Reviews

You gotta know when to stop. This franchise has run a couple of movies too long.

Now concentrating on this movie only, not the franchise, plainly put, it is a bad movie. If you are a die hard fan and want to pick positives and try desperately enough, you can do so. I am not that desperate and I take my movie watching pretty seriously and there is nothing good I can say about this movie. There is no point in going into the plot and dissecting it. Scrat used to be funny, but that seems to be a lifetime back. Sid used to be lovable, but I can't even remember the last time I felt so. There is no life in this cow, let alone milk.

The 1967 film was vastly different from Kipling's original work and so is this one. So let us leave the story-line out of it.

Lemme say that I am a huge fan of the old movie. I watch it again and again with my little girl. We sing along with Baloo, Col. Hathi and King Louie. That movie is all fun.

Now in 2016 they have made a marvelous piece of visual experience. And they have taken out all the fun and innocent childishness out of the movie. The movie is OK for a grown up, or even a teen. But for god's sake, the makers have made sure that a kid won't enjoy it.

It's sad. Really sad.

The Jungle book is one of those stories which will mesmerize kids when you put them to sleep. It gives them a world so vibrant and indulging, that the visuals take place in their mind while they listen. The visuals this movie present to the kids will twist their imagined world of Mowgli into something beyond recognition.

Go, see the movie. It's not bad. But prepare the kids for something they might not enjoy, if they know the story of Mowgli beforehand.