Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle Reviews

Even though this movie was rather poorly received like most of Netflix original films, I still wanted to check it out. Of course, the first issue with this movie was that Jon Favreau had released another version of this tale just a couple of years ago and the fact that this movie turned out to be a big critical and commercial success didn’t help either. Still, even without Disney’s recent retooling, I’m not sure that this version would have been much better received. First of all, even though the CGI was sometimes impressive, it was sometimes also rather weak. For example, Baloo, in fact Andy Serkis’s own character, was especially ugly. Furthermore, even though Rohan Chand was fine in ‘Bad Words’, I thought he was actually rather weak here. But, eventually, the biggest issue I had was this story. I mean, this tale is decent enough but, by now, I have seen so many versions and I think I’m pretty much done with it and even though this movie was supposed to be a darker version, at the end of the day, it was still about some talking animals so it didn’t become extremely dark or really original. Eventually, the only interesting thing was Mowgli’s struggle between the fact that he is a human and the fact that he grew with some wolves but, unfortunately, this interesting dilemma, never really explored before with this character, came just way too late and it could or should have been so much more developed. Anyway, to conclude, I think my rating was rather generous here, I guess it still worth a look but there is no doubt that it was a rather useless new version.