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The Jungle Book

2016

Jon Favreau

Animation, Neel Sethi. Voice: Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley ...

6.6

28,083

Adventure. Fantasy. Animation “The Jungle Book” is an all-new live-action epic adventure about Mowgli (Neel Sethi), a man-cub who’s been raised by a family of wolves. But Mowgli finds he is no longer welcome in the jungle when fearsome tiger Shere Khan (voice of Idris Elba), who bears the scars of Man, promises to eliminate what he sees as a threat.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"Jon Favreau's beautiful CGI update of Disney's animated classic keeps the songs and the fun, and adds real emotional weight (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"Exceptionally beautiful to behold and bolstered by a stellar vocal cast, this umpteenth film rendition of Rudyard Kipling's tales (...) proves entirely engaging, even if it's ultimately lacking in subtext and thematic heft"	POS
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"Every drop of rain, every cracking tree branch, every swaying tree and (most impressively) every jungle creature in the film looks amazingly real (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Andrew Barker Variety	"Favreau brings a welcome lightness of touch to this visually immersive adventure story (...) can’t rival the woolly looseness of Disney’s 1967 animated classic, of course, but it succeeds on its own so well that such comparisons are barely necessary"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A terrifically enjoyable piece of old-fashioned storytelling and a beautiful-looking film (...) It handsomely revives the spirit of Disney’s original film (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United Kingdom	Sarah Ward Screendaily	"[A] faithful but fun movie [that should] still appeal to families."	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"'The Jungle Book' is lightly diverting, it is also disappointing, partly because it feels like a pumped-up version of Disney's 1967 animated film, with more action and less sweetness"	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"A feast for the eyes (...) Favreau conjures up a magical place to get lost in. And that's just one of the dazzling delights in The Jungle Book, a visual marvel that cuts a direct path to the heart (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Russ Fischer IndieWire	"'The Jungle Book' pushes the capabilities of computer-generated imagery even further than the recent efforts of Pixar (...)The story and characters, however, never rise to the same highs"	NEU
United States	Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"The visual trickery satisfies both the eyes and the emotions (...) Jon Favreau and a team of effects wizards plunge us into one of the big screen's most engrossing artificial worlds since Avatar"	POS
United States	Chris Nashawaty Entertainment Weekly	"A tender and rollicking fable that manages to touch on some grown-up themes about man’s destructive power and the loss of youthful innocence without losing sight that it’s first and foremost a gee-whiz kids adventure"	POS
United States	Rene Rodriguez Miami Herald	"A dull adventure (...) The Jungle Book has its moments (...) but the overall film feels cold and mechanical (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Chris Hewitt Empire	"Wonderful to look at, this is a more adult, more complex affair than its animated, and more entertaining, forebear. Still, it’s Disney’s best live-action adaptation yet (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"	POS

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