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The standout song goes to Harris, a rhythmic 'Bare Necessities' extolling the value of a simple life and credited to Terry Gilkyson.
A serious disappointment, recommended only for inveterate Disney fans and very young people.
...a sporadically entertaining yet hopelessly uneven bit of animated filmmaking.
Jaunty animation meets jazzy songs in Disney classic.
It's not merely disappointing but frankly soul-wracking that The Jungle Book isn't any better than it is.
A witty animated feature from Disney based on the famous Rudyard Kipling stories.
It's a slight tale, of course, and incredibly short, but the characters and songs are pretty much perfect viewing time and again.
Ridiculously entertaining.
With an ensemble cast of memorable characters, catchy tunes and lots of zaniness, it's hard not to love the Kipling adaptation.
Fantasmoland for the rugrat set. It deserves to be rescued from the garbage heap where most other Disney movies ought to be dumped.
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.
The two-disc 'platinum edition' DVD is loaded with extras.
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.
The roughness around the edges of The Jungle Book are part of what makes it such a classic.
...an amiable, easygoing tale, long on charm if short on edge, excitement, or suspense. (Platinum Edition)
...the characters, music, and animation more than make up for any shortcomings, and the result is pleasant entertainment for everyone.
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.
It's also got great knockabout visual gags, mercifully little cutey-poo sentiment, and reasonable songs.
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