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.

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.

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.

...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.