Feel the jungle rhythm. Fun fact: I actually saw this movie in theaters with my grandmother. I don’t remember it being great, but it was a fun day nonetheless.
The thing that bothers me most about this film is that the Wolves are don't appear and are not even mentioned. Even if they had a small role in the first film, it was still established that they were Mowgli's adoptive family.
Am I the only one that was bothered by the fact that Shere khan was able to sneak into the village. Wasn’t the reason they brought mowgli there was so that he could be safe from shere khan.
It gets even more funny when you realize that taking Mowgli to the village in the first place is just asking him to become what Shere Khan hates about humans. Just another hunter with a gun. Heck, look at what the alternate ending to the first film was. Or even what happens in the original book.
Don’t get me wrong, John Goodman is a wonderful voice actor, but he’s no Baloo. He was way better as Sulley and Pacha. They could’ve found a voice actor that sounded closer to Phil Harris.
Regarding that King Louie controversy, it was in regards to Disney reusing King Louie and his likeness within Talespin forgetting to consult Louis Prima's family who had put some of his likeness into the character and was partially his as well as Disney's (A similar lawsuit happened with Caddyshack 2 and the Gopher) Long story short, they required to pay them before adding his character to that cartoon and it looked like they were avoiding doing so, so she sued. I guess to avoid possible legal trouble they just said Screw-It and didn't include him in the second movie beyond namesake.
Although King Louie wasn't included, the little Monkey that fanned him with the giant leaf in the first movie now has Louie's color scheme and is also voiced by Jim Cummings too
Wait, in the non existent 3rd movie, Shere Khan would've reformed after being captured and taken to a Russian circus? Wouldn't that make his hatred of Man all the more pronounced? Thank God that was canceled because someone wrote a shitty script.
You know one thing you forgot to talk about is shanti and Ramajan can understand Baloo and the other animals seriously in the novel mowgli learned to talk to the animals because he was raised by them but how does shanti and rajan know how to understand the animals
@@raisorblade so true one other thing that doesn't make sense in the wild song we see animals like hippopotamus ocelots a species of safaka lemur vampire bats Thompson gazelles and a couple of other animals not even found in India like they couldn't put animals actually from India instead of feeling like a generic jungle
@@raisorbladeI’m starting to wonder that it’s probably just children in this universe can only understand animals but not any grown ups. Would make sense since all the humans who speak to the animals are kids but no adult ever speaks to the animals as well. BUT HEY! That’s just a theory. A REPLY SECTION THEORY!
I think a reformed villain only works if they are the minions like Iago , Gantu and Anatasia , the only execeptions due to being more Gray is Amos Slade and Long John Silver .
Brother, coming from someone who also ranted on this film seven years ago, I feel so sorry for Jungle Book 2. This could have been something so much more. However, its potential was badly wasted. I would have loved the sequel to have Mowgli grow up into manhood just like the original Rudyard Kipling novel. When it comes to animated Jungle Book adaptation fix, I am going to embrace the Russian film adaptation and call it a day.
It would have been better if they had given shanti more character development by keeping the song they already had storyboards done and recorded a song called braver which brings more light ot her character
They also put Peter Pan: Return To Neverland in theatre's aswell and on a sidenote the original Peter Pan novel did get a sequel called Peter Pan in Scarlet which came out 4 years after Return To Neverland
This movie has a special place in my heart. I actually remember getting the DVD when we were just moving into our new house as a gift from my dad. And I would watch this movie all the time as a kid. I actually saw this movie before I even knew a first one existed. Now a days, it’s more a nostalgic trip if anything. Though there are things I like, namely anything with Shere Khan, and the fact Mowgli actually learns something and isn’t just being a brat to others or someone who the heroes have to bail out of trouble. And I guess the elephants too, but that’s due to my love for the species as a whole.
6:58 - Gia Prima sued the Walt Disney company because Jim Cummings did too good a job impersonating Louis Prima when he voiced King Louie in TaleSpin. As a result, not only was King Louie absent from The Jungle Book 2, he was replaced by an expy named King Larry in the House of Mouse episode, "King Larry Swings In".
I do feel Mae whitman the voice for shanti did try her best but i think she was more fitted for Avatar the last airbender and 2012 TMNT cartoon as it was her bigger break in voice acting than jungle book 2
@@stevenelbert8989 This film came out at the right time, because Haley Joel Osment was still able to use his Kingdom Hearts 1 voice. Ever since 2006, wow Haley's voice has changed completely.
Have you ever heard of More Jungle Book? It's a storybook record that features original songs by the Sherman Brothers and the voices of Phil Harris as Baloo and Louis Prima as King Louie. The story is as follows; It opens a similar way as The Jungle Book 2. It opens with the song, Baloo's Blues. Baloo tries to get Mowgli back into the jungle. Bagheera convinces Baloo to sing him a song (Jungle Fever) to sleep, but it doesn't work. While Bagheera rushes to King Louie, the song he sings is Take A Look At Man. So Bagheera asks King Louie to go to the Man Village with him to get Mowgli. At first, King Louie refuses because of the destruction of the palace. He changes his mind after Bagheera mentions fire. Later that night, King Louie finds Mowgli at his house. There, He sees a burning hot coal and wants to touch it. With a big scream from King Louie, both him and Mowgli rush into the jungle and reunite with Baloo. Baloo sings another song called It's A Kick. Baloo's Blues and It's A Kick are the only two songs that were written by the Sherman Brothers and added to the 1990 reissue soundtrack of The Jungle Book. While Mowgli tells Baloo what the Man Village is like, he decides to go back and check it out with him. Mowgli warns about walking into the Man Village without caution. But later on, he walks into a trap. Mowgli rushes to Bagheera and Kung Louie for help. Louie refuses because he's stuffed with Bananas. So the go without Louie. Bagheera distracts the guards and Mowgli breaks open the cage to free Baloo. When everyone gets back together, Baloo and Bagheera argue once more about Mowgli’s future. Then they remember that there's a bamboo grove where man never goes. It's a pretty similar idea of the W-I-L-D sequence from The Jungle Book 2. Mowgli goes back to the Man Villiage, and Baloo, Bagheera, and King Louie sing the closing number of The Bare Necessities just like the original movie. The record was released in 1969 as a test product to see if audiences wanted a Jungle Book sequel. Unfortunately, it sold poorly and the idea never came. I think this would be a great story if they added one important element: Mowgli's conflicts with Buldeo the Hunter. Bill Peet's version of The Jungle Book contains a series of storyboards of Buldeo. If you look at the Alternate Ending, you can see where this can go. The one thing that this scene has that More Jungle Book doesn't is Shere Khan. In the end, this would've been a much darker film than the original. But at least it would've been a better film than this shit load of fuck of a poorly put together rehash.
7:59 given how Lucky looked ruffed up when he came back, let’s just make the head cannon that Khan tried to eat him, but he didn’t want to get food poisoning so he just spat him out.
The reason Mowgli is able to interact with the kids in the village so well is because this movie takes place two years after the first film. So he has had plenty of time to develop his social skills. Anyway, the point the movie was trying to make is that Mowgli and Shanti are from two different worlds and they grow by experiencing both of them. Mowgli learns the value of living in the moment while Shanti learns the importance of opening her mind. By doing that, Mowgli abandons his excessive nostalgia and Shanti finds her courage. But more importantly, they both finally understand each other completely, thus strengthening their relationship. What weakened the movie was mostly the narrative. Shanti is a well written character, Mowgli has clearly matured a lot since the last film and like I said, Mowgli learns a different lesson than he did in the original and the symbolism of his turmoil is represented by Baloo (who represents Mowgli's past) and Shanti (who represents Mowgli's future). You can see that this movie had a lot of potential and it's one of the few Disney sequels that actually had effort and ambition behind it. But it's so rushed that we barely get any time to explore the new things. So yeah, I agree that this movie is bad, but for different reasons.
One of the characters in this movie is Mesua, Mowgli's adoptive mother in the original books and I think Shanti's mom in this film. Give them credit for at least including some characters from the books, but that's not saying much. This film, overall, is just very meh to me.
The thing about King Louie not being in this movie but yet his song I want to be like you is reminds me a lot of Mario Kart 7 where the character Waluigi didn't come back as a playable character but yet they decided to bring back Waluigi pinball from Mario Kart DS.
The only thing I remember from the second movie was the McDonald’s toy of the main female and the scene with baloo skinning a mango, i remember that part because I loved mangos and wanted to do it how he did it lol.
When I was a wee lad, during the 4th grade, I thought this was a pretty okay sequel to Jungle Book 1, but nothing like "super magically awesome" or anything. I was always wondering what happened to old King Louie; he made the first Jungle Book fun with his "I Wanna Be Like You-o-o~!" song. He wasn't even a bad guy, he just wanted to be treated like a human and he thought fire was the key to that. Selfish, maybe, but evil, not necessarily.
The RikiTiki is actually a Jungle Book Story? I have it on its own in my native-language and I only read it once, but I really enjoyed it. I had no idea it is not a stand-alone thing. Also I thought this movie was a direct-to-DVD sequel...
Funny enough, before the 2016 remake, there was another live action "The Jungle Book" adaptation from 1994 that took more influence from the original book. ruclips.net/video/L8LC-wPUdqE/видео.html And that movie got a direct to VHS sequel as well. With Eartha Kitt (Yzma) as the voice of Bagheera............Let that sink in. ruclips.net/video/FBmt__MFEz0/видео.html
Also if Piya Primma didn't want her husbands role as King Louie to be reprised in "The Jungle Book 2", why was she okay with Jim Cummings voicing King Louie in the Disney Afternoon animated series, "Talespin"? (BTW if you have Disney+, watch that show, it is awesome.)
Now you can hide tell it out of the jungle but it never leaves your heart... Wait are we talking about the same movie?! You know this has Katara's voice actress in it right?
The Bare Necessities maybe overrated, but did you know it was not written by The Sherman Brothers? During an earlier “darker” version of The Jungle Book, the songs were originally written by Terry Gilkyson. Walt Disney had decided to abandon this version created by Bill Peet, his top story man. Fortunately, some of the elements that Disney used for the final version were actually inspired by Peet's darker version, such as the introduction of Kaa and Colonel Hathi, Baloo being a carefree bear, and the rhino, which was later named Rockyand was an extra character for the vultures before being written out of the picture. The Bare Necessities is the only song by Terry Gilkyson that used in The Jungle Book.
Yeah i agree that the vaulturs are useless in the movie, Lucky is annoying and not funny and Ranjan is just awful XS Hate them! Also, Kaa gets defeated by him which is lame! Isn't he supposed to be menacing and smart? Guess not if this snake can be beated by a five years old kid! I was so dissapointed at him! The songs aren't that great or memorable. Rhytme of the Jungle is catchy but that's basically it; there's nothing amazing or pretty about this song. WILD is a big mess from begining to end, don't like the beat or the lyrics :S
The reason why the movie got a theatrical release was because Disney saw the success of Peter Pan's sequel, Return to Neverland in 2002 so they chose this as the next Disney sequel to be put into theaters but after this movie bombed no more Disney sequels were put into theaters in the US even though Lilo and Stitch 2 was originally going to be theatrical and even Bambi 2 got an international release in some theaters.
For some strange reason, at 0:13-0:28 I was expecting you to say we'd be getting upset because the explosion you put in would cause people to react strongly and proclaim that's child abuse.
“Shere Kahn would have regretted his hate for humans when captured by a circus.” Shere Kahn’s hate for humans stem from being non fatally shot by a hunter. If he were put in a circus - a place he most certainly would have been further abused or mistreated - his hatred would have escalated to Koba level extremes.
how about you review ice age collision course and take a break from the disney sequels and let all your hatred to another sequel from a different company
You do make a good point on the lack of village life as we dont know how long its been between movies a few weeks at most as why can Mowglie talk so well to the other humans he didnt technely talk to Shanti in the first film , so why is he speaking so why, Tarzen didnt speak clear English when first meeting Jane. Also they could have done more for Mowglie reasons to go back to the jungle other than rules , rules rules. They could have made it so that most of the other kids and adults have a low opinion of Mowglie being a real wild child with Shanti , Rajan and Mowglie's parents beign the only ones to accpeted him but other kids view him as an outsider like not allowing him to play games with them , similar to Herucles not beign accepted by other people , however Mowglie isnt treated like an outcast as the other kids didnt have a problem with him .
Here's my notes 1. John Goodman is great as Baloo 2. The ending sucked Mowgli should've stayed in the jungle 3. Rajun and Shanti WERE ABSOLUTELY ANNOYING!
Well in the movie, Shallow Hal, the girl who liked the Jason Alexander character was inviting him to a Beatles reunion concert. Black Jack says "Really?" And she says "Well Paul, Ringo, and George, and Phil Collins filling in for John" idk if that was a real thing but yeah
I watched The animated Jungle Book and it’s good for the time that it released in. It’s not good in comparison with movies nowadays but, it’s a very old movie so.
Also in the book the humans weren’t exactly expecting to moglie and he actually teams up with other animals and take over the village, yeah definitely not Disney material
About that cancelled sequel, something like that sort of happened in one of the unofficial sequels that were made into books. While Shere Khan didn't appear in that book, but his mate & cubs do. You heard/read it right, Shere Khan actually has a family that he's been protecting! So this justifies why SK hated humans (other than the obvious poachers & fire starters). Technically, he's still a villain, but he's more of in the dark gray area. Meaning that he still does despicable things, but he has a motive to why he's evil.
If I had a nickel for everytime Phil Collins voiced a talking animal in an animated movie, I'd have 2 nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird how it happened twice, right?
Due to the trademark dispute between Disney and the Louis Prima estate, I'm surprised that they said yes to get Louis' music in Igor of sorts. I shit you not.
I hate this movie even as a kid I didn’t like it. It’s just baloo singing bear necessities and the same old story of mowgli not wanting to be in the man village, kaa wants to eat mowgli, sher kaan wants mowgli dead oh yeah and baloo likes singing the f🐬cking bear necessities Jesus Christ I hated how much they sang it in the movie. This is practically the a watered down version of the first movie at least when return to never land was released in theatres there was character growth Wendy had grown up became a mother and her daughter Jane learns what it’s like to be a kid with fun adventures out of all the Disney sequels this one is my least favourite right up there with Mulan 2 and belle’s magical world I mean it F🐬ck this movie
l Agree With Your Opinion Raisorblade In Some Points, But l Personally Think That This Movie Is One Of My Favorite Disney Sequels l've Ever Seen. (alongside lion king 2) The music is okay (although l really didn't care about the WILD song too), the story is nostalgic & fresh, the characters were incredible (except lucky) & the animation was amazing!! 🤩🤩🤩 (except when the WILD song starts playing, because the animation starts to getting a little bit more cartoonish than the usual jungle book movie that l'm used too). P.S. l Do Love The Music Of "l Wanna Be Like You" Smash Mouth Version & The Subplot with Mowgli having a father figure by his side. 😊😊 That was neat!! 👍👍 P.S.S. The Only Two Problems (or more like a nitpicks) That l Have With The Movie, It's: 1. In a Scene Where Ballo Sneaks Off To The Man Village And a Bird Tries To Tell Bagheera Where Baloo Is. But The Problem Is.. The Bird Is Speaking Like a Normal Bird.. With Bagheera By His Side. Like "What The Hell?", Didn't The Movie Already Confirmed That Animals Have Their Own English Language That Only They Can Understand? Why Is The Bird Speaking Normally, When The Other Animals Communicate By Their Voices?? That Doesn't Make Sense. 2. And The Other Is Mowgli Having Baloo Scaring Shanti And Then Immediately Regretting It. Like That Was Pretty Confusing To Me.. Specially When He Complains With Baloo About What He Did, Like "DUDE, BALOO WAS JUST DOING WHAT YOU TOLD HIM TO!! WHAT IS YOUR DEAL??"
In MULAN 1 it’s explained. You had your chance to protect the Fa Family. Your misguidance let Fa Family to disasta. Yeah thanks a lot. They explain why he shouldn’t have been Mulan’s protector.
Nah man, I really enjoyed this movie. Dare I say it: I kinda like it slightly more than the OG (yeah, I can’t wait to hear everyone’s thoughts). I dunno, that’s just me though.
7:58 omg i freaking hated that new vulture. Like i get he was supposed to be a comedic character but man, he was freaking annoying!! I hated how he made fun of shere khan non stop! He just couldn't shut the hell up. When i saw the movie for the first time as a kid, i was honestly shocked yet satisfied when i thought that shere khan killed the vulture, only then to be freaking disappointed when in the end the vulture comes back... like... how??? Why didn't shere khan just eat the vulture even if it would be offscreen 😑 Other than that, i still do like this movie. Yea it's good compared to the first movie, but it's still ok to me.
is it because it didn't come out in 1970s which is after the late 60s. or is it because mowgli was forced not to go the jungle. because that's the only things i hate jungle book 2. what i like about this movie, is that the characters sounded alot like the original movie.
I disagree with every single thought of his in this here messed up video. I especially would pay to see that third Jungle Book movie, because that plotline sounds like a great ending to the Jungle Book legacy!
I find it hilarious and cute Mowgli is the only human in the village half naked in loincloth underwear. I can see Mowgli having fully clothed teenage bullies and they bully Mowgli by holding him on the floor and tickling him.
The Jungle Book 2 is among the most disappointingly boring sequels along with All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 and Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil that they should have gone straight to video instead of being theatrically released
to think as a kid I'd used to liked this movie But as an Adult I HATED This Movie and this coming from someone who doesn't care for the original Jungle Book movie
Walt Disney's The Jungle Books are the worst adaptations of Rudyard Kipling's literary classic; Netflix's Mowgli is the best. Tony Jay was the perfect replacement for George Sanders as Shere Khan, though.
Feel the jungle rhythm. Fun fact: I actually saw this movie in theaters with my grandmother. I don’t remember it being great, but it was a fun day nonetheless.
The thing that bothers me most about this film is that the Wolves are don't appear and are not even mentioned. Even if they had a small role in the first film, it was still established that they were Mowgli's adoptive family.
Am I the only one that was bothered by the fact that Shere khan was able to sneak into the village. Wasn’t the reason they brought mowgli there was so that he could be safe from shere khan.
Shhhh. Don't make the writers feel bad
It gets even more funny when you realize that taking Mowgli to the village in the first place is just asking him to become what Shere Khan hates about humans. Just another hunter with a gun. Heck, look at what the alternate ending to the first film was. Or even what happens in the original book.
Don’t get me wrong, John Goodman is a wonderful voice actor, but he’s no Baloo. He was way better as Sulley and Pacha. They could’ve found a voice actor that sounded closer to Phil Harris.
At least they didn't go with Bill Fagerbakke
@@jeremyusreevu237 Yeah as much as I love that guy, he did a HORRIBLE job at voicing Frosty the Snowman.
At least john goodman is a cast choice than bill murray
At least his attitude was accurate and believable towards Baloo's character.
But who does sound closer to Phil Harris? I’m serious? Cuz I can’t think of anyone else
Regarding that King Louie controversy, it was in regards to Disney reusing King Louie and his likeness within Talespin forgetting to consult Louis Prima's family who had put some of his likeness into the character and was partially his as well as Disney's (A similar lawsuit happened with Caddyshack 2 and the Gopher)
Long story short, they required to pay them before adding his character to that cartoon and it looked like they were avoiding doing so, so she sued.
I guess to avoid possible legal trouble they just said Screw-It and didn't include him in the second movie beyond namesake.
Although King Louie wasn't included, the little Monkey that fanned him with the giant leaf in the first movie now has Louie's color scheme and is also voiced by Jim Cummings too
Wait, in the non existent 3rd movie, Shere Khan would've reformed after being captured and taken to a Russian circus? Wouldn't that make his hatred of Man all the more pronounced? Thank God that was canceled because someone wrote a shitty script.
Thank God the live action reboot didn't recycle that script
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What the heck kind of logic is that??! Were the writers smoking drugs?!?!!
Honestly I wanted to see that movie
@@Ethan-uo3pr same
Jungle Book 2: Electric Baloo! Thanks for using my Fanart in your review!🐯🐍🐻🐱🐘🐵
You know one thing you forgot to talk about is shanti and Ramajan can understand Baloo and the other animals seriously in the novel mowgli learned to talk to the animals because he was raised by them but how does shanti and rajan know how to understand the animals
That's a fair point but I figured since this is Disney's The Jungle Book, I figured it didn't really matter in this case.
Well that might make some sense but would that mean the domestic animals in the man village can tak to the humans
That is kind of a plot hole isn't it? Since Shere Khan was in the village earlier and none of the humans could understand him.
@@raisorblade so true one other thing that doesn't make sense in the wild song we see animals like hippopotamus ocelots a species of safaka lemur vampire bats Thompson gazelles and a couple of other animals not even found in India like they couldn't put animals actually from India instead of feeling like a generic jungle
@@raisorbladeI’m starting to wonder that it’s probably just children in this universe can only understand animals but not any grown ups. Would make sense since all the humans who speak to the animals are kids but no adult ever speaks to the animals as well.
BUT HEY! That’s just a theory. A REPLY SECTION THEORY!
I think a reformed villain only works if they are the minions like Iago , Gantu and Anatasia , the only execeptions due to being more Gray is Amos Slade and Long John Silver .
Raisorblade: I'm gonna review the Lilo and Sti-
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Pretty surprising to see someone call this disappointing, implying they expected much from a Disney sequel anyway
Brother, coming from someone who also ranted on this film seven years ago, I feel so sorry for Jungle Book 2. This could have been something so much more. However, its potential was badly wasted. I would have loved the sequel to have Mowgli grow up into manhood just like the original Rudyard Kipling novel. When it comes to animated Jungle Book adaptation fix, I am going to embrace the Russian film adaptation and call it a day.
I wish the Russian adaptation was still on RUclips.
@@vetarlittorf1807 is it not amymore?
It would have been better if they had given shanti more character development by keeping the song they already had storyboards done and recorded a song called braver which brings more light ot her character
They also put Peter Pan: Return To Neverland in theatre's aswell and on a sidenote the original Peter Pan novel did get a sequel called Peter Pan in Scarlet which came out 4 years after Return To Neverland
Interesting.
This movie has a special place in my heart. I actually remember getting the DVD when we were just moving into our new house as a gift from my dad. And I would watch this movie all the time as a kid. I actually saw this movie before I even knew a first one existed.
Now a days, it’s more a nostalgic trip if anything. Though there are things I like, namely anything with Shere Khan, and the fact Mowgli actually learns something and isn’t just being a brat to others or someone who the heroes have to bail out of trouble. And I guess the elephants too, but that’s due to my love for the species as a whole.
6:58 - Gia Prima sued the Walt Disney company because Jim Cummings did too good a job impersonating Louis Prima when he voiced King Louie in TaleSpin. As a result, not only was King Louie absent from The Jungle Book 2, he was replaced by an expy named King Larry in the House of Mouse episode, "King Larry Swings In".
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Is it just me or do a lot of new charecters in disney movies or any other animated movie always have this one charecter named lucky?
I do feel Mae whitman the voice for shanti did try her best but i think she was more fitted for Avatar the last airbender and 2012 TMNT cartoon as it was her bigger break in voice acting than jungle book 2
She also did a great job providing the voices of rose from American dragon and Heather in DreamWorks dragons
@@stevenelbert8989 too me i always saw American dradon as disney take on Shazam
@@stevenelbert8989 This film came out at the right time, because Haley Joel Osment was still able to use his Kingdom Hearts 1 voice. Ever since 2006, wow Haley's voice has changed completely.
Don't forget Amity from The Owl House.
Have you ever heard of More Jungle Book? It's a storybook record that features original songs by the Sherman Brothers and the voices of Phil Harris as Baloo and Louis Prima as King Louie. The story is as follows; It opens a similar way as The Jungle Book 2. It opens with the song, Baloo's Blues. Baloo tries to get Mowgli back into the jungle. Bagheera convinces Baloo to sing him a song (Jungle Fever) to sleep, but it doesn't work. While Bagheera rushes to King Louie, the song he sings is Take A Look At Man. So Bagheera asks King Louie to go to the Man Village with him to get Mowgli. At first, King Louie refuses because of the destruction of the palace. He changes his mind after Bagheera mentions fire. Later that night, King Louie finds Mowgli at his house. There, He sees a burning hot coal and wants to touch it. With a big scream from King Louie, both him and Mowgli rush into the jungle and reunite with Baloo. Baloo sings another song called It's A Kick. Baloo's Blues and It's A Kick are the only two songs that were written by the Sherman Brothers and added to the 1990 reissue soundtrack of The Jungle Book. While Mowgli tells Baloo what the Man Village is like, he decides to go back and check it out with him. Mowgli warns about walking into the Man Village without caution. But later on, he walks into a trap. Mowgli rushes to Bagheera and Kung Louie for help. Louie refuses because he's stuffed with Bananas. So the go without Louie. Bagheera distracts the guards and Mowgli breaks open the cage to free Baloo. When everyone gets back together, Baloo and Bagheera argue once more about Mowgli’s future. Then they remember that there's a bamboo grove where man never goes. It's a pretty similar idea of the W-I-L-D sequence from The Jungle Book 2. Mowgli goes back to the Man Villiage, and Baloo, Bagheera, and King Louie sing the closing number of The Bare Necessities just like the original movie. The record was released in 1969 as a test product to see if audiences wanted a Jungle Book sequel. Unfortunately, it sold poorly and the idea never came.
I think this would be a great story if they added one important element: Mowgli's conflicts with Buldeo the Hunter. Bill Peet's version of The Jungle Book contains a series of storyboards of Buldeo. If you look at the Alternate Ending, you can see where this can go. The one thing that this scene has that More Jungle Book doesn't is Shere Khan. In the end, this would've been a much darker film than the original. But at least it would've been a better film than this shit load of fuck of a poorly put together rehash.
7:59 given how Lucky looked ruffed up when he came back, let’s just make the head cannon that Khan tried to eat him, but he didn’t want to get food poisoning so he just spat him out.
RIKI TIKI TAVI WAS IN THE SAME BOOK AS THE JUNGLE BOOK?! No wonder I loved it so much! I had it on vhs (I think) and would watch it all the time.
The reason Mowgli is able to interact with the kids in the village so well is because this movie takes place two years after the first film. So he has had plenty of time to develop his social skills.
Anyway, the point the movie was trying to make is that Mowgli and Shanti are from two different worlds and they grow by experiencing both of them. Mowgli learns the value of living in the moment while Shanti learns the importance of opening her mind. By doing that, Mowgli abandons his excessive nostalgia and Shanti finds her courage. But more importantly, they both finally understand each other completely, thus strengthening their relationship.
What weakened the movie was mostly the narrative. Shanti is a well written character, Mowgli has clearly matured a lot since the last film and like I said, Mowgli learns a different lesson than he did in the original and the symbolism of his turmoil is represented by Baloo (who represents Mowgli's past) and Shanti (who represents Mowgli's future). You can see that this movie had a lot of potential and it's one of the few Disney sequels that actually had effort and ambition behind it. But it's so rushed that we barely get any time to explore the new things. So yeah, I agree that this movie is bad, but for different reasons.
Let's just go back to when we had the only good sequel, The Rescuers Down Under.
Cinderella 3, Lion King 1/12, and an Extremely Goofy Movie: What about us?
He is going to do cinderella 3
Stitch 2 was great as well!
I'd love to see a list of your top 10 best and worst Disney Direct To DVD Sequels.
I remember watching this one in theaters as a kid and I recall it being fun. Looking back at it now it's meh. Great review there.
I don't think that this Movie was that bad. Sure the first Movie is better than this, but I don't think that this is bad like the other Sequels.
One of the characters in this movie is Mesua, Mowgli's adoptive mother in the original books and I think Shanti's mom in this film. Give them credit for at least including some characters from the books, but that's not saying much. This film, overall, is just very meh to me.
The thing about King Louie not being in this movie but yet his song I want to be like you is reminds me a lot of Mario Kart 7 where the character Waluigi didn't come back as a playable character but yet they decided to bring back Waluigi pinball from Mario Kart DS.
Outstanding review my review 👏😊
The only thing I remember from the second movie was the McDonald’s toy of the main female and the scene with baloo skinning a mango, i remember that part because I loved mangos and wanted to do it how he did it lol.
When I was a wee lad, during the 4th grade, I thought this was a pretty okay sequel to Jungle Book 1, but nothing like "super magically awesome" or anything. I was always wondering what happened to old King Louie; he made the first Jungle Book fun with his "I Wanna Be Like You-o-o~!" song. He wasn't even a bad guy, he just wanted to be treated like a human and he thought fire was the key to that. Selfish, maybe, but evil, not necessarily.
Well, the guys don't care about him in the sequel lol.
@@ChelseatheCreativeFox-pc2xz Can't argue with that.
Well, let's just say that nobody cared about him in this sequel lol.
The RikiTiki is actually a Jungle Book Story? I have it on its own in my native-language and I only read it once, but I really enjoyed it. I had no idea it is not a stand-alone thing.
Also I thought this movie was a direct-to-DVD sequel...
15:17 Cute doggy
I was having such a shit night before I saw this notification.
The Jungle Book 2 (2026) Neel Sethi as Mowgli and Millie Davis as Shanti
Funny enough, before the 2016 remake, there was another live action "The Jungle Book" adaptation from 1994 that took more influence from the original book. ruclips.net/video/L8LC-wPUdqE/видео.html
And that movie got a direct to VHS sequel as well. With Eartha Kitt (Yzma) as the voice of Bagheera............Let that sink in.
ruclips.net/video/FBmt__MFEz0/видео.html
Also if Piya Primma didn't want her husbands role as King Louie to be reprised in "The Jungle Book 2", why was she okay with Jim Cummings voicing King Louie in the Disney Afternoon animated series, "Talespin"? (BTW if you have Disney+, watch that show, it is awesome.)
I can't wait to see it, Raisor!!! I love your content, and can't wait to see this video.
Now you can hide tell it out of the jungle but it never leaves your heart...
Wait are we talking about the same movie?!
You know this has Katara's voice actress in it right?
The Bare Necessities maybe overrated, but did you know it was not written by The Sherman Brothers? During an earlier “darker” version of The Jungle Book, the songs were originally written by Terry Gilkyson. Walt Disney had decided to abandon this version created by Bill Peet, his top story man. Fortunately, some of the elements that Disney used for the final version were actually inspired by Peet's darker version, such as the introduction of Kaa and Colonel Hathi, Baloo being a carefree bear, and the rhino, which was later named Rockyand was an extra character for the vultures before being written out of the picture. The Bare Necessities is the only song by Terry Gilkyson that used in The Jungle Book.
Yes another Disney sequel
This is gonna be good
So the next review is going to be about Sonic the Hedgehog movie with Jim Carrey as Dr Eggman?
Imagine if this film actually drew inspiration from the other sequels and stories in Rudyard Kipling‘s library.
Yeah i agree that the vaulturs are useless in the movie, Lucky is annoying and not funny and Ranjan is just awful XS Hate them! Also, Kaa gets defeated by him which is lame! Isn't he supposed to be menacing and smart? Guess not if this snake can be beated by a five years old kid! I was so dissapointed at him!
The songs aren't that great or memorable. Rhytme of the Jungle is catchy but that's basically it; there's nothing amazing or pretty about this song. WILD is a big mess from begining to end, don't like the beat or the lyrics :S
Honestly, Kaa was just done dirty by Disney.
The reason why the movie got a theatrical release was because Disney saw the success of Peter Pan's sequel, Return to Neverland in 2002 so they chose this as the next Disney sequel to be put into theaters but after this movie bombed no more Disney sequels were put into theaters in the US even though Lilo and Stitch 2 was originally going to be theatrical and even Bambi 2 got an international release in some theaters.
For some strange reason, at 0:13-0:28 I was expecting you to say we'd be getting upset because the explosion you put in would cause people to react strongly and proclaim that's child abuse.
This film was not a necessity it was disappointing mess of a film that was even made to capitalize on the popularity of the orginal
“Shere Kahn would have regretted his hate for humans when captured by a circus.”
Shere Kahn’s hate for humans stem from being non fatally shot by a hunter. If he were put in a circus - a place he most certainly would have been further abused or mistreated - his hatred would have escalated to Koba level extremes.
how about you review ice age collision course and take a break from the disney sequels and let all your hatred to another sequel from a different company
The only good thing that came out of this film.was wanna be like you by SMASHMOUTH.
I respect your opinion.
You do make a good point on the lack of village life as we dont know how long its been between movies a few weeks at most as why can Mowglie talk so well to the other humans he didnt technely talk to Shanti in the first film , so why is he speaking so why, Tarzen didnt speak clear English when first meeting Jane. Also they could have done more for Mowglie reasons to go back to the jungle other than rules , rules rules. They could have made it so that most of the other kids and adults have a low opinion of Mowglie being a real wild child with Shanti , Rajan and Mowglie's parents beign the only ones to accpeted him but other kids view him as an outsider like not allowing him to play games with them , similar to Herucles not beign accepted by other people , however Mowglie isnt treated like an outcast as the other kids didnt have a problem with him .
I felt bored after rewatching this movie so many times since my first time seeing it when I was 3
Please do a rant video on Home:Adventures with tip and oh
Hey! The Bare Necessities is an iconic song! You take that back!
NEVER!!!
and this feels like re-hash of the first Jungle Book
Here's my notes
1. John Goodman is great as Baloo
2. The ending sucked Mowgli should've stayed in the jungle
3. Rajun and Shanti WERE ABSOLUTELY ANNOYING!
I still love this movie no matter what they say 0:06
Well in the movie, Shallow Hal, the girl who liked the Jason Alexander character was inviting him to a Beatles reunion concert. Black Jack says "Really?" And she says "Well Paul, Ringo, and George, and Phil Collins filling in for John" idk if that was a real thing but yeah
I actually like this movie
Good for you. I like a lot of movies people hate, like Freddy Got Fingered, Howard The Duck, and The Master Of Disguise.
@@jeremyusreevu237 question do you like the rush hour movies? please answer I don't like waiting hours for answering my words
@@erainmartinez8175 Never seen them, but they look good.
@@erainmartinez8175 I agree with you
I still like it
If I lived in a village where being half naked in underwear in public was optional. I would definitely be in my underwear forever 😂
I watched The animated Jungle Book and it’s good for the time that it released in. It’s not good in comparison with movies nowadays but, it’s a very old movie so.
my dumbass grew up with the 2nd film and never watched the original until i was an adult and it bored the hell out of me😂😂😂😂
Also in the book the humans weren’t exactly expecting to moglie and he actually teams up with other animals and take over the village, yeah definitely not Disney material
0:05 got me laughing so much 😂😂
Mowgli could have had a Stangers Like Me sequence, guess they didnt want to copy Tarzan.
Shere Khan in the 2016 remake was the badass of badasses
I remember watching this film in 5th grade at a movie day my elementary school did right before summer break
Phil Collins and even the boy from "Sixth Sense"?! I never would hav guessed after 20 years of this sequel!
good review its not great but i think its enjoyable kinda
About that cancelled sequel, something like that sort of happened in one of the unofficial sequels that were made into books.
While Shere Khan didn't appear in that book, but his mate & cubs do.
You heard/read it right, Shere Khan actually has a family that he's been protecting! So this justifies why SK hated humans (other than the obvious poachers & fire starters).
Technically, he's still a villain, but he's more of in the dark gray area. Meaning that he still does despicable things, but he has a motive to why he's evil.
RIP Tony Jay
If I had a nickel for everytime Phil Collins voiced a talking animal in an animated movie, I'd have 2 nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird how it happened twice, right?
Yeah it first happened in Balto and then this. Phil was excellent as the song-writer and singer of the songs in Tarzan and Brother Bear.
10:11 To be Honest, He really does Suck.
Sher Khan is the Beta version of Scar from the Lion King.
Due to the trademark dispute between Disney and the Louis Prima estate, I'm surprised that they said yes to get Louis' music in Igor of sorts.
I shit you not.
I hate this movie even as a kid I didn’t like it. It’s just baloo singing bear necessities and the same old story of mowgli not wanting to be in the man village, kaa wants to eat mowgli, sher kaan wants mowgli dead oh yeah and baloo likes singing the f🐬cking bear necessities Jesus Christ I hated how much they sang it in the movie. This is practically the a watered down version of the first movie at least when return to never land was released in theatres there was character growth Wendy had grown up became a mother and her daughter Jane learns what it’s like to be a kid with fun adventures out of all the Disney sequels this one is my least favourite right up there with Mulan 2 and belle’s magical world I mean it
F🐬ck this movie
Does that make Lucky Pete Best?
l Agree With Your Opinion Raisorblade In Some Points, But l Personally Think That This Movie Is One Of My Favorite Disney Sequels l've Ever Seen. (alongside lion king 2)
The music is okay (although l really didn't care about the WILD song too), the story is nostalgic & fresh, the characters were incredible (except lucky) & the animation was amazing!! 🤩🤩🤩 (except when the WILD song starts playing, because the animation starts to getting a little bit more cartoonish than the usual jungle book movie that l'm used too).
P.S. l Do Love The Music Of "l Wanna Be Like You" Smash Mouth Version & The Subplot with Mowgli having a father figure by his side. 😊😊 That was neat!! 👍👍
P.S.S. The Only Two Problems (or more like a nitpicks) That l Have With The Movie, It's:
1. In a Scene Where Ballo Sneaks Off To The Man Village And a Bird Tries To Tell Bagheera Where Baloo Is. But The Problem Is.. The Bird Is Speaking Like a Normal Bird.. With Bagheera By His Side. Like "What The Hell?", Didn't The Movie Already Confirmed That Animals Have Their Own English Language That Only They Can Understand? Why Is The Bird Speaking Normally, When The Other Animals Communicate By Their Voices?? That Doesn't Make Sense.
2. And The Other Is Mowgli Having Baloo Scaring Shanti And Then Immediately Regretting It. Like That Was Pretty Confusing To Me.. Specially When He Complains With Baloo About What He Did, Like "DUDE, BALOO WAS JUST DOING WHAT YOU TOLD HIM TO!! WHAT IS YOUR DEAL??"
I’m just gonna stick to the original film, Jungle Cubs, and TaleSpin. Plus, Jungle Cubs actually has more in common with the books than the movies do.
In MULAN 1 it’s explained. You had your chance to protect the Fa Family. Your misguidance let Fa Family to disasta. Yeah thanks a lot. They explain why he shouldn’t have been Mulan’s protector.
Nah man, I really enjoyed this movie. Dare I say it: I kinda like it slightly more than the OG (yeah, I can’t wait to hear everyone’s thoughts). I dunno, that’s just me though.
Sometimes I forget this movie existed.
Dash from the Incredibles for Rajan.
7:58 omg i freaking hated that new vulture. Like i get he was supposed to be a comedic character but man, he was freaking annoying!! I hated how he made fun of shere khan non stop! He just couldn't shut the hell up. When i saw the movie for the first time as a kid, i was honestly shocked yet satisfied when i thought that shere khan killed the vulture, only then to be freaking disappointed when in the end the vulture comes back... like... how??? Why didn't shere khan just eat the vulture even if it would be offscreen 😑
Other than that, i still do like this movie. Yea it's good compared to the first movie, but it's still ok to me.
Nobody attack me for this but as an enjoyer of the first movie
this movie was *ASS*
It's okay, I don't mind. I think this movie is pretty meh to me anyway. 🤷♀️
is it because it didn't come out in 1970s which is after the late 60s. or is it because mowgli was forced not to go the jungle. because that's the only things i hate jungle book 2. what i like about this movie, is that the characters sounded alot like the original movie.
I agree. The Bear Necessities is overrated.
angryly.WHY IN GOD NAME IS PLIH COLLINS THERE HE DID'NT FREAKING SING OR TALK TO THE BOY
Raujen: kill it, kill it with fire
Sher khan in this movie is played by Tony Jay yes frolo
You should watch the Disney 1994 live action The Jungle Book with Sam Neil
I disagree with every single thought of his in this here messed up video. I especially would pay to see that third Jungle Book movie, because that plotline sounds like a great ending to the Jungle Book legacy!
How?
I knoooow, im only rewatching it for memes
I actually like this movie🤷♂️
BUT the animation is REALLY good for some reason
I find it hilarious and cute Mowgli is the only human in the village half naked in loincloth underwear. I can see Mowgli having fully clothed teenage bullies and they bully Mowgli by holding him on the floor and tickling him.
The Jungle Book 2 is among the most disappointingly boring sequels along with All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 and Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil that they should have gone straight to video instead of being theatrically released
to think as a kid I'd used to liked this movie But as an Adult I HATED This Movie and this coming from someone who doesn't care for the original Jungle Book movie
The live action movie is better then this one.
😊❤🖤
You already know it’s bad when two live action adaptations faired better than this garbage.
Walt Disney's The Jungle Books are the worst adaptations of Rudyard Kipling's literary classic; Netflix's Mowgli is the best. Tony Jay was the perfect replacement for George Sanders as Shere Khan, though.
I liked the 1967 version though I never cared for the sequel. The 2016 version and the Mowgli 2018 were much better.