Product Details

• Actors: Phil Harris, Sebastian Cabot, Louis Prima, Bruce Reitherman, George Sanders
• Directors: Wolfgang Reitherman
• Writers: Bill Peet, Ken Anderson, Larry Clemmons, Ralph Wright, Rudyard Kipling
• Producers: Walt Disney
• Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, THX
• Rated: G (General Audience)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Walt Disney Home Video
• VHS Release Date: October 14, 1997
• Run Time: 78 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (325 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304500831
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,655 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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Disney's 1967 animated feature seems even more entertaining now than it did upon first release, with a hall-of-fame vocal performance by Phil Harris as Baloo, the genial bear friend of feral child Mowgli. Based on fiction by Rudyard Kipling, the film goes its own way as Disney animation will, but the strong characters and smart casting (George Sanders as the villainous tiger, Shere Khan) make it one of the studio's stronger feature-length cartoons. Songs include "The Bare Necessities" and "Trust in Me." --Tom Keogh

Product Description

This video is the original Walt Disney's Junglebook.

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385 of 404 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I love the movie but this DVD is seriously flawed, October 2, 2007

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Michael Baker "mbaker_jr" (Tallahassee, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Jungle Book (Two-Disc 40th Anniversary Platinum Edition) (DVD)

I picked this DVD up today and got it home to find that Disney had altered the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.33:1 to make the movie "fit" on widescreen TVs. They did this by chopping off the top and bottom of the image. This results in the loss of a good deal of character animation (at least the tops of their heads and their feet). Trust me, I own the original Limited Issue DVD of this film and I did a side-by-side comparison as soon as I got the new Platinum Edition home. If you are a purist about original aspect ratios, please avoid this release and petition Disney to start a free disc replacement program. We should at least have the option of watching the original unaltered film the way that it was meant to be seen.
***NOTE: There are now user images that can be viewed for this product that illustrate the cropping discussed in my review.

117 of 123 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Bear Necessity, April 29, 2000

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A. Fultz (Santa Barbara, CA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Jungle Book (Limited Issue) (DVD)

This movie is more than just another Disney masterpiece. The Jungle Book is a great tale of friendship and adventure. Although almost every animated feature that was created during Walt Disney's life is a classic, this one in particular holds a special place in the heart of many men (and now thanks to video and DVD, boys) who saw it while growing up. There isn't a boy alive who can see this movie and not want to be Mowgli. What a life it would be to live in the jungle, with friends like Baloo and Bagheera. It is every young boys dream to be so free.

That is not to say that only boys will love this movie. As with all Disney films, this one will be enjoyed by all members of the family, young and old. I saw it growing up, and never forgot my memories of the movie, and the days afterward, singing the songs and dreaming of adventure.

The music in The Jungle Book is some of the best in any Disney movie. "The Bare Necessities" is simply one of the best songs ever. Add in the fantastic animation and the characters that come to life (who wouldn't believe a bear could sing after seeing this?), and you have one of the many classic Disney stories.

Starring the voices of Disney regulars Phil Harris and Sterling Holloway, as well as Sebastian Cabot (Mr. French, to those of my generation) and many others, this movie is too good to not buy.

Get a copy of this DVD before Disney removes it for another generation. It is the best that Disney has to offer.

110 of 119 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Disney's The Jungle Book - Limited Issue DVD, August 18, 2001

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"dvdcollector18" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Jungle Book (Limited Issue) (DVD)

When it comes to DVDs, I would probably be the first in line to complain about releases that have mediocre supplements. But I felt like I had to make an exception when it came to Disney. All of their "Limited Issues" seem to have little or no extras at all, but the actual animated classic that the disc holds, for me anyway, more then makes up for it.

"The Jungle Book" is one of the first Disney Movies that I watched as a kid. I bought the DVD, and I saw the movie today for the first time in around 12 years. The entertainment value is suprisingly still there, and more over, as a grown up movie fan, I can appreciate the film more as a classic in animated films from Disney & not just a 'cartoon' to pass the time, like I considered it to be as an adolecent.

The picture and sound is satisfying for the film's age and genre; the Spanish Dubbing is an excellent addition, for some of my family anyway. But it pales in comparison to the English vocals; The animation is terrific, too bad it wasn't created in a widescreen aspect ratio, it would have been a great visual to have looked at (The film is presented in it's original theatrical aspect ratio, 1.33:1).

Now that the announcment of Disney's 10 "Platinum Editions" have been made (The first of the 10 being "Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs", but "Jungle Book" will be one of the other 9), this "Jungle Book - Limited Issue" is a fine way to have the film until the full-fleged "Jungle Book - Platinum Edition" is released sometime in the next decade. Thanks to this DVD, I am now looking foward to add more of Disney's hard-core classics to my DVD collection.