Hello there.

I have to start off by saying that the original jungle book is my favourite Disney film of all time and one of my favourite films of all time, so I did come in to this movie with perhaps a less open mind than some.

Another thing I want to mention is the live action Disney remakes that they have made, I personally have only watched Cinderella and maleficent, which I both hated

I never liked the original Cinderella so unless they would make good drastic changes I wouldn’t like it. It was awful.

Maleficent is a live action remake of the sleeping beauty a movie that I love, it completely ruined the story, and I can’t stand it, even though I liked it at first.

So yeah, for me anyway the live action Disney remakes have not been incredibly good.

And, well this one wasn’t either. It was, though out of the 3 I’ve seen the best for sure, But that isn’t saying much.

Like Maleficent this movie does the original movie a lot differently, now the original jungle book (the book, not the movie) was very dark, so I guess because of that they decided to make this one darker as well?

Not necessarily a bad idea, the problem for me lies in the execution.

Not only does the movie take a different direction in terms of style it changes the plot and characters somewhat as well.

Now I have never read the book, so I wouldn’t know if this one is really close to the book although I’ve heard the book is extremely dark so I don’t think so.

One of the biggest problems I have is the character usage, they changed the characters as well, which is major no-no for me. 

First off is Baloo, my god am I not happy with what they did with him. They made him a character that uses, yes he uses Mowgli, and scams him.

This pretty much couldn’t be farther from baloo, and makes it a lot more difficult to like him, yeah sure he becomes a better character later on but I just really don’t like this.

And then, there’s kaa, in the original film he had a lot of funny moments, and was legitimately a good character, but here he’s reduced to a worth for nothing 2 minutes of screen time waste voiced by Scarlett Johansson, this was really disappointing for me, as Kaa was one of my favourite characters in the original film.

Now as for how the movie was actually made, it looked nice, the camera shots were good and the environment was legitimately amazing.

 

So yeah this has been my ramble, I know not a lot of people are going to be interested in this, but if you are and have seen the film, tell me what you think about it.

The original Jungle Book was also one of my favourite films and I agree that while this new adaptation looks great, the story lacks substance and you don't feel the same way about some of the characters. I think they tried to do things like add in a modern storyline of a character being mean, then overcoming that with positive character traits, to teach lessons to kids.

(on a side note, I did really enjoy Maleficent tho).

I really enjoyed this movie personally. I thought it was extremely well done.

I didn't like what they did with Baloo either at first but it honestly made the story more interesting.

And would you have been happy if the movie was exactly the same as the original Disney cartoon version? I wouldn't personally. It would have been a huge waste of time and money to remake the movie to have it be a live-action replica.

tornadocam : Wait, 1994 film? I remember that there was another live action film, but when I said ''original film'' I meant the 1967 animated film.
Just to be sure, what film were you referring to when you said 1994 film?

I would say it's more positive than negative. I do really like the idea of giving it a more realisic feel and some of the CGI effects and characters really do look cool and are well acted as well. It's an exciting movie and has some really intense parts to it. On the other hand like someone expressed previously I feel it kind of lacks the charm of the cartoon movie. Perhaps because it seems like they didn't go for the same feel which depending on what you go into it expecting could be a bad thing. It did have music numbers but they don't fit nearly as well in here as they do in the cartoon movie. In a way it was like they were trying to force it in.

I guess the best way I can describe it is: While it's a very good movie, it captures a much different feel. It doesn't really feel like the Jungle Book to me. If I'd gone into this movie not having seen the original Disney movie many times before I probably would've liked it a lot more.

Zlinqx : I respectfully disagree .

Even when you leave out the fact that this is supposed to be a jungle book movie(which, why would I need to do that, that's stupid, the movie is called jungle book.) I feel like its still just a lackluster cash grab by disney.

imamonster : Even if it was an attempt by Disney to use the name recognition to make money I'd say it was still a well produced and well acted movie for the most part. Unlike a lot of other live action movies they've made like Maleficent.

Zlinqx : Well, I don't think the acting is perfect but I'll let it slide cause its a child talking to nothing, so yeah. And in no way am I saying that I hate them for using the name to get money, its a great idea, just feel like the execution could've been a LOT better.

And yeah this was a beautiful looking movie, it was well produced but, for the points that I made in my original post and more I can't get myself to enjoy it in any way.

And yeah the acting in maleficent got a bit cringey at times, my god the king.

I really liked it, though I saw it in IMAX 3D, which played a huge part in why I liked it so much.

Ive never seen any of the other movies or a book or whatever, so I barely knew any of the stuff that happened in the movie, but I still really liked it.

The effects were amazing, and the story was golden.

Really really really brought the animals to life.

zanderlex : ''Ive never seen any of the other movies or a book or whatever, so I barely knew any of the stuff that happened in the movie, but I still really liked it.''

I would probably say that that helped you like it more than anything tbh, cause you won't spend your time sub-consciously comparing it to the original, which even if I try not to do it, I still do it.

imamonster :

Sorry for the confusion. I was referring to the 1967 original one. The 1994 film was a live action film. So I just referred to it as the 1994 film because that is when it came out 

imamonster : I saw this film last Sunday and I was so excited. Only to be half happy with the film. While being disappointed in most sides and not to satisfy me. I know every nook and cranny of the animation film. Me and my mother would know when the songs come in and what scene would to happen next. I was overall disappointed they left some of the key things to the film out. Not only that...the way the film ended was a bit strange. So I rate the film as being ok. It wasn't the best I didn't expect it to be since nothing can beat the original as we know. I want to know if the live action film was based on the book since I can remember I haven't read it or I actually did a long time ago lots of times but forgot I had read it. That's my feelings about the new jungle book film. '-'