I like the movie. My favorite part of it is when Mowgli, Shanti, and Baloo trick Shere Khan into getting trapped in a statue. My favorite part is when Shere Khan dies in the lava pit.

The 1967 Jungle Book was about a baby left in the jungle, a caring Jaguar took the basket to the opening of a wolf's den so that the mother could raise the baby with her pups. This baby grew up to be Mowgli and when he was about 10, taken to a village to be with people of his own kind.This 2003 sequel, 'Jungle Book 2', was released on DVD recently, or at least my library only got it recently. It is very faithful to the original characters, but the animation is a bit more polished and sharp. Also modern actors voiced the roles. It pretty closely takes up where the original left off.The story is simple, even though Mowgli seems happy with his new adopted family, and has a young girlfriend in Shanti, he misses the jungle and his wild friends, especially the big gentle bear Baloo. So he wanders out into the jungle and Shanti goes looking for him. While in the jungle they have close brushes with danger, especially the big Tiger that wants to eat Mowgli.Of course all ends well, this is a Disney movie, and Mowgli goes back to the village and resumes his pleasant life. John Goodman is superb as the voice of Baloo, and Haley Joel Osment, maybe 13 or 14 during recording, is good as Mowgli, as well as young Mae Whitman as Shanti. They even did their own singing.A pleasant, small movie, barely over one hour.

This movie is by far the worst of the Disney sequesls. Jungle Book the original is my favorite Disney movie(10/10)and was a movie that did not need a sequel. Some of the Disney sequels were ecceptional like rescuers down under was better than the original, or just okay like Lion King II, but this was not needed. The voice acting for baloo is so terrible (john goodman) that me and my brother call this baloo Satan baloo. he is the total opposite of the coolest Disney character period. this is not baloo this is Satan Baloo. to make matters worse, on the Disney 40th anniversary, he was voiced by john goodman on the interactive game. If you are a Disney hard-@$$, then do not see this movie.

A few weeks ago, they re-released The Jungle Book on Disney DVD and I watched it after not seeing it for years and I just forgot how much I loved it. I saw that it had a sequel and I figured it might be worth a look. I watched it tonite and even though it wasn't a bad attempt, it was not really necessary to make it. The first Jungle Book ended so well and had a perfect happy ending, this was just a strange continuation on the story. They do bring back our favorite characters which I loved, like the snake, he's so cheesy, but he always cracks me up. Bagera, the panther, once again, I just love him, he tries to do right all the time, but he always gets hurt in the process. And of course Baloo is always there to bring some life and fun to the story with the simple bare necessities.Maugli is living in the village with a new family and life. But it's not the life he's always wanted, it has work and rules. He tells the other kids about the jungle, but they don't believe on how fun it is. Baloo and Bagera are in the jungle and Baloo just misses Maugli so much and brings him back to the jungle. But they're in big trouble, Shanti and her little brother(children from Maugli's village) follow Maugli and they are all being followed by Sher Kahn who wants revenge on Maugli for making a fool out of him.The Jungle Book 2 is a cute Disney sequel, but for those who love the original, it doesn't hold a candle up to the first Jungle Book. But for the kids and just a regular family film for the afternoon. I have to admit that there was a scene that definitely made me laugh, when the snake sees Shanti and tries to eat her, but her little brother beats him up, pretty good too, I couldn't help but laugh out loud. There are some fun moments, so it's worth a look, but I do of course prefer the first Jungle Book.4/10