-★★★☆☆
I know most of us adults grew up having watched The Jungle Book movie in our younger years: it was one of those films that we just can’t forget. And now, this 2016, it’s revived as a live action film and I have to tell you straight: it has the bare necessities of what an entertaining movie is.
THE JUNGLE BOOK – (Pictured) MOWGLI and BALOO. ©2015 Disney Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
The film is action packed, heart-warming, scary and most of all, charming, just like a true Jon Favreau movie. It’s with a great cast that is 99% voice, yet truly remarkable on how fitting their voices are to the characters. Also, I have to talk about the stunning visual effect that truthfully transported me into another world because of how natural and believable it looks.
Although the film is mostly for kids, adults can’t help but find true to life relationship with the storyline. There’s a nurture-nature psychology weigh in, the socio-political war, the social status realism and many other things that makes this film borderline adult, but not vulgar.
It’s good for parents and kids alike. It’s a perfect family movie.
One Setting Travels 