Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (1994)

[InformationGeek]

Through a couple random searches, I came across this movie.  I remember seeing it like over 8 to 10 years ago and it never really left much of an impression on me.  Well... outside of the ending were a person got killed in terrible way (Quicksand, tiger mauling, falling off a cliff, trapped in anicent booby trap, that sort of thing).  Anyways, I guess it was interesting seeing the Jungle Book a different way other than the animated verison (I am aware of the novel), though I never really liked it.  So, if any of you say it, what do you think?

[schmendrik]

I think you're talking about this one, right?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110213/

I enjoyed it. I didn't think it had much to do with the Kipling story, but the adult Mowgli was an interesting take. I liked the scene with Mowgli learning English. And Cary Elwes was enjoyably evil and got a suitably bad end.

[InformationGeek]

I think you're talking about this one, right?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110213/

Correct.

[BoyScoutKevin]

There was actually an earlier live action version from 1942 with Sabu as Mowgli. The only other notable thing about it, that I can remember, was that it starred Rosemary DeCamp, who played Mowgli's mother. You may remember her as the TV pitchwoman for Boraxo soap.

I like this live action version better. With Jason Scott Lee as Mowgli, Cary Elwes in one of his few roles as the villain, Sam Neill, and John Cleese, who makes a nice in-joke about the earlier animated version.

And, yes, the villains deaths were particularly nasty in this one, but memorable.