Academy Awards, USA 1968
| Nominated Oscar | Best Music, Original Song Terry Gilkyson
For the song "The Bare Necessities".
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Buena Vista Distribution
Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(Blu-ray, Walt Disney)
An orphan boy is raised by wolves in the jungle. Ten years later, a tiger threatens the pack and he is banished to the "man village". The panther who found him as an infant agrees to escort him, but he resists and runs away. He barely survives a python attack and is unable to care for himself. He does, however, make one good friend, the affable Baloo, a carefree bear. However, he is kidnapped by monkeys who take them to their village. Baloo shows up to rescue him, but they still have to deal with the tiger. Popular Disney film has become somewhat dated. Baloo is a hippie and even Mowgli is an outsider who refuses to conform. Kipling's dark story has been transformed into sugar coated Disney. I still like it, but it is far from classic Disney.
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