Serkis’ film thus has an uphill battle, though Mowgli represents less an attempt to rework the story as we understand it through pop culture than a return to Kipling’s original prose and, more importantly, the colonial context of his writing.Īs such, Serkis establishes a darker tone from the outset, opening with a grim montage that edits out just enough explicit material of tiger Shere Khan (Benedict Cumberbatch) killing an Indian couple who wandered too deep into the jungle. Favreau’s film successfully incorporated modern live-action/animation hybrid trends with well-judged revisions to the old Disney animated film, marking one of the few times that the recent wave of live-action remakes of old cartoons has actually improved upon its inspiration. Long gestating in production hell, Andy Serkis’s Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle has the misfortune of finally premiering in the wake of Jon Favreau’s own CGI-heavy update of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, one of the most unexpected delights of recent blockbusters.
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