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.
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.