Das Dschungelbuch - Mowglis Abenteuer

The jungle book mowgli's story is a direct to video movie and i thought man is this movie trying to be like the three direct to video movies yeah i get that 1998 was a year we had direct to video sequels so speaking of that i'm gonna talk about the jungle book mowgli's story a movie that makes the 1994 adaptation look like a masterpiece mainly because it's based on the Rudyard Kipling book of the same name sure there some disgusting scenes like not even gonna ask at least the movie did have some funny moments like tabaqui face flopping into the river after being launched by shere khan which was funny.

"Now your whole family can relive Disney's 'The Jungle Book', from Mowgli's point of view."

Haw! Now THAT is some serious false advertising.

This takes the concept of The Jungle Book and reduces it down to merely "boy is raised by wild animals and shenanigans happen". This film has no real sense of thrill or danger nor any of the mystic charm that was present in all other depictions of The Jungle Book. It takes all that and replaces it with corny gags and bare bones storytelling.

Kids deserve better than this.

Lastly, on a VERY petty, nitpicky note, there is a LOT more misplaced wildlife in this movie than in all, but one other depiction of The Jungle Book (The Jungle Book 2 in case you're wondering). Macaws, chimpanzees, and American black bears are not in India.

'Twas the eve of before Christmas. I sat down by the open-fire and opened a box of sweets to share with my little sister (5). We turned on the the tv and on came Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story. Aww that Jungle Book - that's gotta be cute, right? Only 5 minutes into this film I was frozen in fear - not because it was scary, but because films could actually made this bad! Ham acting would be a compliment, it's way cheaper than that...maybe Spam acting. I was cringing in embarrassment for the actor who was forced to produce the WORST Irish accent EVER in motion picture history and cringing even more for the director, due to the fact such as film was now on his CV. I could sum this film up in 3 words - Cheap, cheap, cheap - but I won't, I'll use 5 - cheap, cheap, cheap, boring, pathetic. Even my 5 year old sister was begging me to change over to a documentary on grains of sand. 'nuff said!

(PS. I chose to comment on this movie in an effort to spare others from enduring the same punishment I received whilst viewing this "movie")

The only thing that would have made this film worse would have been using CGI to make the animals mouths move. Listening to the horrible dialog performances was bad enough, without having to watch them speak as well.

After seeing the previews for most of Disney's live-action films, I'm convinced that we need to add an amendment to the Constitution banning Disney from making any more.

Sober writers might have been a plus, as well.

How can one studio make so many bad films--one after another. I mean, seriously, these things wreak.

My kids enjoyed this movie. I thought it was well done, even though I do NOT like Fred Savage's work. Good rental for kids 9 and under.