Rohan Chand

Christian Bale

Cate Blanchett

Benedict Cumberbatch

Naomie Harris

Andy Serkis

Peter Mullan

Jack Reynor

Eddie Marsan

Tom Hollander

Matthew Rhys

Freida Pinto

Keveshan Pillay

Louis Ashbourne Serkis

Moonsamy Narasigadu

Soobrie Govender

Gopal Singh

Kista Munsami

Mahomed Araf Cassim

Riaz Mansoor

Roshan Jayesh Patel

T'khai Phillips

Sachin Soni

Hridhay Somera

Ethaniel Jaden Moonsamy

Gareth Ryan Benjamin

Nirvayesh Chakravorty Thanendra

Adiyan Ahmed Choudhury

Amara Motala

Diyara Prakash

Diyajal Prakash

John Benfield

Patrick Godfrey

Lorna Brown

Jayden Fowora-Knight

Georgie Farmer

Kassius Carey Johnson

Andy Walker

Tom Hannibal

Niv Adiri

Ben Barker

Dillon Bennett

Lilly Blazewicz

Peter Burgis

Doug Cooper

Mark DeSimone

Zoe Freed

Glenn Freemantle

Glen Gathard

Peter Gleaves

Eilam Hoffman

James Wichall

Sam Walsh

Ian Tapp

Chris Lyons

Suzi Battersby

Rudyard Kipling

Callie Kloves

Jonathan Cavendish

Steve Kloves

Nikki Penny

Michael Seresin

Lucy Bevan

Gary Freeman

Matthew Gray

Jason Knox-Johnston

Steven Lawrence

Tom Still

Anneke Botha

Raffaella Giovannetti

Alexandra Byrne

Liz Barlow

Nana Fischer

Clarice Gill

Sara Desmond

Wendy Alport

Lee Grumett

Jo Tew

Samantha Atkinson

David Balfour

Sophie Bridgman

Noémie Cauvin

Callum Davison

Steve Furneaux

John Greaves

Andrew Guyett

Axel Hoebel

Andries Joubert

Adam Maher

Meike Maher

Sebastian Meyer

Graham Mitchell

Kan Muftic

Roberto Oliveri

Wolfgang Osterholzer

Aisha Saeed

Nick Slater

Anthony Michael Viviers

Laurence Wells

Tracy Wilson

Thomas Wingrove

Kevin Maloney

Jérémie Abrial

Sam Ashford-Rowe

Harry Bardak

Andrew Barry

Christophe Dehaene

Nigel Denton-Howes

Nicholas Hurst

Josh Jefferies

Rory Jones

Rob Menzer

Massimo Meo

George Murphy

Johan van Huyssteen

Jon Veal

Alejandro Villabon

Raphaelle Weisz

Caroline Whitehill

Luke Wilding

Annette Wullems

Andy Wareham

Mark Mottram

Grant Hulley

David Appleby

Ashraf Benjamin

Kevin Fraser

Ken Hodgson

Ed Lancaster

Lesley Manuel

Michael-Daniel-King

Shaun O'Dell

David Rist

Brent Sauls

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Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle

The Imaginarium

Warner Bros. Pictures

United Kingdom

United States of America

English

हिन्दी

based on novel or book

hunter

wolf

tiger

coming of age

anthropomorphism

jungle

bear

python

live action remake

Gimly

Two live-action _Jungle Book_ adaptations in as many (and a half) years. The general consensus seems to be that the Disney version is great, and this one is not. Personally, I'm not huge on either of them. But I can see strength in the argument that the other one is at least **better**.

_Final rating:★★ - Had some things that appeal to me, but a poor finished product._

Kamurai

Good watch, probably won't watch again, and can recommend if you're just looking for another version of "The Jungle Book".

I will say they definitely had the budget for a decent production value, and while Mowgli is almost the only person in the movie, I can definitely say that Rohan Chand is a great child actor, and everyone should be watching him going forward.

Someone was upset that Disney had "The Jungle Book" made as a family friendly, charming movie, and when Netflix was giving away jobs, he jumped in and said, "It's time for the Nolan treatment!" and made a grittier more nuanced than intuitive version.

This version goes much too far into the politics of the Jungle, and does some really strange re-casts of the characters.  Baloo is almost a pirate captain, or an old military commander (because you remember how when the English conquered India, the Indian fought back on bear calvary, right?), and Louie is replaced with a friendly Kaa (still in charge of "the monkey people"), and they specifically go into who is in the pack and who isn't and what laws are being broken.  They even added a new character just to put them in the FRIDGE: I really thought we were done with that trope (it's probably a cliche now).

The action is almost all flippant, it doesn't amount to much and it's all shot a little funny to me.  They also added a Gaston / Clayton character as an antagonist so there are alleged twists on how both must be handled.

The dialogue is mostly fine, but this is LONG, about 1 hr 45 mins, but feels like 2 hrs 30 min.  The story arcs feel more like a run on sentence: looking back I can identify an establishing Act, a climatic Act, and something in the middle that must have been the 2nd act, where all the strife happens, but the weight definitely isn't equal amongst the 3.  There is also no graduating: the fable aspect is long gone, there is not "leveling", Mowgli is the same punk kid as when the movie started, he's just stupid enough to challenge a tiger in open terrain (yes, there's more to that, but it wouldn't matter).

I even like the movie, but this version takes out what little I found special from the Disney versions and replaces it with Batman levels of inner conflict over his identity.

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Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle( 2018)

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