I came to "Jungle Book" for the beautiful Technicolor cinematography everyone was raving about. It is a pretty good looking movie for the time period, but the scenes set outside of the jungle do have that flat, garish look so common to color films from the 1940s. It's probably easy to underestimate now what a big deal it was that an actor like Sabu could carry a film at a time when most roles of color (and even some in this movie) were played by white actors in makeup. But I wasn't very engaged in this movie. Nothing about it is especially bad, but nothing is ever thrilling either, and the worst crime a jungle adventure can commit is to be "meh."
Grade: C.
Grade: C.