Free The Jungle Book1/17/2024 As much as I was totally captivated by the movie, I did make one snide remark (actually two, but I will keep the second one to myself). There is something here for everyone, from the kids to the adults. In fact, I think the entire movie is a demo disc for home theatres! This is one of the most satisfying movies I have seen this year. The surround sound design is jaw-dropping oh la la. The sound design is also an aural extravaganza - just listen to the scene where the anaconda, voiced by Scarlett Johansson, engages and hypnotises Mowgli. It is the perfect marriage - each element serving the other in a symbiotic relationship. Yes, animals can talk! I am a believer! Favreau marries the narrative and the visuals so well, I couldn't see one without the other. But the sense of story is so compelling, I was totally immersed in the world. Looking at all the frames of The Jungle Book, other than Neel Sethi as Mowgli, everything is CGI-ed to the Ying Yang. The seams will start to show and the minutes will turn to hours. The facial expressions mirroring its running gamut of emotions, the physical movements of each animal, the pitch-perfect voicing - who wouldn't believe they possess a human soul? Films using a predominance of CGI go stale very fast if the story cannot keep up. I was awestruck by the level of visual details of each animal that occupies the screen. I thought Disney's Zootopia has reached an epoch in CGI, but The Jungle Book is definitely the crowned jewel. Jon Favreau knows the divine quality of the works and he gives us that and more and more and more. The stories are fables and use animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons. Rudyard Kipling's eponymous collective works gathered under the name of The Jungle Book is almost gospel.
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