![]() On one of his tours, he leads Colonel Geoffrey Brydon and his men, as well as Brydon's 5-year-old daughter Katherine nicknamed Kitty. In 1887, during the British Raj in India, Mowgli is the 5-year-old son of the widowed Nathoo, whose wife died in childbirth. In 2016, Disney released another live-action adaptation, The Jungle Book, which was more similar and faithful to both the 1967 animated film and Kipling's book. Released on December 25, 1994, by Walt Disney Pictures, the film received generally positive reviews and grossed $70.7 million in theaters against a $30 million budget. Unlike most adaptations of Kipling's stories, the animal characters in this film do not speak. The film stars Jason Scott Lee, Cary Elwes, Lena Headey, Sam Neill, John Cleese, and Jason Flemyng in his first theatrical film role. It is the second film adaptation by The Walt Disney Company of the Mowgli stories from The Jungle Book (1894) and The Second Jungle Book (1895) by Rudyard Kipling, and the first live-action adaptation of Walt Disney's animated film of the same name from 1967. Feldman and Raju Patel, from a story by Ronald Yanover and Mark Geldman. In conclusion, very good and underrated film.Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, simply known as The Jungle Book, is a 1994 American adventure film co-written and directed by Stephen Sommers, produced by Edward S. ![]() The performances are fine too, Jason Scott Lee is likable as Mowgli, John Cleese is wonderfully benevolent as Dr Plumford, and Cary Elwes makes a suave, handsome and charismatic villain. The music from Basil Pouledoris, who also composed the music for the Hunt For Red October, is sweeping and rousing, and the pace and direction are slick. The costumes are fabulous, Kitty's dresses are to die for, and Lena Headey I must say looked gorgeous. The film looks absolutely stunning, the cinematography is striking, the forests are lush and the waterfalls are sparkling. The animals are very well trained, I liked how wise Baloo was and Shere Kahn gave a good amount of menace whenever he was on screen. ![]() I admit it I do prefer the animation, as I grew up with it, but I really like this version as well. I also think it is very underrated, the look of the film and the music should've at least guaranteed a 7.0 rating on IMDb, and whether I bring this film up to people the general impression is that a)they haven't seen it, b)it is inferior to the 1967 film or c)they hate it full stop. But there is so much that compensates it is actually truer to the book than the 1967 film was and it is definitely worthwhile. This film doesn't quite have the charm of the 1967 film, and there are some parts like the animal mauling that I found rather intense. ![]() I just loved how original, funny and light-hearted it all was. ![]() I'd better start off saying how much I love the 1967 animated film. ![]()
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