5/13/2023 0 Comments The second jungle book"I am picking off his fleas every day!'' Ho, ho. When we first see him, he's aghast because his pet monkey has escaped and is frolicking with Mowgli ( Jamie Williams) on a train. He's a caricature, a collection of Indian stereotypes. Great effort was obviously expended on the film-some of these sequences could not have been easy to shoot, and they look good-but the filmmakers were content with a limp story, one of those ready-made combinations of chases that aren't exciting and pratfalls that aren't funny.Ĭonsider Chuchandra ( David Paul Francis), the major Indian character. Adult characters are thrown in for broad comedy and manufactured thrills. It gives us a child actor whose acting is limited largely to looking agog in closeups, while the editor cuts to shots of animals. "Rudyard Kipling's Second Jungle Book: Mowgli and Baloo'' (which has the longest movie title since "Swept Away by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August'') is not the one.
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