Kitty and Mowgli recognize each other, and while his powers of speech are rusty, with the help of Dr. Brydon ( Sam Neill), a British officer stationed nearby, and her stuffy fiancée Capt.
Years later, after growing to adulthood, Mowgli (now played by Jason Scott Lee) once again encounters Kitty (now played by Lena Headey), who is visiting India with her father, Col. Mowgli is befriended by the animals of the jungle - Baloo the bear, Bagheera the panther, and Grey Brother the wolf - and they develop an unspoken sense of communication as the growing boy learns to live in the wilds. Mowgli becomes close friends with a British girl named Kitty ( Joanna Wolff), whose parents commissioned the hunt, but when a tiger attacks their camp and kills Mowgli's father, the boy is lost in the confusion, and he's left to fend for himself. Mowgli (Sean Naeleli) is the five-year-old son of a wilderness guide who accompanies his father on a hunting expedition in the jungles of their native India. In conclusion, very good and underrated film.Twenty-seven years after turning one of Rudyard Kipling's best known works into a successful animated musical, Disney returned to the same source material for this live-action adventure, which hews slightly closer to the original source material. The performances are fine too, Jason Scott Lee is likable as Mowgli, John Cleese is wonderfully benevolent as Dr Plumford, and Cary Elwes makes a suave, handsome and charismatic villain.
The music from Basil Pouledoris, who also composed the music for the Hunt For Red October, is sweeping and rousing, and the pace and direction are slick. The costumes are fabulous, Kitty's dresses are to die for, and Lena Headey I must say looked gorgeous. The film looks absolutely stunning, the cinematography is striking, the forests are lush and the waterfalls are sparkling. The animals are very well trained, I liked how wise Baloo was and Shere Kahn gave a good amount of menace whenever he was on screen. I admit it I do prefer the animation, as I grew up with it, but I really like this version as well. I also think it is very underrated, the look of the film and the music should've at least guaranteed a 7.0 rating on IMDb, and whether I bring this film up to people the general impression is that a)they haven't seen it, b)it is inferior to the 1967 film or c)they hate it full stop. But there is so much that compensates it is actually truer to the book than the 1967 film was and it is definitely worthwhile. This film doesn't quite have the charm of the 1967 film, and there are some parts like the animal mauling that I found rather intense. I just loved how original, funny and light-hearted it all was. I'd better start off saying how much I love the 1967 animated film.
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