Feels more like Tarzan than the Jungle Book but it's a fine family adventure nevertheless. Stephen Sommers is considered a bad director due to films like Van Helsing and G.I. Joe.. He made some of my favorite movies of the 90's though. Like; Huck Finn, The Mummy and definitely including this film. Jason Scott Lee was great; as was the supporting cast. The use of real animals was also good which you can't say about the 2016 film.

Lusciously filmed, with slick pacing, good performances and terrific music; while just lacking the 1967 film's charm, it is truer to the book, worthwhile and very underrated.

Oh, right, I forgot that Cersei Lannister used to play young, innocent characters. Getting your childhood best friend to "fight" you to prove to the new hottie that you're a badass is such a Chad move, Mowgli. Oh, look, another future Game of Thrones star as Harley; that show really did cast just about every English actor active and working in the UK, like the Harry Potter of HBO. If you were an English actor, you were either in a Harry Potter movie or Game of Thrones, LMAO; Cary Elwes here is about the only exception. While it doesn't have any of the catchy songs from the animated classic, this is easily the best -- and possibly their first -- of Disney's live-action remakes, even with worse Anaconda CGI than that travesty of a movie with J-Lo and whatever the fuck accent Jon Voight had in Anaconda; Jason Scott Lee as Mowgli was inspired casting, because he really did pull off the pure innocence of a man raised in the wild. Even though I was so used to Cary Elwes playing Westley in The Princess Bride as a kid, he was so much fun hamming it up as the villain in this movie. Mowgli the angry kitty whisperer!

A good try to make a real people version of the classic Kipling story. The result is not OK but stays shy of being great. For fans.

Very good. I wasn't sure what to expect from this 1994 version of 'The Jungle Book', though I'm pleased to say it exceeded my expectations. It's a very different telling of Rudyard Kipling's work from what I've previously seen, which actually gives it a fresher feel. If we're comparing film adaptations, the 2016 remake is the better film. I still thoroughly enjoyed this one though. I liked the switch-up of events, while the death scenes are excellent. Cast-wise it's strong, with Jason Scott Lee (Mowgli), Cary Elwes (William), Lena Headey (Katherine), Sam Neill (Geoffrey) and John Cleese (Julius) all appearing. Lee and Elwes are the standouts, but I rate all five of them. The score is mostly alright, but some moments of it are superb; one part in particular reminded me, somewhat randomly, of television's 'The Crown'. There are a few things that I can understand being deemed as downsides, those include the silent animals (voices wouldn't have worked here, imo) and obvious nature of the plot. Pleasant film, one of the best adaptations of TJB that I've seen.