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Superlative--Best movie of 1994
The only reason I am giving this film 5 stars is that I can not give it anything higher. This film is far and away one of my all time favorite movies. I must have seen it at least a dozen times in theatres. I stumbled on JB totally by accident. On Christmas day 1994 I went to see Interview with the Vampire. Only to find that it had been pulled. Not wanting to make my trip to the theatre a waste of time. I decided to watch the Jungle Book. I braced myself for a silly childrens film. Instead I found a moving story, fit for all ages, about pure love, racism and colonialism and adventure.

The Jungle Book is about Mowgli (Jason Scott Lee) who, after a terrible mis-hap as a child, ends up growing up in the Jungle communicating with the animals. As an adult he becomes re-aquainted with his childhood sweetheart Kitty (Lena Heady) the daughter of a British officer(Sam Neal) in Victorian India and learns to become "civilized" again. Unfortunetly Mowgli crosses Kitty's then love interest (Cary Elwes). And a bunch of stuff happens which I will not go into for giving away the plot.

I will say this though this is really, really an amazing movie. The chemistry between Jason and Lena is unbelivable. It really is what love is all about. Not once do they utter the "L" word towards each other but in every scene they are together you can see the bond and affection they have for each other. Also (keeping in mind that this is a PG movie) It is so refreshing to see a couple in love without them getting physical. Cary Elwes as the movies villain is really effective and subtle. He really is slick and charming-a real cad.

I would strongly recommend this film to lovers of the above.
This film became such an obessession of mine that I wrote out the novelization just to get it out of my system. Get this movie, it is a descision that you will not regret!

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Look out! This is not the movie and most reviews are wrong
This is a complete rip off and unworthy of a Disney label. Packaging totally deceptive. No Jungle book film and not even any clips. Yes there are a couple of songs of poor quality. Kids very frustrated and parents upset with Disney.

Note to Amazon - you have been deceived too - you need to change the editorial review as you are contributing to the deception.

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This is not the movie.. the reviews are wrong
The packaging is a total misrepresentation.. and the reviews here are wrong as well. The reviews talk about the movie.. I made the mistake of reading these reviews and others and bought it because my son is in Spanish immersion and wanted some fun alternatives to his usual books/videos/music. There is so much wrong with this DVD, I don't know where to start. First, there is no chance of reading along.. the story goes so fast that any child will find it challenging to read AND listen to the words - let along if they are learning to read. In addition the story is completely abridged. And while the packaging says "games" there is ONE game.. a very simple game. Three barrels move around and you have to find Mowgli under the right one. My 4 year old could do it in seconds. That's all for games. The vocabulary section is laughable. The vocabulary ranges from incredibly simple words like "boy" to highly specific words like "lily-pad" and "column" and doesn't seem to bear sufficient relation to the vocabulary in the story - sure some of the words are from the story like "panther" but many many many words that appear frequently in the story do not appear in the vocabulary. The concept of this video seemed great but this is an absolute travesty of marketing and profiteering from the movie. I wish I had not recommended it to my son's grandmother to buy for Christmas.