Jungle Book 2 fits neatly ... a sorry set of insistent stand-up impressions of its predecessor. And when it runs out of ways to reprise the original Jungle Book, it coyly reprises its own song ...

Its jungle is close enough to reality to feel ... especially during the closing credits, which unfurl like a pop-up book filled with tiny versions of all the animals you’ve just met.

The similarity between The Jungle Book and Panchatantra tales feels lilke more than a coincidence to me. I don't know if Kipling ever admitted to it, but having grown up in India, he must have ...

This extrapolation of the climate crisis is where Akram Khan’s “Jungle Book Reimagined” begins ... is dangerous and hypnotizing but also hung up on memories of captivity in a zoo.