“The Jungle Book: 40th Anniversary Edition” DVD Review
Jungle Book was always the one Disney film I hadn’t seen when I was young. I eventually got the VHS release of it, likely the 30th Anniversary Edition, and remember watching the film quite a few times. By and large, Jungle Book is probably one of the tamer Disney tales; aside from the Shere Khan antics, the majority of the film is just dialogue and song. The film floats effortlessly along until it reaches the conclusion and we see Mowgli go on his way to becoming a man. Adapted from the Rudyard Kipling novel of the same name, The Jungle Book sprung to life in the late 60s. Walt Disney insisted that no one on the staff read the novel as it was not the tone he was going for; the novel was much darker than the film and Walt didn’t want the film to be anywhere near as dangerous as Mowgli’s world in the book. Even with the drastic departure from the novel, the characters largely remained the same,