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From: National Review
Date: 19950220
Author:Simon, John

Having more or less put aside childish things, I am not over-fond of films for young people. Here, however, are three worth commending. True, when a movie calls itself Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, you can be reasonably sure it will have as little to do with Kipling as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein had to do with Mary Shelley. So The Jungle Book becomes a love story between Mowgli, the jungle boy, and Kitty, the daughter of the commander of the army post from which the boy had vanished as a child. Still, if a film has a romance between a girl brought up by the highest Victorian ...

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