A pretty imaginative and faithful adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's book, which now, for the first time, has a worthy live-film version. Jon Favreau is the last person I would expect to pull of this miraculous feat of the ultimate jungle adventure, where animals talk freely with a human boy, something that even Babe movies didn't incorporate (there animals only talked to each other). The jungle looks like a mix of an African rainforest and a North American wilderness, where Tigers, large Pythons and Bears co-exist together, but I suppose there's no need to nitpick. The newcomer Neel Sethi does a good job acting against green screen - he never interacts with anyone who was actually there, as he's the only human in the film - and he's more or less a perfect choice to play Mowgli. So we have good casting, perfect voice choices for main animal characters (Ben Kingsley, Idris Elba and Bill Murray), excellent scenery, and cinematography that is a perfect combination of live action and CGI. An impressive pre-summer movie that has managed to be better than any blockbuster that's followed it so far.
A-
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