Andy Serkis‘s new adaptation of the stories is a dark vision of the man-cub’s childhood focused on the trauma and tragedy of Mowgli’s upbringing. Serkis assembled an all-star cast of movie ...

including a hunting scene where Bagheera teaches Mowgli to look his prey in the eye so it will not die alone. That’s heavy stuff for a kid’s movie, and we haven’t even gotten to the club ...

Performance capture guru Andy Serkis’ ill-conceived adaptation of 'The Jungle Book' focuses too much on technology, not enough on character. Let’s pretend for a moment that Disney didn’t ...

Mowgli is described as “man and wolf, both and neither,” and the movie, similarly, isn’t entirely fish nor fowl. The production design, for example, is both impressively florid and at times ...

That 2016 film, a high-tech remake of the studio’s 1967 “The Jungle Book,” about an orphaned Indian boy, Mowgli, who is raised by wolves, went on to win the Oscar for visual effects.

Once Mowgli makes his way to the man village after an abduction-by-monkeys incident, a wounding and an exile, you’re ready for some actual Homo sapien interactions. The movie gives the young ...

We all know what adventures man-cub Mowgli had in the jungle, but what happened when he returned to his kind? A Netflix Original film directed by actor Andy Serkis, “Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle ...

A darker, sparer take on the Kipling classic, 'Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle' fails to deliver the bare necessities. By THR Staff Reaching civilization more than two-and-a-half years after the ...

The only real drawback in Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle is that there's a bit of a pacing problem with the story that's being told. Towards the middle of the film, the tempo changes when Mowgli ...