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The character animation though was rather weak. The backgrounds do look stellar and still have the same look that the first film does though I did miss a specific green look the first film had that made it stand out from the other Disney Animation classics. I shouldn't be too harsh considering this film had a rather low budget of $20 million, but it sadly shows while watching this film. As far as the animation goes, it's mostly rather unimpressive. It doesn't help that the film unwisely included songs from the first film like 'Bare Necessities', 'I Wanna Be Like You', and 'Colonel Hathi's March' which goes to show just how timeless the original film is. I should also mention the film has two brand new songs in the film that were rather forgettable, dated, left no impression on me. It all builds to a rather unimpressive climax revolving around an old temple with lava and it just left me with very little by the end. It's cliches we've seen done in other animated films without anything new. It's also frustrating that the film doesn't do anything interesting to flesh out Mowgli as a character and rather presents story arcs in a generic way like Mowgli getting to leave the jungle after being severely punished by his adoptive father resulting in the latter being upset for treating him harshly. This film doesn't do anything unique and rather simply recycles scenes from the first film while not having the fun as it should. The first film was about bravery and overcoming fear as Mowgli was scared of going to the man village and characters he meets along the way playing around with Mowgli's thoughts. Instead, the story we got rather retreads on scenes from the first film and takes characters back to old locations while also not really giving the characters anything new to do. Rudyard Kipling wrote tons of continuing stories with Mowgli and his adventure with characters in the jungle and knowing they're in the public domain, Disney shouldn't have had any trouble taking inspiration for new ideas. The sad thing was that I could see the potential for another 'Jungle Book' film.

While watching the film, I kept thinking back to the magic and fun the first film had and found very little in this sequel that didn't warrant a theatrical release whatsoever.

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Roger Ebert's review of 'My Neighbor Totoro' is in his Great Movies series at went into this film with rather low expectations and even I was surprised at how unimpressive this film was. If you have a child in the target age range, keep them at home, rent an animated classic or Miyazaki's great ' My Neighbor Totoro' and do them a favor. To release this film theatrically is a compromise of its traditions and standards.

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If kids grow up on the movie equivalent of fast food, they will form an addiction to that instant action high and will never develop the attention span they need to love worthwhile fiction.ĭisney can do better, will do better, usually does better. A new book argues that the average American child spends twice as much time watching television than interacting with his parents, and movies like 'The Jungle Book 2' are dimwitted baby-sitters, not growth experiences. (Theoretically there could be a version of ' Fight Club' suitable for grade-schoolers, although it would be very short.) By this yardstick, 'The Jungle Book 2' is inoffensive and harmless.īut it is not nutritious.

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I got in an argument at Sundance with a Salt Lake City man who sells software that automatically censors DVDs in order to remove offending scenes and language. They dance and sing and peel mangos and then Mowgli and/or Shanti wander off alone to be threatened by the tiger and the snake (whose coils are cleverly animated), and to be rescued by Baloo, with a reprise or two of 'The Bare Necessities.' In a time that has given us Miyazaki's great animated film ' Spirited Away' (also a Disney release), parents have some kind of duty to take a close look at the films on offer. Maybe Baloo should discuss this problem with a counselor.

Mowgli (voice of Haley Joel Osment) and his little village playmate Shanti (voice of Mae Whitman) do, however, venture into the forest, where Mowgli's old friend Baloo the Bear ( John Goodman) is delighted to see him, although a little jealous of all the attention he is paying to Shanti. Whoever wrote that dialogue must have gone home weary after a hard day's work. But 'you can take boy out of the jungle, but you can't take the jungle out of boy,' we learn. As the film opens, Mowgli (who once, long ago and at another level of literacy, was the hero of stories by Rudyard Kipling) lives in a village and is forbidden to cross the river.

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