The Jungle Book 2

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The Jungle Book 2 is a 2003 animated movie produced by DisneyToon Studios in Sydney, Australia. It was released by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution. It was released in France on February 5, 2003, and released in the United States on February 14, 2003. It is the sequel to Walt Disney's 1967 movie The Jungle Book. Haley Joel Osment did the voice of Mowgli, and John Goodman did the voice of Baloo. The movie was going to be a direct-to-video movie, but it was released in theaters first. The movie is not based on The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (published in 1895). However, they do have some of the same characters. When released, the movie was criticised mainly for its bad animation and a story similar to the original movie. Disney released the VHS and DVD versions on June 10, 2003. On June 17, 2008 a Special Edition DVD was released.

Mowgli feels unwelcome and out of place in the human village where he now lives. When Baloo arrives for a visit, Mowgli leaves with him to go back to the jungle. However, his friend Shanti thinks he was kidnapped. She follows him into the jungle. Shere Khan is still hunting for Mowgli, which puts him, as well as Shanti and Baloo, in danger. Mowgli must decide whether he wants to live in the jungle with Baloo, or stay in the village with Shanti.

• Haley Joel Osment as Mowgli
• John Goodman as Baloo
• Mae Whitman as Shanti
• Connor Funk as Ranjan
• Bob Joles as Bagheera
• Tony Jay as Shere Khan
• John Rhys-Davies as Ranjan's father
• Robert Guillaume as Kaa
• Conrad Vernon as Bird
• Jim Cummings as Colonel Hathi
• Kevin McDonald as M.C. Monkey (in the original movie, he was named Flunkey)
• Phil Collins as Lucky
• Jeff Glen Bennett as Buzzie
• Veena Bidasha as Messua
• Brian Cummings as Dizzy
• Baron Davis as Flaps
• Bobby Edner as Hathi Jr.
• Jess Harnell as Ziggy
• Devika Parikh as a woman

• John Goodman recorded his voice work in New Orleans while Haley Joel Osment recorded his in California.
• Due to a legal dispute, the character of King Louie from the original Jungle Book could not be included in this movie. However, he makes a cameo in the prologue of the movie and is briefly mentioned in the middle of the movie.
• The decision was made to keep Shere Khan in shadow during the beginning of the movie to "reflect his 'wounded pride'".^[2]

The band Smash Mouth recorded a cover of the Sherman Brothers song, "I Wanna Be Like You" (originally from the 1967 musical movie), which is featured on this movie's soundtrack.

Many people thought that The Jungle Book 2 was too much like the original 1967 classic. Many people thought it should have gone direct-to-video like what it was originally made for. On Rotten Tomatoes, the general opinion is "This inferior rehash of The Jungle Book should have gone straight to video." Based on 86 reviews, the movie has a "rotten" 19%, with an average score of 4.4.^[3] In the "cream of the crop" division, the movie has a 17% with an average score of 4.1.^[4] In the RT Community, it has a 30%, with an average score of 3.7.^[5]

The movie has made a total domestic gross of $47,901,582.^[1]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} "The Jungle Book 2 (2003) - Box Office Mojo". www.boxofficemojo.com.
2. ↑ Tracy, Joe. "A Look at The Jungle Book 2". Digital Media FX. Retrieved 2008-09-11.
3. ↑ "The Jungle Book 2 (2003)" – via www.rottentomatoes.com.
4. ↑ "The Jungle Book 2 (2003)" – via www.rottentomatoes.com.
5. ↑ "Jungle Book 2". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on 2005-01-09. Retrieved 2008-11-01.

• Official website
• The Jungle Book 2 at AllMovie
• The Jungle Book 2 at the Big Cartoon DataBase
• The Jungle Book 2 on IMDb
• The Jungle Book 2 at Rotten Tomatoes