The Jungle Book (1994)
The life of Mowgli, a young courageous boy, who after the death of his father on the hands of an evil tiger, has left alone in the jungle, where he has been raised by wolves, has been changed completely, when he returns to his hometown, where he cannot get along with civilization.
16 February 1963, Los Angeles, California, USA
16 November 1988, New York, USA
26 April 1956, Dundee, Tayside, Scotland, UK
23 August 1963, Plainwell, Michigan, USA
14 September 1947, Omagh, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland, UK
1940, Trinidad, British West Indies [now Trinidad and Tobago]
27 October 1939, Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK
26 October 1962, London, England, UK
28 April 1930, London, England, UK
7 July 1972, England, UK
1 December 1949, Dehradun, Uttarkhand, India
3 October 1973, Hamilton, Bermuda
1972, UK
25 September 1966, Putney, London, England, UK
19 November 1966, Los Angeles, California, USA
April 15, 2016
This live-action rumble-in-the-jungle version of the story of Mowgli, the boy brought up to adulthood by wolves, may lack the songs and magic of the classic Disney feature-length cartoon, but it is closer to Kipling's original tale.
April 15, 2016
Frequently beautiful and with much to recommend it.
April 15, 2016
Stunning production design, smart pacing, and a well-handled romantic angle make for a seamless, if undemanding, entertainment.
April 15, 2016
Anyone familiar with Rudyard Kipling's stories will be forgiven for spending the first half of Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book squirming with outrage and confusion.
April 15, 2016
This Jungle Book, however, is more remindful of Disney's classic wildlife adventure pics than it is of a cartoon, and it is most remindful of that other jungle classic, Tarzan.
April 15, 2016
The acting troupe are great fun: Lee looks fit, Headey is sweet enough in a narrow role, Cleese fine-tunes his predictable Fawlty bit and Elwes stiff-upper lips to excess.
April 14, 2016
Rent the animated film instead.
April 15, 2016
The new attempt - a live-action adaptation - is unlikely to supplant the cartoon version in anyone's affections.
April 15, 2016
In the end, Rudyard's Kipling's The Jungle Book gains very little from this newest incarnation. As live-action fare, it has nothing on the 1942 version of the story that starred the Indian actor Sabu as Kipling's wild child.
April 15, 2016
That's the biggest problem with this Jungle Book. Sommers is so busy spinning his camera, crowding the soundtrack with animal noises and piling on the cheesy visual effects that he can't stop for a reflective moment or a character-revealing touch.
October 18, 2008
A full-throttled, technically superb adventure - with more bite than most Disney live-action fare - that offers some winning moments but, ultimately, isn't as involving as it needs to be.
April 15, 2016
Jungle Book entertains in a way both contemporary and traditional.
