assumed, was because “they” can, and there’s gold in them thar trees. Once Upon a Time: The Complete Fifth Season (2011)Ĭaptain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) Once Upon a Time: The Complete First Season (2011) ![]() ![]() Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)īreaking Bad: The Complete Third Season (2011) The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) ![]()
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