The Specifics:
# Actors: Phil Harris, Sebastian Cabot, Louis Prima, George Sanders, Sterling Holloway
# Directors: Wolfgang Reitherman
# Format: AC-3, Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Restored, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
# Language: English
# Number of discs: 2
# Rating G
# Studio: Walt Disney Video
# DVD Release Date: October 2, 2007
# Run Time: 78 minutes
The story:
Loosely based on Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book, the movie tells the story of Mowgli, a young boy who was raised by animals in the jungle. When the tiger Shere Khan threatens, the other animals decide that Mowgli must return to the man village in order to protect him. Panther Bagheera and his lovable bear pal Baloo take Mowgli on a journey of music, fun and surprises that end in his finally returning home. The characters are fun, there's great music and timeless animation by Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnston, and other master animators. Jungle Book is one of those movies that the whole family, from kidlets to grandparents can sit down together and enjoy.
The Platinum Edition includes interactive games, music videos, and deleted songs, along with rare commentaries by modern day animators and Walt Disney himself. Small snippets about specifics of the production of the film and a lengthy deleted scene featuring lost character Rocky the Rhino are also included.
"Especially interesting for adults and Disney fans are "The Bare Necessities: The making of The Jungle Book" featurette, which explores Walt Disney's commitment to developing strong characters and his insistence that writers, animators, and song writers create a light version of Jungle Book that followed his own personal interpretation of the story, and the "The Lure of The Jungle Book" featurette, which discusses Frank Thomas' and Ollie Johnston's amazing contribution to the film as prolific animators and the inspiration and influence that their work provided for future animators including Brad Bird (The Incredibles), Andreas Deja (Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King), Sergio Pablos (Tarzan), Will Finn (Home on the Range), and Eric Goldberg (Fantasia 2000). The full length commentary by Bruce Reitherman (voice of Mowgli), animator Andreas Deja, and composer Richard Sherman with its interspersed archival commentary of Disney greats from the original creative team (Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnston, Woolie Reitherman, and others) is also very interesting and insightful." --Tami Horiuchi, Amazon.com
Dot Net gives the Jungle Book - Platinum Edition 5 dots out of 5 for enjoyable family entertainment.
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