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Goodtimes always has this weird knack for having *almost* good character designs that are then ruined by having the cheapest animation imaginable. Still, cheap hand drawn animation has a charm to it that cheap CGI doesn't, so that's something I guess.
So Mowgli stayed with the humans long enough to learn their language, but they never got around to giving him some proper clothes? Guess they really didn't care about him all that much.
In the original story, they shunned Mowgli because they saw him communicate with animals in their own language, so they thought he was some kind of demon. So Mowgli was like "Wow, fuck you guys, I saved your village and this is how you thank me?" and he just goes back to the jungle.
The edits to make it seem the Wolf parents wanted to kill/eat the baby is the kind of Phelan comedy that always brings a much needed chuckle to my chest! XD
3:39 So, for those who don’t know, Shere Khan is actually canonically lame in the original books. Lame as in one of his paws is crippled, not at in he’s pathetic. That’s part of why he doesn’t just kill Mowgli when he’s a baby and decides to do it with politics. Wanted to clear that up for those who thought they were constantly calling Khan lame as in pathetic, which isn’t the correct term
16:50 Whoa whoa whoa! Was he supposed to say he’s never been *prouder* of one of his sons, or did he actually mean that he’s never been proud of any of them?! “Father of the year!”
Huh, I could have sworn you’ve done this one already! Anyway, this is the only Goodtimes knockoff that actually managed to fool my parents into buying it for me, I vividly remember being traumatized by Kaa eating the monkeys lmao
The Bevanfields Junglebook review also has dopey brown Balou and Mowgli on the thumbnail. I'm assuming that's why I also thought this was a reupload first
I recall that in the Disney one, fire also wasn't Mowgli's idea. He didn't know how to make it, and instead used it after a tree caught fire from being struck by lightning. It was the vultures who told him Shere Khan was afraid of fire. (Hope I spelled that right.) But they didn't try to claim he was "wise" for doing it.
Gotta love the depictions of Indian people. Pale skin, largely Muslim garb but they're also wearing Sikh turbans, the only important woman AND man have bindi...
This does stay pretty close to volume one of the book, which is a plus. I think it's implied in the books that the village woman wasn't Mowgli's birth mother, though - she just lost her kid to the jungle many years ago, and assumed Mowgli to be his reincarnation or something. Also, I believe the book ended with him not returning to the old pack, but starting his own with his wolf siblings (there was also a last-minute remark about him re-joining the humans and scoring himself a wife eventually). Still, out of all the versions, the Russian one is my favourite, despite the changes to the source material. It just has so much style.
They don't have time to animated all , buldeo should appear and try to use tiger dead body , and akela atack him because Mowgli want , and there isn't a part when people chase him out of village.
I actually found this one on DVD at a hardware store of all things. Bundled with Goodtimes' Beauty and the Beast and Snow White as well. Also Alice in Wonderland...you'd think it'd be the Goodtimes version like the other three 'movies', but no. It's the Burbank version for some reason. Go figure!
That was... something. Of course, made for kids, but skinning the bad guy and wearing his hide, face and all. Definitely wasn't expecting that. In some of the Disney adaptations, we got dark, but it was shown in silhouette, like what happened to Scar, Clayton, and Gaston falling into the abyss, etc. Just wow.
@@ZC-Infinity it’s better than bevanfield and I don’t personally like the 1967 Disney movie (the music in the Disney movie is great except for the Beatles vultures, but the plot is super boring, the 2017 live action is better. ) Goodtimes is no better than Dingo. Dingo is so bad it’s good due to Dingo understanding how bad their catalog is but goodtimes and bevanfield are touching the prickly pear on the paw
AAAAAAAAH now I can't unsee it, LMAO. Also another thing I can't unsee is that the parent wolves are just Fox from The Animals of Farthing Wood but colored differently. XD
@@cintronproductions9430 Mowgli in the GoodTimes movie also looks a bit like Toei’s Wolf Boy Ken. Both are boys raised by wolves and have multiple adventures.
@jlev1028 But the book was a collection of different stories, not just Mowgli's story. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is one of the many other short stories included in The Jungle Book.
I'm glad there's movies that have Kaa as a protagonist like the books i wish they all did, could you imagine Kaa eating king Louie that would be hilarious
@@omoidashu yeeess it is a very beautiful animation, honestly a lot of Soviet Union cartoons are awesome with a very inspired and masterful art direction
Really says something to how much the Disney Animated Canon has influence over the stories it adapts for a cheap cash in movie from 20-30 years later IS considered a cheap cash in. I'm sure this just so happened to be when Disney rereleased it to VHS or something. After all, there's so many other Jungle Book adaptions out there, but only ONE gave us the glory that is Talespin.
@@Keznen That's probably the Disney influence. Years ago, I saw some Burger King toy or something that was from a Jungle Book adaption I didn't know existed, and thought it was a cheapy DTV. Turns out, it was a legitimate TV series. Just one that didn't air on American Television. Or if it did, some obscure channel. I wound up getting a couple episodes on a compilation DVD, but never got around to watching them.
@@mightyfilm Mowgli pronounced "moh-glee" had been around longer than Disney tho. The old Sabu movie used it. then again, Disney influence is like a virus or something so your point still stands. Oh, what adaption was it? Was it animated? Was it the anime? That weird CG one? Now I'm curious.
@@alexandragutierrez393 The CGI one. I honestly don't blame Disney so much for their movies being the dominant adaptions, so much as it's far easier and lazier to reference that version than the originals. Of all things, a Sesame Street special was the one that had to point out that the Tweedles weren't in Alice in Wonderland, but the follow up.
Wow.... Im actually impressed! Whoed thunk this from Goodtimes of all places? For such a low quality production, its surprisingly very book accurate, right down to the caste issue! The Jungle Book is one of my top loved books so im very appreciative of the details
Even funnier, said mouse is a mouse! XD Tell that to the O'Malley cats! Jokes aside, Kaa really needs this kind of justice. Everywhere we search his name, it's flooded with hypno pics one after the other! I can't stand it!
Well, Disney made Kaa a bad guy because "SNAKES BAD!" pretty much :P Also Kaa going after the monkey because he's told they insulted him is part of the original story as well. That is pretty much his "character flaw" that he has some ego and can be manipulated by it.
9:28 So living in trees apparently don’t count as living in the jungle, despite the fact that the trees are rooted in the jungle floor, the monkeys live in ruins not in the trees, there’s a scene showing them having a friendly conversation with a Kite (a bird) that is above even the trees and yet they weren’t treated as an enemy, and Bagheera was introduced lying down in a tree that I assume he also sometimes sleeps in because he’s a panther. Bagheera’s lawyer career wasn’t a very long one
*The following are the musings of a Salty SEAGULL named EARL who just shows up in my posts whenever he feels like it!* [EARL the Salty SEAGULL:] "It's always fun to ride the cash-in coaster with Phelous & hopefully OLD MAN!" 0:27 - "At least Goodtimes doesn't make you fall asleep or terrify you with its interpretation of what a BEAR looks like!" 8:29 - "Goodtimes Mogwi's design looks a little feminine with those lips & that hair!" 11:29 - "Well it is kinda hilarious when you think about!" 12:23 - "Now that is pure dark comedy right there!" 12:46 - "Goodtimes Tailspin unfortunately was never produced as their lawyers explained to them that Tailspin wasn't in the public domain unlike the Jungle Book so only this proof of concept survived (they wanted to explain why Mogwi wasn't in the show)!" 13:28 - *SEAGULL Laugh* "Stupid Surprise Goodtimes Bagera!" 15:47 - "Ah, the OLD MAN cometh to teach Goodtimes Mogwi some manners or burn him at the stake which ever one comes first!" 15:55 - "Okay, he'll teach Mogwi how to respect his elders!" 16:17 - *SEAGULL Laugh* "Stupid Surprised Goodtimes Sher Kahn!" 16:34 - "Best Adaptation! 10 outa 10! Seriously GOODTIMES had the BALLz to go DARK & I love em for it!" 18:19 - "We all know it was all part of the OLD MAN's plan to have Mogwi kill Sher Kahn and wear his pelt so OLD MAN can make bank discovering the Indian Tarzan, Mogwi!"
0:21 Yeah, maybe, but is there any Playstation advertising via monkey death? That's the most important part of the story! They better not leave it out!
Surprised to you didn’t bring up Tabaqui’s awful design in this. They call him a jackal but he looks more like a cheetah who, halfway through his birth, remembered he was actually a jackal. Fitting lackey for a “lame old tiger” I s’pose.
i'm a little disappointed that they just used "nonsense" when Mowgli disagrees with Buldeo instead of borrowing "cobwebs and moontalk" from the book. would've been funnier :P
15:20 - 15:28 The child spent his formative years living like an animal and yet supposedly there is a class of servant folk even lower in the hierarchy than Mowgli? How does this society work?
Maybe I’m just partial to Chuck Jones’s animation style, but that’s my favorite Jungle Book adaptation I’ve seen thus far. It’s even narrated by Cricket Crocket!
And additionally, why do so many of them keep calling their adaptations "The Jungle Book" despite the original book (and its sequel) being a collection of several different short stories?
If anyone wants to check out the soviet animated adaptation of Mowgli, then I recommend watching the original dub with english subs. The american dub, for whatever reason, cut out a bunch of scenes and replaced the original orchestral score with far inferior synth music.
I grew up watching this version! As a kid I always thought it was Disney, but then after watching their version I realized I didn’t remember any of it. Took me years to find out that it was GoodTimes.
What’s interesting is that Jim Cummings who voiced Baloo in this Goodtimes adaptation of The Jungle Book would voice Baloo years later in Once Upon a Studio
Love how it's against the jungle law to hunt humans when I'm pretty sure the humans wouldn't extend the same courtesy to the animals... I vote Shere Khan!
Well alright! Nice to have some Good Times right before a shift. But seeing the wolves reminded me that loser One Eye existed and that made the times BAD again!
I'm almost surprised at this point that you haven't stumbled across 'The Jungle Book: An Animated Classic' (Which I'm 80% sure is a movie length cut of an anime or an anime movie from the series 'The Jungle Book: The Adventures of Mowgli (1989)', I had a VHS of it as a kid and always thought it was from a TV series I'd never seen. The cover has Mowgli holding a red panda, which always stood out to me as being really different as a little kid, it was the only red panda I'd ever seen for a long time!
