Jungle Book provides both rowdy thrills and old-fashioned family entertainment.
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Baltimore SunStephen Hunter
Baltimore SunStephen Hunter
Beautifully mounted and shot, Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book still feels somewhat callow. Its title aside, it never really deals with the issues that the great Kipling raised continually in his distinguished body of work.
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The Seattle TimesJohn Hartl
The Seattle TimesJohn Hartl
Sommers is so busy spinning his camera, crowding the soundtrack with animal noises and piling on the cheesy visual effects that he can't stop for a reflective moment or a character-revealing touch.
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EmpireIan Nathan
EmpireIan Nathan
So so adaptation of the Kipling story. The human performances are riotous but their animal counterparts are blank canvases yet to be coloured.
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Time Out
Time Out
Scott Lee is an unexpectedly appealing hero, partly because he's never indulged, and his dialogue is kept to a minimum.
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TV Guide Magazine
TV Guide Magazine
Stunning production design, smart pacing, and a well-handled romantic angle make for a seamless, if undemanding, entertainment.
A full-throttled, technically superb adventure — with more bite than most Disney live-action fare — that offers some winning moments but, ultimately, isn’t as involving as it needs to be.
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Orlando SentinelJay Boyar
Orlando SentinelJay Boyar
A routine action drama, Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book contains qualities of both forgettability and painlessness.