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AboveDeepBuggy Some things I liked some I did not.

Ameriatch One of the best films i have seen

Stephanie There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

froyo1999 Walking into the theater I was prepared to be underwhelmed with this movie. I was sure that the reviews to an uneeded disney reboot were biased and the very handsomely paid cast was just a showing to reel in fan bases of all the diverse actors. However, this movie exceeded my expectations. The graphics in this movie are absolutely incredible, near breathtaking, and similar to the visual sensations in Life of Pi. There are times in the film where it seems Jon Favreau (spelling? idk) can not decide whether he is catering the film to children or an older generation. The beginning of the film seems incredibly innocent but then progresses into an incredibly violent series of animal planet like encounters. I found myself thinking quite often that children really would be probably very frightened of some of the animals, particularly Shere Kahn. Aside from all this though, I find the film entertaining, and frankly quite funny. I think it perfectly uses human emotion and relationships to allow the audience to feel genuine loss when the hero fails and genuine happiness when he triumphs in the end. Beautifully shot and endlessly entertaining, I believe The Jungle Book deserves a high review.

Trey Yancy This could have been a fantastic film except for the casting. Bill Murray is barely passable in the spoken parts but his singing is atrocious. It always has been this way, going all the way back to 1976. Everybody knows he can't sing. It totally ruins what was the number one song in the original Disney film. I had to watch the original all over again to wash Murray's off-key, lousily timed groans out of my ears. Scarlett Johansson is great at speaking in a dull monotone voice without any soul or expression. For her to be cast as a seductive enchantress is utterly ridiculous. There are dozens of actresses who could have knocked this out of the park. Terrible casting. Christopher Walken did an okay job with the speaking parts but this man, like Murray, has absolutely no sense of musical time, Again, a major casting mistake. As for Gary Shandling, he is a lousy voice actor. Dozens of actors could have done a far, far better job. If Disney had hired a casting director with any talent whatsoever, this could have been one of the best films of the decade. Again, there are a ton of great casting directors out there. Disney has no excuse. The producers have no excuse. I was very disappointed.

Ruben Steernberg I was able to keep my eyes on the screen from start to end.

akhilsudhakaran Every time I got fascinated about this movie like everyone because of two reasons. The first one my jealousy of those people who experienced this film in theaters (especially in iMax) because I'm not able to watch this film on the silver screen. The second reason is the reason of everybody, that's the powerful use of visual treatment. Hollywood movies, as we knew are the great treasures of visual beauty and colorful treatment. But Jungle Book is far apart from those kind colorful productions from the early masterpieces like Matrix, Avatar and many more. It is something a vivid way of representation of the new technique collectively known as vfx or Visual Effects. I'm stunned with the maximum utilization of that technique to the utmost and I just went into the forest along with Mowgli (like another man-cab). It's been something a film not about the new technique which is used (as far as concern it is an old technique according to Hollywood movies) it sustain here, in my mind cause of the apt and correct use of visual effects and make the movie live to the audience. Apart from my applause to the Animation films ( because this is something closely connected to Animation films) it is a great and enormous visual treatment to any kind of film lovers (People who love any kind of films not concerning which genre it is).