Review of The Jungle Book (1994) by Vipra — 17 Apr 2016
If you have read the original book and/or seen any earlier animations, you may safely stay away. You won't miss anything. You're better off doing anything else - may be just sleeping!
Unlike the irrelevant superhero animes, The Jungle Book could have a lot of educational value wrapped in excellent entertainment. But no, the makers of this movie decided to make a run-on-the-mill grand animation movie with some cliched humor and some unnecessary violence sprinkled at random.
The movie fails at many levels - from the glaring ones, like the incoherence of narration; to the counter-educative disproportionate animals, a Grizzly in an Avatar-esque rainforest hit by a drought, and an inexplicable temple structure. The "humane" innovations by Mowgli take the cake here, though!
I probably would not be so disappointed had they just created another stereotype animation, instead of creating a garbage out of a good kids' story.
This review of The Jungle Book (1994) was written by Vipra on 17 Apr 2016.
The Jungle Book has generally received mixed reviews.
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