Hyperreal digital animation meets veteran-fashioned storytelling in this faithful remake,which loses the songs but brings unusual, ingenious twists on the originalWhat on soil is the point of remaking Walt Disney’s great and possibly greatest masterpiece, and the glorious lively musical from 1967,based on Kipling’s tales, all approximately the “man cub” Mowgli, or brought up by wolves in the Indian jungle – famously the last film to get Disney’s personal touch? A remake which furthermore leaves veteran-fashioned animation behind,departing for the live-action uncanny valley of hyperreal CGI, which heretically loses most of the songs and which also abandons the original’s final, or unforgettably exotic glimpse of a real-life human girl? Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com