The Jungle Book 2 Critic Reviews

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Los Angeles Times | Kevin ThomasAdd Critic to Favorites

A work of such charm and imagination it should enchant, as the old circus phrase goes, "children of all ages." Read the full review

Washington Post | Jane HorwitzAdd Critic to Favorites

A cute sequel to the 1967 Disney classic, is likely to provide 72 minutes of enjoyment and a few scary thrills to tykes, as well as a pleasant diversion for parents.Read the full review

Boston Globe | Ty BurrAdd Critic to Favorites

Note that it took six writers to come up with the script for The Jungle Book 2. Note that Rudyard Kipling isn't one of them.Read the full review

Entertainment Weekly | Scott BrownAdd Critic to Favorites

The same money-minded dreamers who found a way to ''Return to Neverland'' have hacked a path back to Baloo heaven.Read the full review

USA Today | Claudia PuigAdd Critic to Favorites

Offers up the absolute bare necessities of a sequel.Read the full review

Variety | Todd McCarthyAdd Critic to Favorites

The feel of a direct-to-video title that's been upgraded to theatrical status in the hopes of wringing a few extra bucks out of it and improving its not-too-distant homevid marketability.Read the full review

ReelViews | James BerardinelliAdd Critic to Favorites

This lame animated fable, despite having "direct-to-video" written all over it, was released by Disney, in an act of unparalleled greed and desperation, into multiplexes.Read the full review

Washington Post | Michael O'SullivanAdd Critic to Favorites

The franchise is cheapened by Disney's crass commercialism in releasing material that, by rights, should have gone straight to video. Read the full review

Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites

Thin and unsatisfying.Read the full review

The Onion (A.V. Club) | Tasha RobinsonAdd Critic to Favorites

Even the animation is imitative rather than inventive.Read the full review

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