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The Jungle Book (1967)

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Average Rating: 7.4/10
Reviews Counted: 29
Fresh: 25 | Rotten: 4

With expressive animation, fun characters, and catchy songs, The Jungle Book endures as a crowd-pleasing Disney classic.

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With expressive animation, fun characters, and catchy songs, The Jungle Book endures as a crowd-pleasing Disney classic.

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The final animated feature produced under the supervision of Walt Disney is a lively neo-swing musical, loosely based upon the tales of Rudyard Kipling. The story takes place in a tropical jungle where people are conspicuously absent. But one day Bagheera the Panther (voice of Sebastian Cabot) discovers a baby in the wreck of a boat. Feeling pity on the child, Bagheera takes him to be raised with the wolves. Ten years later, the child has grown into Mowgli (voice of Bruce Reitherman). Mowgli

Dec 7, 1999

Buena Vista Pictures

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All Critics (29) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (29) | Rotten (5) | DVD (14)

The standout song goes to Harris, a rhythmic 'Bare Necessities' extolling the value of a simple life and credited to Terry Gilkyson.

November 3, 2009 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
Variety
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A serious disappointment, recommended only for inveterate Disney fans and very young people.

March 10, 2008 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comments (14)
Chicago Reader
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...a sporadically entertaining yet hopelessly uneven bit of animated filmmaking.

July 13, 2011 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | Comment
Reel Film Reviews

Jaunty animation meets jazzy songs in Disney classic.

January 2, 2011 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

It's not merely disappointing but frankly soul-wracking that The Jungle Book isn't any better than it is.

November 16, 2009 Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy | Comment
Antagony & Ecstasy

A witty animated feature from Disney based on the famous Rudyard Kipling stories.

March 10, 2008 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | Comment
TV Guide's Movie Guide

It's a slight tale, of course, and incredibly short, but the characters and songs are pretty much perfect viewing time and again.

March 10, 2008 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | Comment
Empire Magazine

Ridiculously entertaining.

March 10, 2008 Full Review Source: Film4 | Comment

With an ensemble cast of memorable characters, catchy tunes and lots of zaniness, it's hard not to love the Kipling adaptation.

October 8, 2007 Full Review Source: Movie Views | Comment

Fantasmoland for the rugrat set. It deserves to be rescued from the garbage heap where most other Disney movies ought to be dumped.

October 3, 2007 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Slant Magazine

The literally last-minute stab at domestic foreplay is simply unbelievable, but Baloo's lip-licking post-mortem ("I still think he'd a made one swell bear") is what sticks.

October 3, 2007 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Slant Magazine

The two-disc 'platinum edition' DVD is loaded with extras.

October 3, 2007 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | Comment
Apollo Guide

Reflects a conservative, imperialist, 'don't mix the races/species' worldview. Yet it's also about friendship and truthfulness, and it's just plain fun.

October 3, 2007 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | Comment
Apollo Guide

The roughness around the edges of The Jungle Book are part of what makes it such a classic.

October 2, 2007 Full Review Source: 7M Pictures | Comment
7M Pictures

...an amiable, easygoing tale, long on charm if short on edge, excitement, or suspense. (Platinum Edition)

September 27, 2007 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

...the characters, music, and animation more than make up for any shortcomings, and the result is pleasant entertainment for everyone.

September 27, 2007 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

Whatever it lacks in heroic reach it more than makes up for in sociable personality and devastatingly expressive animation from the Disney masters, making it an underground classic that's impressively stood the test of time.

September 18, 2007 Full Review Source: DVDTalk.com | Comment
DVDTalk.com

It's also got great knockabout visual gags, mercifully little cutey-poo sentiment, and reasonable songs.

September 30, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment
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Audience Reviews for The Jungle Book

This is one of the Disney films that I used to watch several times as I was a kid. In fact it was a personal favorite of mine growing up, and is actually what I think, the best Disney animated feature along with The Lion King. The Jungle Book is a solid fun family film filled with comedy and is the type of film anyone

December 2, 2011
TheDudeLebowski65
Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski

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A childhood favourite and a classic!

June 24, 2011
murphmann93
Bethany Murphy

Super Reviewer

    1. Mowgli the Man Cub: Run? Why should I run?
    2. Shere Khan the Tiger: Could it be possible that you don't know who I am?
    3. Mowgli the Man Cub: I know you alright. You're Shere Khan.
    4. Mowgli the Man Cub: Precisely. Then you should also know that everyone runs from Shere Khan.
    – Submitted by Emil Å (3 months ago)

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Foreign Titles

  • Das Dschungelbuch (DE)
  • The Jungle Book (1967) (UK)
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