Disney's
The Jungle Book
Release Date April 15
Review by Emilie Olsen
will turn on them when he gets older. Mowgli then decides that he will leave the wolf pack. While Mowgli’s “mother”,
Raksha, is strongly against Mowgli leaving, she lets him go.
At the end of the movie during the battle between Mowgli and Shere Khan, Mowgli tells Shere Khan, “I’m not afraid of you; I’m done running”. We can apply that to our everyday lives. When Satan comes to steal from us, we can face him head on and defeat him. My favorite saying from the movie is when the wolves recite the Law of the Jungle, but the main saying (in the Law of the Jungle) that stuck out to me was, “The strength of the pack is the wolf and the strength of the wolf is the pack.”
While it is not a musical, Mowgli and Baloo sing Bare Necessities and King Louie sings I Wanna Be Like You, but those are the only two songs sang in the movie. The Jungle Book was a movie that was hyped up way more than it should have been. It was packed full of action and suspense, and there was never really any moment where the movie slowed down.
I would give the movie 3 out of 5 stars and would suggest that you rent the movie from Redbox instead of going to see it on the big screen.
When the movie starts (after the 23 minutes of unnecessary previews), Mowgli has already been adopted by the wolf pack and is still trying to get a hold of living like a wolf. He is struggling to fit in, has his own way of doing things, and is always asking questions. When Shere Khan threatens the wolf pack, the wolves begin to worry about Mowgli and if he