It was just a question about the movie. I get its about preservation of the environment, I also get that the film shows the needs of preservation. And that we should not abuse the environment. But is each of the animals a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste_system_in_India

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Just saw the Jungle Book#6
Posted: 4/12/16 at 8:54pm

If u read the original book(s) maybe. for the most part, it is an anthropomorphic set of fables w moral lessons.The verses of The Law of the Jungle, for example, lay down rules for the safety of individuals, families, and communities. Kipling put in them nearly everything he knew or "heard or dreamed about the Indian jungle." Mowgli's is just one of the stories inthe book.

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Just saw the Jungle Book#7
Posted: 4/13/16 at 2:36pm

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Just saw the Jungle Book#8
Posted: 4/16/16 at 11:29am

Saw the movie last night...holy hell, this is why we still go to the movies. I can't even begin to fathom how this was created, and I don't care. I was absolutely enthralled. The Jungle Book was never one of my favorite disney films, but I personally think is superior to the animated version. The voice casting was overall fantastic, Idris Elba, as Shere Kahn, being my personal favorite. The action sequences were intense and paced really fantastically. I was kinda surprised there were some really little children in the audience, this is a pretty violent jungle. I highly recommend this film...in the theaters, in Imax, in 3d. With the Cinderella, which was very old fashioned studio filmmaking, and the Jungle book, which is the filmmaking of tomorrow, I can not wait to see what Bill Condon does with Beauty and the Beast.

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Just saw the Jungle Book#9
Posted: 4/17/16 at 2:33pm

So many people seem to like Idris Elba as a voice actor - I personally can't help but think he was awful in both this and Zootopia. For me his voice just has no expression and his performance sounds amateurish, like Simon Cowell doing a guest appearance on the Simpsons. It saddens me that real, experienced voice actors are often overlooked in the animated movie field nowadays in favour of an "All-star cast". Disney used to use a wonderful stock of distinctive voice actors such as Eleanor Audley, Stirling Holloway and Verna Felton to name just a few. I am happy that they still look to Broadway for their musicals though!

The movie itself is good, the music was perfect (they reused a lot of background/instrumental music from the animated film as well as the main songs) and the scenery and CGI is some of the best you'll ever see - and I'm not a CGI fan.

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