Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786303422947 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Letterboxed, Live, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 6303422942 Label: Walt Disney Video Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Walt Disney Video Release Date: May 19, 1995 Running Time: 111 minutes Studio: Walt Disney Video Theatrical Release Date: December 25, 1994 Sales Rank: 17903
Amazon.com: Disney scrapped the songs and talking animals for its second version of Rudyard Kipling's classic novel, an old-fashioned boy's adventure that more resembles the classic Korda brothers' lush original than Disney's own animated musical. In this live-action version, Jason Scott Lee (the hunky star of Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story) is the grown Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves and taught the ways of the jungle by Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther. Fascinated by Englishwoman Lena Heady, whom he spots marching through the jungle on a safari, he follows her to the city. She teaches him the ways of polite society while a greedy British soldier (a sneering Cary Elwes) plots to discover the fabled lost city, where a fabulous fortune awaits. At this point the film becomes more Tarzan than Kipling. Lee's rippling form, back in the freedom of a loin cloth, is on display running through the jungle, swinging on vines, and going mano a mano with snooty Englisher Elwes. His charm and sex appeal has made this film a favorite of many adult women, but it is a family adventure, after all, with colorful locations, grand sets, and plenty of fun-loving animal moments. Sam Neill is his usual figure of moral strength as Heady's explorer father, and John Cleese imparts a little deadpan humor as the safari's absent-minded professor. Director Stephen Sommers went on to direct the 1999 action fantasy hit The Mummy. Ages 6 and up. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - A Live Jungle Book
I haven't read the book, so I don't know how accurate the film is, but I enjoyed this version of "The Jungle Book". It's all about a grown up Mowgli's struggle to fit in with British colonial society, ... Read More
Rating: - Gorgeous!
It was lush and vivid and showed the true spirit of the book. Now why is it so bloody expensive...?
Rating: - Carey Elwes rocks in this film!
This film is extremely good, and aside from the accolades already rendered, is a great glimpse into the British Empire of Queen Victoria's time as well. Carey Elwes has never been more perfectly cast, ... Read More
Rating: - best jungle book ever
I love this version of the jungle book. I watched it when I was a kid and still love it.
Rating: - Please Re release on DVD!!!
Please re release this version of the Jungle Book on DVD!!! It is one of my favorite films of all time and I can't purchase it anywhere!!! I checked on Amazon and it is only available from sellers!!!
- A Live Jungle Book
- Gorgeous!