{"id":696,"date":"2016-05-03T15:06:46","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T15:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bagleyinsurance.com\/?p=696"},"modified":"2016-05-03T15:06:46","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T15:06:46","slug":"movie-review-the-jungle-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bagleyinsurance.com\/?p=696","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: The Jungle Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year was the year of nostalgia for film, with movies like <em>Creed<\/em> and <em>Star Wars: The Force Awakens<\/em> showing us that Hollywood doesn&#8217;t need original ideas &#8211; they just need to keep remaking old ones.\u00a0 And I&#8217;m actually being serious &#8211; I love that <em>Creed<\/em> was better than most Rocky movies while still capturing the same spirit, and ditto for Star Wars.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Jungle Book<\/em> is just the latest movie that gets it right &#8211; perfectly capturing the spirit of the original cartoon, but can completely stand on its own as well.\u00a0 It is a quality movie, seamlessly blending the CGI effects of the jungle with the excellent voice-work of actors like Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley, Christopher Walken, and Idris Elba.\u00a0 Everyone is perfectly cast in their roles (I can&#8217;t imaging any better than Murray as the lovable Bear Baloo).<\/p>\n<p>While it is not a full-on musical, there are a couple of songs that they pulled directly from the 1967 cartoon, and they are perfect.\u00a0 They couldn&#8217;t have made this movie without &#8216;The Bare Necessities&#8217; and &#8216;I Wanna Be Like You,&#8217; so they just went for it and did an awesome job.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t recommend this movie enough for kids and adults of all ages (my five and two-year-olds both loved it).\u00a0 If Hollywood keeps churning out remakes this good, who needs anything new?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Grade: A-<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year was the year of nostalgia for film, with movies like Creed and Star Wars: The Force Awakens showing us that Hollywood doesn&#8217;t need original ideas &#8211; they just need to keep remaking old ones.\u00a0 And I&#8217;m actually being serious &#8211; I love that Creed was better than most Rocky movies while still capturing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagleyinsurance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagleyinsurance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagleyinsurance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagleyinsurance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagleyinsurance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bagleyinsurance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":698,"href":"https:\/\/bagleyinsurance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions\/698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagleyinsurance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagleyinsurance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagleyinsurance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}