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`Jungle Book': No Cartoon Cutups

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19941225
Author:Rita Kempley

The animals can't talk - for that matter the human hero doesn't either - in Disney's ripping new version of "Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book." A live actioner starring Jason Scott Lee as Mowgli, this old-fashioned escapade owes less to the studio's chipper 1967 cartoon classic than to the now-camp adventures of Tarzan. (Both, incidentally, were the creations of British imperialists who surely dreamt of cavorting about the wilds in nothing but knickers.)

The story begins when 5-year-old Mowgli, the son of an Indian guide, is lost in the jungle where he is cared for by his animal friends ...

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