The plot is very conventional and none of the characters are really interesting, nor do I ever feel strongly about any of them. It seemed like the film tired to walk this weird line between realistic medieval setting and high fantasy, whilst also dipping into a stereotypical elements of horror/tension with the witch.
The Jungle Book pretty much follows the familiar story of the 1967 version. Orphaned 'man cub' Mowgli (Neel Sethi) is raised by a pack of wolves and the panther Bagheera (Ben Kingsley). Neel Sethi is a perfect Mowgli and the casting of the voice actors is pretty much spot on. Especially King Louie (Christopher Walken), a gigantopithecus who's a prehistoric ancestor of modern orangutans.
