Jason Scott Lee, while not Indian like Neel Sethi, portrays Mowgli as an emotive, earnest and curious, and while I’m aware he’s not Indian, I feel his performance solidifies his place in the role. However, Boone hatches a plan to lure Mowgli back to lead them to the lost city by severely wounding Baloo and holding Kitty and Brydon hostage.įor a Stephen Sommers film, the acting all around is rather good. Unable to adjust to life amidst the British aristocracy and saddened by Kitty’s engagement to Boone, Mowgli returns to the jungle to Kitty’s dismay. Lusting for wealth and power, Captain Boone takes the dagger and learns of the existence of the “Monkey City” and its treasure within from Mowgli.
Plumford the power of speech and the ways of civilization and over time, Mowgli begins to fall in love with her. Mowgli follows her back to the British fort and is captured by Boone, but Kitty requests him to be freed and is taught by her and Dr. Plumford and her suitor, Captain William Boone. He later encounters Kitty Brydon, his childhood flame, accompanied by her tutor Dr. Mowgli grows up in the jungle and discovers a lost city ruled by King Louie the orangutan and his monkey subjects, there he battles the snake Kaa with a diamond encrusted dagger. Mowgli also adopts a bear cub named Baloo as his brother. Bagheera the panther discovers them lost in the jungle and leads them to the wolves, who adopt Mowgli and Grey Brother as members of the pack. In the chaos, Mowgli and his wolf cub Grey Brother are presumed dead. That night after a tour of the jungle, the tiger Shere Khan attacks the camp and kills Mowgli’s father, intending to kill soldiers that were poaching his game.
THE JUNGLE BOOK 1994 TEMPLE PATCH
I will admit upfront it doesn't have a patch on the original Kipling stories as an adaptation or a telling of the story of Mowgli, but it is very entertaining in it's own right. This was also my very first high-adventure style movie, and while it scared me at first as a child, I still revisited it to tap into that adventurous, if slightly gritty, spirit. So while this review may be a lot of nostalgia coming from me but I'd be remiss if I didn't attempt to give it as fair a chance as I could.Īt the time of the British Raj, Mowgli is the son of an Indian guide for a convoy of British troops led by Colonel Brydon. I re-watched it recently and found it to be very well-made, entertaining and pretty dark for a Disney film. Despite diverging in many ways from Rudyard Kipling’s classic novel, I personally really enjoy this film. Even then, the few people who have seen Stephen Sommers' take on The Jungle Book are either indifferent to it or think it's just "okay". It's strange reviewing a film that next to nobody has heard about.
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