As it turns out, the latest attempt to bring Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli to the screen is a triumph - a painstakingly crafted digital 3D movie whose astonishing visual effects are complemented by very sure-footed storytelling and tremendous voice-work.Įarly on, when we see Mowgli (Neel Sethi) prancing through the forest with the black panther Bagheera (voiced by Ben Kingsley) or playing with wolf pups at the Peace Rock, it looks as if the film will indulge in the cutesy, sentimental anthropomorphism that blights so many animated movies. The various live action films and spin-offs since then have been given a lukewarm response. After all, the 1967 film is one of the best loved features in the Disney canon. To many, it must have seemed a near sacrilegious act for Disney to make a new animated version of The Jungle Book.
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