The Jungle Book (2016)

Visually stunning, it beautifully captures the natural beauty of the Jungle. Even the obviously unnatural behaviour of the animals somehow seems natural, so much attention has been given to modelling the animation on the way the animals naturally move. BUT the genius of the visuals is made to serve a dire script. It fails to capture any hint of the atmosphere of the original. The beautiful descriptions that are so evocative of India, written by a man who so obviously loved the country aren't captured - apart from the scenery, one would hardly know it was India. Given the visual palette available to the filmmakers , this is a sad omission. The plot, dialogue and characters are 100% American Disney and 0% British Indian. The film completely leaves out Mowgli's time living in the 'Man village', so the contrast between the 'Law of the Jungle' and the 'Law of Man' is lost, and we never see Mowgli not fitting in there anymore than he does in the jungle - so the whole point of the plot is missing. In its place is a crass modern morality tale about being yourself and uniting everyone which fails entirely to capture the reality of being raised as an ex-pat, not fitting in anywhere.

Very bad company you are google still after 4 weeks I'm waiting for my refund for a purchase of this film causing me a major headache going round in circles trying to contact google what a joke ov a company hopefully you will read this review has I'm 1 of many customers that are experiencing or have experienced this common issue £8.99 may be a drop in the ocean to your useless company with no customer service skills what so ever it is quite alot of money to a single dad so please refund me 😡😡

For those who think the CGI was the animals and sone trees: the only real thing you saw in there was the actor playing Mowgli so yeah. Basically every small leaf is designed on computers so... Basically it was an animated film with the look of a live action one and people still don't get that. Give them a little credit at least for all that work although it wasn't done by Disney anyway lol. It was weta and MPC.