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And boy, Idris Elba hits it right out of the park, he comes off with the perfect amount of fear and hostility you need for a character like him and as you watch the film, you get that sense of “okay, I found this character to be very threatening, I need to stay the F away from him.”

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Now, if you want to talk about a menacing performance in this, Idris Elba as Shere Khan, you needed to get somebody who can come off as threatening playing this character like how George Sanders to play him in the 1967 movie or even when they got Tony Jay to play him in Tale Spin and The Jungle Book 2. I swear to god, I was leaning back in my seat when she zoomed in on the screen, it really did feel like this snake was in the theater with me, that’s how good a performance that was.

The same could also be said for Scarlett Johansson’s Kaa, who really does bring that creepiness to that character in terms of her voice and just the design of the character. You’ve got Christopher Walken as King Louie and what Walken brings to this performance is both fun and very menacing. You’ve got Bill Murray as Baloo, which that alone already equals quality entertainment value, but he’s fantastic in this giving us a different Baloo compared to the animated version but still equally as enjoyable. You’ve got Ben Kingsley giving one of the best and most subdued performances of his distinguished career as Bagheera. They couldn’t have gotten a better voice cast for this if they tried. The greatest aspects in the movie comes down to two things, the cast and their performances and the visual effects. When it comes to Disney and their live-action adaptations of their animated classics, Cinderella last year set a new bar in terms of making a great quality live-action adaptation of an animated Disney classic but The Jungle Book not only surpasses that bar but it exceeds your expectations for the things they do in it. I really found myself enjoying this a lot. I gotta say, the trailers did a really good job giving us an indication of what this was going to be but even those trailers couldn’t predict the awesomeness that this movie really was. This is a pretty straight forward adaptation of the 1967 Disney animated version rather than of the Rudyard Kipling book, although the film does have several interpretations of some of the darker elements of the book and even references the imagery of the Chuck Jones animated version from the 60s, especially towards the end.

The film also features the voices of Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley, Idris Elba, Lupita Nyong’o, Scarlett Johansson, Giancarlo Esposito and Christopher Walken. The Jungle Book stars and introduces Neel Sethi as Mowgli, an orphaned human boy who, guided by his animal guardians, sets out on a journey of self-discovery while evading the threatening Shere Khan.