The Jungle Book (2016)

Best movie of this year hands down!

A Disappointing Continuation

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Another well made, but not well written movie. Visually cool, but the story wanders sometimes and doesn't have many laughs in it. The songs weren't sung nearly as well as the cartoon.

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.

The animated feature length film of the same name is so iconic, the new version had to pull out all the tricks.The animation is incredible, the characters brought more to life, the storytelling varies, (possibly more fitting to the book?) but still builds the tale to its popular build up. An upgrade for the young to enjoy and older to compare.

This adapation of the orginal film made my jaw dropped a numerous time. I didnt think I could make this adaptation as good as the orginal animation they did but they proved me wrong. The stroyline was the same, with the same animals and characters it was amazing. I would recommend watching this to anyone who loves Disney films and absolutely loved the orginal, you think theu couldnt top the orginal animaton, well they did with this! I hope they do a good job with the adapted version of the Lion King with what they did with this one.