The Jungle Book
The Jungle Book
G | 18 October 1967 (USA)
The Jungle Book Trailers

The boy Mowgli makes his way to the man-village with Bagheera, the wise panther. Along the way he meets jazzy King Louie, the hypnotic snake Kaa and the lovable, happy-go-lucky bear Baloo, who teaches Mowgli "The Bare Necessities" of life and the true meaning of friendship.

Reviews
Actuakers

One of my all time favorites.

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Konterr

Brilliant and touching

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Jenna Walter

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

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Anoushka Slater

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

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Scott Summers

There aren't many animated Disney films I don't like; actually, I think every single one of them until the end of the seventies was amazing. But for me, this is the one that stands out. Wolfgang Reitherman has directed some of the studio's best - but here he has created his masterpiece. It has fantastic animation, fantastic characters - and what a killer soundtrack! This film will stay with me forever, and I'm so happy it was created.

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dmataylor-43810

The Jungle Book ended Walt Disney's film career with a bad note. Throughout, the film was boring. Disney tried to make it funny when he had elephants acting like millitary commanders. With the rest of the film, he used singing to try to make it entertaining. He did a poor job. The overall plot was fine, but the manner of presenting it made it a boring film. Maybe toddlers would be amused by this, but I find boring. I would not recommend this film.

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Filipe Neto

This movie is one of the most remarkable of my childhood and I am sure it was part of the childhood of hundreds of other children. It tells the story of a human child who is found and raised by animals in the middle of the Indian jungle, living there until being forced to return to the human village due to the hatred that Shere Khan, a Bengal tiger, fed to humans due to the hunt. It is a light adaptation of a famous novel of the Victorian era. Visually, it is a magnificent movie, using the luxuriant Indian forest to brighten the screen. The animations were very well done and the colors are great, just like most of the sound effects. Its one of the animations of the Disney's golden age that more focuses on song, with several being created for it. Most of them have been in the ears of generations, like "Wanna be like you" or "Bare Neccessities". There are some critics who advocate the idea that the use of black jazz rhythms at a moment when many monkeys appear is a symptom of racism or prejudice. I don't know to what extent that was the intention but I feel it is something to be devalued. After all, the film has been done for decades and, especially in recent years, social censorship points out all that can, even slightly and unintentionally, have racist connotations, in a nonsense witch hunt that is as dangerous as the racism itself. Controversy aside, it's a timeless movie that will definitely continue to make the delights of kids and adults.

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Mr-Fusion

The thing that usually makes me a hard sell with Disney movies is that they're synonymous with musicals Something like "Beauty and the Beast" overcomes this with no problem. At the other end of the spectrum is (ugh) "The Lion King". And then, there's "The Jungle Book", which is the gold standard, if you ask me. These are the kinds of songs you find yourself humming in the halls at work; I mean, really, can you think of a more pleasing ear worm than "The Bare Necessities"? It's not just the outstanding soundtrack, but the general upbeat mood this movie strikes. To this day, I love the back-and-forth between Baloo and Bagheera, and King Louie's sequence has to be some of the most fun you can have with one of these movies. Throw in the Beatles vultures and you've got an array of memorable characters.The whole thing's just a treat.8/10

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