harlando 's review for:

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

3.0

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Walt Disney, you suck.

I saw the movie as a child and watched it with my own children. It's fun, and "Bear Necessities" is a catchy song, but its a saccharine, sanitized version of the original. Some fun differences:
- Sheer Khan is lame in the original and forced to hunt babies and cattle because he isn't fast enough for anything else
- Bagheera, Baloo, and Ka the python team up to wreck some monkey @ss when Mowgli is kidnapped.
- Mowgli delivers a pretty viscous beating to sheer khan, but also get plenty of physical abuse from Baloo
- There are a lot of other, non-jungle stories in the book featuring seals, pack animals, elephants, and others
- There is also an inconsequential charachter named Dick Comeless. Was that a Kipling dirty joke? I'm not sure if dick had become associated with genitals in the 1890s.

I sound like a grumpy old man, but Disney is a bad influence.

I liked the book and am glad I finally experienced the original, but it isn't great.