ChuckFlixs: Mowgli Legend of the JungleBy Chuckie VanHoose December 9, 2018It has been a while since the last ChuckFlixs was posted. I took a short break because I got married and was on my honeymoon. I should be posting a few reviews of the next couple of days.

The first review is going to be the new Netflix Original Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle. You may be thinking didn’t they just make a live action jungle a couple of years ago. You would be right The Jungle Book was released in 2016. This is a much darker and new take on the classic tale.

The movie is directed by the one and only Andy Serkis who also plays the voice of Baloo. We all know the basic plot of this movie. A baby is left in the jungle after his parents are killed by a tiger. Then the boy is raised by pack a wolves and grows up in the jungle. But this movie focuses on the more violent and intense aspects of the story. So this is not a movie for kids. Just let them watch the animated movie or the 2016 live action movie.

Let’s start off with my positives of the movie. The biggest and best positive is the amazing voice cast. You have Andy Serkis, Benedict Cumberbatch, Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett and several others. The amount of emotion each one of these performances show is amazing. It’s not all motion capture or effects because I can hear the emotion in their voice. It’s time for the Academy to start paying attention to movies like these for performances.

Another positive I have is Rohan Chand who plays Mowgli. I believe he gives a good to great performance. I think he is my favorite mowgli performance. But it has been a while since I have seen the other adaptions of this story.

The effects and the cinematography is well down in this film too. There are times where it’s just it’s not as good. But it doesn’t hurt the overall quality of the film for me.

I also enjoyed the ending of the film.

Middle of the road
Overall I liked the story focuses on the more intense side of things. I was fine with the cheesy songs from animated movie being left out. But I know people will be upset that they aren’t in the movie. There are some parts that take place in the village. Some of them I like and some of them I don’t like. I can’t go into details because that would be in some spoiler territory.

My negatives of them film are some of the characters that are in the village. They only have a small purpose and I just didn’t care for them. The biggest one that I didn’t care about is the hunter. But the other are minor characters who you don’t have a lot of time with. So there’s really no need to get attached to them.

Rating: 7.8/10

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