Jon Favreau directs this stunning reimagining of the classic Rudyard Kipling tale The Jungle Book, Neel Sethi plays the orphaned Mowgli, who’s raised in the jungle with the help of talking animals. Scarlett Johansson, Idris Elba, Bill Murray, and Christopher Walken headline the A-list voice cast. There aren’t many animated Disney films I don’t like, basically every single one of them until the end of the seventies was amazing. But for me, this is the one which stands out.
Sadly, Disney himself never got to see the finished film(he died during the production), but this is one he would have been proud of. Crafted beautifully and with attention to every little detail, from the way the different animal species move to the colorful jungle backgrounds.
Wolfgang Reitherman has directed some of the studio’s best - but here he has created his masterpiece. Outstanding animation, fantastic characters - and what a killer soundtrack.
A joy for every generation to discover anew(my 9-year old nephew currently has a bit of a Shere Khan fixation), I guess I will never outgrow this timeless classic. 10 out of 10.