Colonel Hathi breaks his stick; in the next scene it is intact, then broken again.
After the fight with the monkeys Baloo and Bagheera have black eyes.
They seem to be reversed at one point, but that's because they're looking at reflections in a pond.
When Baloo and Bagheera are trying to rescue Mowgli from the monkeys, Baloo opens a door smashing it against Bagheera.
The door has no handle.
The next shot is a close-up of Bagheera's head with the door behind it; the door has now a handle.
Baloo asks Mowgli to scratch his left shoulder, however when Mowgli scratches him, he scratches his right When Colonel Hathi orders the troops to halt it is clear that Winifred is at the front.
However, later in the scene, a gray elephant appears to be at the front instead.
When Bagheera drops baby Mowgli off with the wolf pack, he leaves the basket at the mouth of the cave den.
When he leaves the baby, the basket is closed and when he looks back from his hiding place, the basket is open.
During the "The Bare Necessities" song, Baloo is shown picking the fruit off Prickly Pear cacti - a type of plant that only grows in North America and nowhere near India.
When Shanti is kneeling by the water at the end, singing, as she fiddles with one of her pigtails and flips it back you can see that it is still tied with the purple ribbon.
However, the shot right after she fiddles with her other braid shows both ribbons as missing and her hair loose.
The story takes place in India, yet King Louie is an orangutan - they live in Borneo and Sumatra.
The monkeys are hanging from their tails in several scenes, but monkeys with grasping tails are only found in South America.
Set in India, yet the monkeys' ruined city is clearly Cambodian.
Although Baloo has only four claws on either hand in most scenes, in a few he also has additional opposable thumbs.
When Baloo is fighting Shere Khan, the landscape is desolate and littered with dead trees.
After the fight, when Baloo is lying unconscious with Mowgli and Bagheera looking over him, the landscape is the jungle again, full of live plants and trees.
Wolf cubs do not wag their tails when they are curious.
The tail wag among wolves is largely a sign of submission.
During the "I Wanna Be Like You" song, King Louie says "One more time!" Baloo appears to be mouthing the words, but his voice isn't heard.
Hathi, a bull Asian elephant, is the leader of the elephant when in reality elephants are a matriarch society.
The herd is led by the top cow elephant (Winifred).
Once a bull elephant becomes matured, he would either go alone or join a group of other bulls.
Great joyous fun and a worthy reimaginingI wasn't expecting a riff on Apocalypse Now! Great stuff.
Visually, this is almost perfect but the movie itself is a bit lacking, something that you don't expect from a Jon Favreau movie.I watched the animated version 2 days ago, so have it fresh in my memory for a comparison.
Quire simply put this is animated story telling at its purest and best. This is a joy from start to finish.
Rudyard Kipling's classic tale of a young boy brought up in the jungle by various animals is brought to life once again on the big screen in a fittingly wonderful way. Mowgli leads a peaceful and happy life with a wolf pack led by Akela (Esposito) and Raksha (Nyong'o) until the tiger Shere Khan (Elba) enters the scene, bearing an old grudge and an insatiable desire for revenge.
Listed as number 19 in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, The Jungle Book is one of the House of Mouse's most beloved films. Loosely based on Rudyard Kipling's book of the same name, Disney demanded a sure-fire hit after the underwhelming response to The Sword in the Stone (1963) and removed any hints of the darkness of Kipling's text in favour of a more child-friendly experience.
I wasn't really a fan of this film. I consider my concerns lightly because I watched it distracted and was slightly drunk, but from what I paid attention to, it felt commercial, lackluster, and predictable all the way through.
If there's any film that truly marked the end of an era, it would have to be Walt Disney's film adaptation of The Jungle Book, as it was the last feature made under his involvement before he passed away almost a year before it was released. When it did come out, not only was it a critical and commercial success, but it helped spark the company to move forward in animated features, and more than 50 years later, it's gone through ups and downs to become the animation powerhouse we remember it as.
I'm not a big fan of Disney's The Jungle Book.There.
I'm glad this was made when it was, it's practically a smorgasbord of voice and musical talent from the 60s. Sebastian Cabot and Phil Harris are both extremely memorable in their roles, and the soundtrack is one of Disney's best.
