Disney’s 1967 version of The Jungle Book is a movie about a young boy in peril that never makes its audience feel a palpable sense of danger. When we think about Mowgli’s animated journey to the ...

This jubilant adventure begins when Mowgli, a little boy raised by wolves, is urged by his friend Bagheera, a wise old panther, to seek safety in the man-village. Feeling very much at home in the ...

Remember anything about the original Disney animated Jungle Book other than The Bare Necessities? Nope, neither do we. Turns out that movie was a pretty boring compilation of random dance scenes, ...

Baloo promoting the joys of laziness made for cheerful childhood memories in the 1967 Disney classic "The Jungle Book." The 2016 version, which premiered on April 5, sets a real young boy amidst a ...

"Why are they making it, if the old one was so good?" From the mouths of babes. The question was posed by my 10-year-old when I mentioned I was off to watch a new version of The Jungle Book. Let's be ...

The Beatles released several chart-topping albums in the 1960s. The band was even asked to appear in Disney's animated film, 'The Jungle Book.' In Disney’s The Jungle Book, one jungle-raised boy ...

There are two songs in Jon Favreau’s snazzily updated live action version of “The Jungle Book,” each plucked from the original animated 1967 version, and both feel oddly out of place. Favreau’s ...

The 1967 animated The Jungle Book was—for no specific reason I can discern—the only Disney movie allowed in our home when my little brother and I were growing up. So it was the only one we watched.

With the passage of time comes the desire to update earlier works for newer generations with different sensibilities and tastes. With traditional 2D animation having essentially been phased out of ...