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Number 451 for those of you playing the home game. Welcome, my name is Rob, I'm the executive producer of the clubhouse podcast, and what we're about to talk about ain't no bear necessities my friend. Stay with me, but I'm not alone for this particular episode joining me in the co-host here is the lady of the house course, and I think she's going to be intrigued about what we're about to talk about.

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Home show number 451. We march on. Andy circus.

The master of motion capture. He likes the precious. That was a terrible golem I apologize.

Yeah, but he's directing and doing voice work for a brand new film available on Netflix. It's called Mowgli Legend of the Jungle. Ford we start this whole thing.

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So we love you Tanya and we're looking forward to seeing you again very very soon. This is based on the Rudger Rudyard Kipling classic story that we all know that Disney made into the jungle book twice. In my written review currently located at www.theclubhousepodcast.com.

That's our website. I try to make it as clear as possible. This is not a traditional telling of this tale as you may know it.

This thing has been circling around Hollywood for years. Warner Brothers actually made it. Netflix bought it.

And Andy circus has said from jump. This is a darker telling of this story. And it is.

There are aspects to this that I don't know that I've ever seen in another version of it. It's not. It's not happy go lucky.

It's not. There's no musical numbers in this. Cause roll changes a little bit in this.

But let me just run down this voice cast. Baguira the Panther. It's played by Christian Bale.

Ca the aforementioned Ca is Kate Blindshed. Cher Khan the antagonist is Benedict Cumberbatch. Which has me interested.

You've got Naomi Harris. Circus plays Balu. Jack Rainer who was featured in another film we're going to be reviewing very very soon.

Tom Hollander, Frida Pinto. Frida Pinto is actually in the film herself. She is one of the human actors.

Mowgli is played by a Rohan Chan. You probably haven't seen much of him. He's done a few things but these are relative newcomer.

And then you've got Matthew Reese is in this. The visual style of this takes a little bit of getting used to. And I'm hoping by talking about this now you'll be able to connect with it a little bit quicker than I did.

Cause this is a solid uh I think it's 145. 144. Yeah.

Right about 145. And he hasn't directed much. Circus hasn't had to because he's making all his money.

I know but he only did like that one or two things before this. But he's been around that. Oh yeah he's been yeah.

I mean he's been acting in all that. Yeah. So I want you guys to go back if you remember.

And this is going to be a weird comparison but I need you to roll with me for a minute. About 20 or so years ago there was a movie called Dragonheart. Yes.

With the Sean Connery. Yes. And remember that.

Yeah. Where he played a dragon. And what I found fascinating about that film is a very early in CGI's life.

But there were certain moments in that film where the dragon would do something. And I could see Connery's facial expressions in it. Yeah.

I remember how hard they worked on that. That is a very big player in this. With all of the cast members.

So when you know who's doing the voice because and again visually it takes a little getting used to because it's not Disney. You know. But it's well done.

So there are certain moments when Bajira is talking to Mogli and I'm like yeah that's Christian Bell. Or when Shere Khan is doing what he does and I'm like that's been at the Cumberbatch. So there's a little bit of an adjustment there.

Where has the way Disney does it? It's the other way around where it's the character to the actor. In this film, Circus makes a very conscious choice that it's actor to character.

I don't know if this is good for the little ones because this there is a level of violence to this film. There's also the subplot of Mogli being banished to the village of man. But he's not necessarily treated in the same wistful manner that he has in other tellings of this.

The cast system is in place. Well, it's not necessarily a cast system. But what I like the way they played it is, you know, he speaks to the animals, the animals speak to him, but he can't speak to man because he doesn't actually speak man's language.

So it's kind of neat the way that works. But again, there's definitely some very, very dark material here. Like at one point, I was like, oh, we're going there.

So this was the story before Tinkerbell's sprinkled pixie dust over it. Correct. I would say that this does stick a little bit closer to the source material because Roger Kipling was known for not known for pulling punches in his writing.

And for people that don't know, the jungle book story as it were is actually just one small part of a much larger collection of stories that Kipling wrote. So it's visually beautiful. I wouldn't say stunning because again, it took me a little bit to lock into the visual style of this, but it's better than God's of Egypt visually.

Can I say that? Don knows what I'm talking about. Yeah, yeah.

It didn't look like a really badly done video game. Okay. I mean, visually it works.

But I think that the darker side of it, and I say this in my written review that if you want to do this for family movie night, parents watch it first. Where's that review at? It's at www.theclubhousepodcast.com.

That's our website. Parents watch it first and then decide if this is going to be what? Where is the threshold that you can watch this with your kids?

Because there's some very intense sequences in this, especially when Mowgli is trying to become a member of the pack. The race scene is very intense in this. There's going to be a lot of people that are going to want to compare this to the Disney live action version.

Don't. Because there's going to be a lot of differences. Go into this just to enjoy it.

It's not a bad film by any stretch of the imagination, but it's not great. Is there a bit of thread that's going to be familiar if you are totally? Totally.

So it's not just a complete change. It's just a non-disnified version of a true story. Right.

You absolutely nailed it. So you would say this is even the plot itself is more to the book original book than just as I remember it. Yes.

I haven't read the original story in a long time. So you're not that old. So when you think a jungle book, don't take, yeah, this is going to be more adult.

Yeah, the spear. I would say more adult. It's just a little bit darker.

It's still a beautiful story, but it's definitely not. There's no musical numbers in this. No, Bayer, we're not skipping across the lake.

We're not climbing a tree. I mean, we are, but for completely different reasons. But I kind of like what they did with Ka in this one better.

Because she's more of like, she's still like, don't cross her. But she's seen more as a seer. She knows the past.

She knows the future. She knows the present. And so she tends to be very, very little, used very little, but she tends to be a more of a guide for Mowgli.

And I will also tell you there's a sequence with the monkey kingdom that gets it that's got a lot of violence to it. I mean, there's violence in this film. Oh, wow.

That's why it's running PG 13. Yeah. So and that would be realistic for something happening in the jungle.

Yeah. But again, like I said, I didn't like fall all over myself. I actually the lovely and talented Mrs.

Urban and I watched this together because I was able to get a screener copy of it and we watched it in the living room together over dinner. Because our vendors rock. They do very, very much so.

And she really enjoyed it. She said, I will tell you the end credits, the way they attach who's who before the credits role is kind of cool the way they do that. But my wife really enjoyed this.

I don't know that I enjoyed it as much as she did, but the lovely and talented Mrs. Urban does tend to have good taste. She does.

So in many things indeed, indeed. Anything else you guys want to ask for? We get to the bottom of this thing.

No. All right, let's do the final analysis. Now this is a Netflix thing, but it is going to get a theatrical run.

But we'll still do this a little bit differently because Netflix wants to get their stuff in theater so they can be just, you know, considered for awards because it's that time of year. Up to two questions. Question number one is, would I watch this film again if the answers know them were done here?

Since it is Netflix, the question becomes, where would I put this in my Netflix queue? So the higher, of course, the higher up in my queue, the more I would tend to put it or importance on it. Yeah.

All right. See if this weekend, would you see it in the weekend a month? That kind of thing.

Okay. So Rob. Yes, ma'am.

Would you see this again? I would. And where in your queue would you put this?

Well, I'm looking at my list of films that I've seen this year and at the time of this recording, I have seen right around 70 films. Okay. I would say this would be in the top two thirds of that.

Okay. With three weeks to go left in the year and probably another maybe dozen films for me to watch because we got a ton of them to watch. I would put this in the top two thirds.

So in your queue, you would probably put it in the watch it in the two, two, three weeks kind of thing. This would be one of those. Hey, let's see what's in the queue.

Oh, yeah, let's watch this. Okay. Like I wouldn't race to the TV.

Yeah. But if the lovely and talented Mrs. Irvin and I weren't in the mood to watch TV and we wanted to watch a movie and she said, hey, can we watch Mowgli?

I'd be like, yeah, okay. I wouldn't go out of my way, but if it's there, I'm there. It is Andy circus, the great Andy circus directing Mowgli Legend of the Jungle.

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