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Jim Cummings at this point should narrate the audiobook version of the Jungle Book. That way he can complete the job of voicing every character in this story.
Jim Cummings was ALSO Colonel Hathi in Jungle Book 2, so he’s had double Jungle Book elephant duty. Did not know he was Baloo in the studio short and they couldn’t just get John Goodman back
King Louie played by Christopher Walken was my favorite character in The 2016 Jungle Book Disney Remake. He, Bill Murray, and Idris Elba are AMAZING as King Louie, Baloo, and Shere Khan. In fact The 2016 Jungle Book Remake is MY FAVORITE OF THE DISNEY REMAKES
Yeah this mistake was made in the “Fables” comics, the premise was about Fairy tale characters living in our world as refugees and among them were characters from the jungle book. But these characters are supposed to be of there original stories, but King Louie still ended up there despite not being in the original Jungle book. Even the author of the comics had admitted this mistake.
This version of Baloo looks more like he should be on the box of some store-brand cereal than in this story. And holy shit I legit thought that was a "early credits" joke at first. Just...wow, Golden Films. More like Pyrite Films...
1:06 Funny enough, Jim Cummings has also played Disney’s Baloo in theme park shows & in the "Once Upon a Studio" short. He was positively giddy about it on his podcast.
I remember reading a rumor years ago about him voicing Baloo in Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep back when it was rumored to have a Jungle Book world (before it got scrapped) so, hey, good for him for finally doing that!
I didn't realize it was Jim in Once Upon a Studio. His bit is rather short, and in Jungle Book 2, he was voiced by John Goodman, so I assumed it was him again.
Jim is everywhere. He was even a voice actor in my dreams once. He didn’t want any money. He just doesn’t want Steve Blum to have the longest IMDB credits.
At first I didn’t know who that is but then I was like ”oh wait, it’s the guy who voices Grunt in Mass Effect”. He seems to be in pretty much everything
I love the brilliant foreshadowing in this adaptation; they set up in the beginning that Shere Kahn is too lazy to bother hunting Mowgli, which pays off at the end when he never appears again because it was probably still too hot.
I've literally waited for years to see you cover this one, because I actually saw it as a kid. I remember being... very confused at the bipedal animals, the ginger mowgli, the awkward pauses and movement of the characters, and the abrupt ending.
The golden films/Daewon version (yep, Daewon of Eon Kid fame!) might’ve been made first as just a pilot for a series which was likely scrapped before it was even released.
Contrary to what IMDb says, Mowgli/Pinocchio was voiced by Pat Musick. I once tried to watch her whole filmography. Her voice reminded me of a Golden Film voice and that was why. If you compare Mowgli's voice to Harold Frumpkin from the Rugrats, they will be almost indistinguishable!
@@SlapstickGenius23 No. Perhaps the only Golden Film with Jeannie Elias is Tom Thumb meets Thumbelina. It's the only movie where I can confirm she voiced some characters. IMDb's credits are usually wrong, even though I can't blame them since Golden Films usually have no credits, and Elias and Musick's voice are similar to some degree. My advice is not to follow made-up credits and trust our ears. Of course, one has to be a fanatic of american voice acting in order to recognize these voices.
Jim Cummings just sounds like he's announcing his lines when he's voicing Baloo. I keep expecting to hear him say "Coming up next: Pokemon, on the Kids WB!"
The more I see these knock offs, the more I have the urge to collect and preserve them. Surprised Phelan last shred of sanity hasn’t left yet with how many of these he has done.
@@tomforge614 Well I prefer the memetic status of these manual mockbusters over short ‘animated’ movies with AI overuse+misuse. Even though I do think AI can be used both properly and well, even for a Mockbuster adaptation of a public domain story.
Bird: “they’re taking him to the city” Wolves: “oh, that’s not to bad, they’re taking him back to the other humans”. Bird: “And by that I mean the creepy abandoned city with giant snakes” Wolves: “WHY WOULD YOU PHRASE IT THAT WAY?!”
This raises way too many questions. 1. Why did they make Mowgli white? 2. Why do the animals stand and walk on two legs? 3. Why does Shere Khan have an eye patch like a pirate? 4. Why does Baloo have a collar, a bow tie and glasses? 5. Why don’t they have a final confrontation between Mowgli and Shere Khan? 6. Why don’t we see Mowgli returning to human civilization? What, were they saving that for the sequel they’d never make? 7. Why did Jim Cummings say yes to this crap? 8. WHY AM I WATCHING THIS GOLDEN FILMS TRASH?!? 9. WHY? WHY? WHY?
@@slenders1ckn3ss The only reason Doc Venture won't let them back on is that their experiment in child creation was more successful than his attempts, and Doc had a headstart from stealing all his dad's stuff.
@@ThePreciseClimber Nah, it's only okay if the original characters were white. Even if the original characters lived in a European country during medieval times. Speaking of which, I heard that Disney's Snow White... never mind.
Keep in mind that Golden Films has had the palest Mowgli design of any animated Jungle Book adaptation until a South Korean kids’ show version showed up in 2007. Jungle King Saro, a loose jungle book adaptation, has the titular boy (a rebadged Mowgli) being paler than the golden films one. He’s also ginger haired (though more brownish than truly ginger) as well.
Can't wait to see you do the North Korean-Italian Collab for this book (and crossovers). Ever since you hinted at it during a past Christmas Special. Paw lasers galore!
@@EssexAggiegrad2011 It is. Phelous did one of the crossover sequels for this series several years ago. The Christmas special had characters from the series...and several others the two companies did together. I honestly want to want to watch one of the "Five Ancient Heroes" episodes being reviewed. That had David, Samson, Herakles/Hercules...and a Ninja "Dragon" Turtle. No...really. A Bootleg Zones Tier Ninja Turtle cheap ripoff.
As an ace attorney fan, I definitely enjoyed those edits. and Kath Soucie wolf must have advised Baloo to wear those rounded glasses so as not to scare poor red-headed Mowgli.
@@themadkingatmey I watched this short a long time ago. That voice sounded more like Pat Musick than Kath Soucie. IMDb is plain wrong, even though I can't blame them since there are no credits.
Golden Films writer 1: What’s more family friendly? A fight with happy monkeys or a man eating tiger? Writer 2: Good heavens no! We can’t let children see such violent creatures like tigers! Writer 1: Well it looks like we’ve got our ending.
I actually grew up with this version alongside the Disney one. No joke, we would actually see this every time we visit our grandparents' house. To this day, this remains as the only Golden Films release I've ever seen in its entirety, and even then, I had the same reaction as Phelous here with how this thing ends.
This feels more like one and a half episodes of a tv series that thankfully never happened. The other Golden Films outputs at least put on the pretense of being movies.
@@mightyfilm I think George of the Jungle is based on an old comic strip. That's probably why there was eventually a really bad George of the Jungle cartoon on Cartoon Network. That had nothing to do with the Disney movie, since it's a different studio.
@@shwahgamer George of the Jungle was a 1960's cartoon, sadly the last one Jay Ward studios produced. It was reran on ABC about a year or so before the movie to gain interest. And the topper is, the movie wasn't even intended as a George of the Jungle movie, but rather a generic Tarzan parody that eventually evolved into George due to Disney having the rights to make a movie anyway. Very confusing, huh? My theory is that they were trying to drum up interest in Tarzan just before their animated adaption.
@@shwahgamer the cruddy Canadian George of the jungle cartoon got a worse second season which has made the first season look alright. Sure, the first season was flawed and in need of improvement, but the second season was where all things totally went downhill!
From the 3 Jungle Book Reviews the first with Bevanfield was the best. It has a callback to old suprised Monkey meme from Phelous and alone for this that movie was it worth it.
How did this Baloo get his detatched collar, bowtie and glasses if he's just one of the jungle animals, did he eat some jungle adventurer who was wearing those?
I know it was (probably) just for the paycheck, but getting recognizable voices, especially Jim Cummings, elevates any work in my eyes, at least to some degree. I can't even fully disregard anything that has Cam Clarke in it.
The ending suggests the budget ran out in the middle of production! Given how bad a lot of the adaptations of The Jungle Book that Phelous reviewed were; at least those had a resolution!
Seeing Shere Khan and Baloo's designs, as well as making just about everyone bipedal makes me think they were tempting fate by trying to cash-in on TaleSpin. Also, at 4:42 - BAGHEERA'S...HANDS. WHAT IS WITH THE HANDS.
Just like how Rudyard Kipling imagined it when writing down the Mowgli Stories in the Jungle Book Mondo TV Wolves, A Shere Khan who looks like a rejected TMNT character and a Baloo who's an escapee from the set of whatever Hanna Barbera cartoon he's from.
I do wonder...will Phelous have a look at the Japanese/Italian/Canadian anime Jungle Book series from 1991 that started the whole "Mondoverse"? Aside from the 1994 film, it's probably my favorite adaptation of The Jungle Book, despite the *absolutely monstrous and gargantuan amount of North Korean-animated garbage* that was produced afterwards thanks to Mondo productions, just like that "Christmas in New York" abomination that Phelous reviewed a while ago.
Ahh, the jungle book anime by Nippon animation (the studio behind a few Sinbad adaptations world masterpiece theatre)! It’s been really popular in India for a while thanks to having unexpectedly good Malayalam and Hindi dubs.
I mean, Jetlag Productions (frequent collaborators of Goodtimes) did make The New Adventures of He-Man. Golden Films are their inferior counterpart as far as Goodtimes's collaborators go, so maybe they tried to do the same thing but then went "Naaahhh...."
This is my favorite day of the week, it's Friday and a new Phelous video Another deep dive into The Jungle Book, by our good old friends at Golden Films
"Do you...really want...THAT?!" Poor doofy-looking Mowgli there:):) And he's CARL from 'As Told by Ginger'...I actually legit wish Carl looked like him! It'd be a big improvement! Once all of the Jungle Book cartoons have been done, there's still the Golden Films Cinderella! The audio where the music gets too loud to hear the dialogue, big-Barbie-hair Cinderella, Jughead stepsisters, Mr. Weatherbee stepmother, and a tiny Fairy Godmother who's way too tubby to be able to fly with her little wings;)
Jim Cummings also voiced Bagheera in the present-day cut scenes for three Jungle Cubs VHS volumes, where he also voiced Kaa, Hathi, and Louie. He also provided the panther's singing voice for the video game The Jungle Book Groove Party (also based on the Disney version).
I feel bad for complaining about the weird anatomy of the Goodtimes version The animal anatomy here is even worse, especially on Shere Khan, and Mowgli just looks like hes only one small movement away from dislocating his joints Everyone here looks like their bones would make cracking noises whenever they move
I was going to say that these are the worst Jungle Book character designs, but then I remembered that Bevanfield Baloo exists. There's too much genuine competition!
"Look for the, Golden nesecities! Those Golden Films nesecities! Forget about the quality of film! I mean the Golden nesecities those Golden films nesecites, they help you make some cash"🎵
The most unique version of Shere Khan didn't even get to do anything 🤨, but at least Kaa got to be the hero again and the main one as the monkeys was the main villain of this movie... So at least there's that 😅
Jim Cummings has also voiced the Disney Baloo in the PS1/PS2 DDR rip-off The Jungle Book: Groove Party, and I shit you not, it's the exact same voice regardless of which Baloo we're talking about.
Ok you watched many films from these ripoff type of companies like Dingo and Beavenfield but at the very least they finish their crappy stories. This is Golden Films second time having a story that just ends, like their Anastasia film but their Jungle Book adaptation is the worst offender. My theory is that Golden Film for years were working on their greatest movie in their catalog, Hunchback of Notre Dame. So sadly, many of their other projects suffered greatly as all their effort was to come up with an ending that will eclipse the stupid Disney one. Making the Hunchback handsome is true cinema.
I always loved Jim Cummings being used to voice so many characters in one thing. In Swat Kats it became a game for me to see if he could go an episode without talking to himself. I don't think it happened once. Oh lord. Sher Kahn's mouth is drawn and animated in such a way it makes it look like he has no teeth. Lot of characters seem drawn that way but him in particular looks like he should be talking like Topsy from King of the Hill.
Someone needs to cobble together a thing of every Jungle Book character voiced by Jim Cummings and try to make it a coherent story. I'd try it myself, but I'm not masochistic enough.
