A good movie

I already saw this movie but since it was a while back and since it was available on Disney+, I was quite eager to check it out again. Even though it might not be one of Disney’s best animated features, I have to admit that I always had a weak spot for this one. Indeed, when I was a kid, I thought it was actually quite fascinating to behold. While rewatching it, the animation was still really neat with some very nice backgrounds, which was expected with those guys, but above all, I was really impressed by how they animated Mowgli. Indeed, his body language and motions were just so amazingly well done and, in my opinion, this character was one of their best work. There were also a handful of really neat characters involved (Baloo, Bagheera, Shere Khan, Kaa, King Louie). Unfortunately, the story was not really strong though. Indeed, basically, it is a generic road-trip with the usual random events occuring along the road, except that they added some supposedly funny jokes and some even less entertaining songs. The fact that I'm not a huge fan of the genre sure didn't help but, in this case, the main issue was that you don't get to see Mowgli evolving at all which is usually pretty much the whole point of this genre reinforcing the randomness of the whole thing. I have to admit that the ending was actually rarely lovely but it would have been nice if it didn't show up so abruptly. It's funny that, when I used to watch it as a kid, I always had also a feeling of ominous danger going through the whole thing but, unfortunately, this feeling was gone and that was exactly was this movie was actually missing. Anyway, to conclude, I think it is still pretty good and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.