"Oh I see that's clever, Kaa is going to lower his body like a rope so Mowgli can climb out of the-" (Kaa proceeds to batter his fragile flat skull against the side of the well until he breaks through) "Ah okay or that."
Baloo's design is more bizarre when you realize that Bevanfield CAN draw normal looking bears, as seen in their goldilocks film, but actively chose not to.
@@maxmantell5009 That's being generous, considering that sloth bears still look bears. Hell, he looks less like a sloth bear than, say, a brown-coloured black bear, but even then... the bare torso is completely throwing it off.
@@mastermarkus5307 Grandmother Tiger from Little Zorro of the jungle is an elderly tigress with a lavender-coloured nose, light grey eyebrows and red cheeks and she wear light blue eyeglasses and a pink bonnet with a white collar
@@mastermarkus5307 Where are King Louie and the vultures in the Bevanfield jungle movie ????? And where are Shanti and Ranjan in the Bevanfield jungle movie ????? Are Shanti and Ranjan in the Bevanfield jungle movie ????? What is the role of the vultures Buzzie, Dizzy, Flaps and Ziggy in the Bevanfield jungle ???
Surprised you mentioned orangutans not being native to India, but looked over the fact Bagheera said he’d kill a ZEBRA in this one, which is even further off. In the book Bagheera killed a deer buck for Mowgli’s adoption into the pack, but for some reason this one changed it to a zebra.
He didn’t mention the fact that there are no anacondas on Borneo in his Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid review either, which is even a more messed up geographical error. Anacondas, which are native only to South America, don’t even belong to the same hemisphere where Borneo is located.
Yeah, that must be quite the trip for Bagheera to make considering that The Jungle Book is set in India and zebras live exclusively in central and southern Africa.
You know the part with Mowgli showing concern over Bagheera injury would've been a good character moment and heartwarming.....if it wasn't the fact this movie was made by Bevanfield.
@@ruggiebuggie3195 The Bevanfield ridiculizes Mowgli the tyrant by turning him into an old man with short white bobbed hairs and bald patches that he conceal with a long black wig to appearing younger than he actually is, and it removes nearly all the dark and dramatic tones that characterized the original Like two sisters written by Jean Jacques Annaud
@@ZER0O9 I have saw on the DeviantArt channel TemporaryWizard a parody of The Simpsons with Tabaqui Sixclaw and Akela the assassin as Chalmers and Skinner respectively and the two were having a lunch with steamed hams Akela call the hamburgers steamed hams
For artists, it's always important to keep practicing and gradually get better over time, but it's also important to look back to see how much you've improved.
As insomniac curing as this version is, I'm glad it has the scene of Kaa smashing the wall and Kaa hypnotizing and devouring the monkeys. That said, in the novel, Kaa is a Yellow Python, 100 feet long, 100 years old, and he CONSTRICTS the wall to pieces. He's also Mowgli's best friend and teacher and he makes Mowgli strong by making him wrestle with his coils and get used to the speed of a Snake's strike as an incoming attack, prepping Mowgli to be able to survive most of the opposition the jungle poses.
Okay is it just me or does Piglet the Rippers would be victim looks like she’s trying not to laugh? I keep re-watching it because it’s just so comical!
@@bearerofbadnews1375 The only thing I find sorta funny about this Bevanfield Jungle Book "movie" is the part where Kaa breaks Mowgli free and two random cobras appear out of nowhere and beg for Kaa to just take away Mowgli already. Oh, and the monkey's face and scream when Baloo showed up. XD
"Shere Khan, you pay us a great honor." I feel like this line was meant to be sarcastic, but asking Bevenfield actors to show any kind of emotion in their delivery is asking for too much
Its so weird that Tabaqui, despite having a different art style than the rest of the characters in this "movie", is also the only one here who doesn't look stoned.
2 years ago I was on seroquel/ativan for months and while I was recovering from my mental breakdown I was more alert and able to function than most of these characters!
@@dvader518 have you seen the South Asian Tarzan mockbusters? Adventures of Tarzan is the most famous of them all and you can watch it for free on Shemaroo’s RU-vid channel.
I knew someone who actually had this tape when I was a kid. I even watched it one time - the key word here being one time. I didn’t remember it until a couple of weeks ago and when I saw it was from Bevanfield, I hoped that meant you would cover it someday. Thanks for suffering for us again, Phelous!
I sort of recognize one of the voice actors playing the wolves, but I wouldn't know any names. But Mowgli clearly sounds like he's voiced by Susan Sheridan, aka Princess Eilonwy from The Black Cauldron. Also, while Disney gave us the Bare Necessities, I guess Bevanfield to you gave the bare minimum.
Phelous in a trained professional and can handle the effects, but ordinary viewers need to be aware that Bevanfield videos are extremely potent sedatives and must be taken in moderation!
You'd think after so many Goodtimes, Dingo, and Goldenfilm movies Phelous would develop an imunity to these films. Then Bevanfield comes along to break him down.
@@Seanatonin Bohbot made a film called the Jungle Book: Riki Tiki Tavi to the rescue. It’s basically a rather cruddy crossover between characters created by Rudyard Kipling!
"It's the Bore Necessities, it'll drive you all into a coma, And make you wonder if I'll give you blight. I mean the Bore Necessities, this toon ain't good as the rest of these, But it will make you all question your life!"
99% sure Susan Sheridan did the voice of Mowgli in this. She voiced a lot of my favourite cartoons I watched as a kid and her voice work is very distinctive
Oh yeah that's 100% Susan. Tabaki, Baloo and Bagheera also sound very familiar but annoyingly I'm struggling to place them. That said, Tabaki and the monkeys give me strong Jimmy Hibbert vibes and since these two voice actors worked together a lot throughout the 90s it wouldn't surprise me if it was indeed him.
@@Sam-wv4fz It might not be, but the voice made me think of him too. So much so I came to the comments just to see if anyone else had thought that or it was just me! Given the casts Bevenfield have had previously, though, I guess it's not impossible it is him. In '92 might have been he wasn't considered quite big enough a name to merit pushing it...?
I think the real reason why this didn't make it to DVD is because everybody returned the VHS to stores because the film lied that it had "superb animation"
Disney Baloo: Look for the Bare Necessities the simple bare necessities forget about your worries and your strife. Bevanfield Baloo: Kill me I’m in constant pain.
Can't believe I'm saying this but I agree, the Dingo bears have this rather derpy look to them that makes them sliiiiightly cute. For Dingo. But Baloo here looks like an unholy mutation between a bear, a gorilla, Peter Griffin and Jabba the Hutt. XD
@@cintronproductions9430 Anastasia Romanov in the episode Shere Khan in hospital The tiger cub Shere Khan become disable after falling in a ravine and walk on crutches
That’s because they were both voiced by Sterling Holloway, who had been a regular voice actor at Disney for many years due to his distinct voice. It’s important to remember that Holloway debuted as Disney’s Winnie the Pooh only a year before the Jungle Book was released, and Disney couldn’t have known at the time that the former would become the juggernaut of a franchise it is today, leading to the cliché “Kaa is evil Pooh” jokes, which I think is a disservice to Holloway, as he made many of his characters sound distinct despite having the same voice thanks to subtle nuances in his delivery and inflections in each role, with Kaa having a distinct snake-like lisp coupled with his playfully sinister demeanor, compared to the naïve, sweet-natured and scattered-brained Pooh.
REALLY struggling mentally today, and this was exactly what I needed to make me laugh. These terribly animated and voiced 'films' deserve to have the absolute crap ripped out of them, and you, sir, are the elite. Thank you for always bringing quality reviews to things which, ironically, have zero quality.
Funny thing about that, theirs a mature comic book series called Fables, which the permise is fairy tale charcters are exile from there homelands and live in the real world. This also includes the jungle book charcters. And in one of the chapters it had King Louie in them, but keep in mind these charcters are suppose to be there literary counterparts not the Disney ones where Louie did not exist so he was completely out of place in that universe. Aparently the writer of the comic was going by old memories and forgot and didn’t realize Louie was not in the orignal Jungle Book.
@@Seanatonin Bevanfield ridiculizes Mowgli the tyrant by turning him into an old man with short white hairs that try to conceal his old age with a long black wig
@@norbertovalle7928 Akela the assassin as Skinner and Tabaqui Sixclaw as Chalmers are having steamed hams for lunch, but Tabaqui initally believed they were having steamed clams 🦪🦪🦪🦪🍔🍔🍔🍔🍔🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺
I’m not sure if I’m completely dead inside or if I have major masochistic tendencies, I actually look forward to seeing a Bevanfield episode. I don’t know what it is about them that makes me love them so much!
If you want a Jungle Book adaptation that is both well-made and close to the book, try the Soviet version. It has some changes (Bagheera is female, Mowgli's life in the human village is omitted, there is an entire temple scene with a cobra that wasn't in the books, at least in the version I've read), but it's fairly close to the source material othervise and is really enjoyable to watch, with stylish animation and great voice acting. I remember loving it as a kid, and would probably enjoy it as an adult too.
Considering these Bevanfield guys were able to work with Christopher Lee, you'd think they'd have gotten him to play Shere Khan or Bagheera for this one. Also, does this mean we're going to be seeing reviews for a certain other couple studios' adaptations of the Jungle Book?
Surely yes! We’ll all be waiting for Phelous to review the (rather obscure) 26-episode South Korean Jungle Book tv show that predated DQ’s Jungle Book by about 3 years. It featured Saro, who is basically a very pale Mowgli in all but name.
Nice to know right off the bat that Turkey has their own version of "Brightspark Entertainment". Good point about Disney shying away from the doofy sidekick for once, too. Every single character looks straight out of a drugs PSA, which is amazing considering they're animals. And wow, Bevanfield, the ONE time you decide to actually draw DETAILS in a character's face, you end up with Baloo. Damned if you try, damned if you don't.
@@skootergirl22 Swartt Van Helsing is the ferret hunter of man-eating wolves created by Brian Jacques Do you know the heroic wolf-hunting ferret Swartt Van Helsing ???
This movie looks like something you would see edited into a Creepypasta Video. Just take all the shots of the weird characters looking at the audience and add scary music, and you're pretty much done.
Oh God Mowgli is voiced by the late Susan Sheridan. She was best known in the UK for voicing the character Noddy in ‘Noddy’s Toyland Adventures’. Her Mowgli voice is the same as her Noddy voice. She also voiced one of the sisters in the Bevanfield Beauty and the Beast😮
Disney created one of the most loveable characters of all time with their version of Baloo Bevanfield created one of the most loathsome characters of all time with their version of Baloo
All these years later and man, I'm still enjoying your reviews tremendously. Both these animated flicks as well as your collaborations with Sad Panda. Keep it up man, you own this style of reviewing and humour!
Imagine if Bevanfield attempted to create their own version of Tailspin with these characters. I imagine it would be the perfect thing to put on at night to help you fall asleep.
I am gonna take a wild guess with Baloo's design and say that the animators probably thought he was a gorilla until someone told them he was actually a bear, so they had to rush things up and we ended up with this abomination of a design.
lol this bevanfield film felt like it was actually trying to rip off dingo. random laughs, the bird fight, the snakes dancing. not the bevanfield gworls jocking dingo...
Actually good book-accurate adaptation is Maugli, the Russian animated adaptation from the 70s. The animation and character designs are amazing, the music is gorgeous, and the pacing is actually well done. Just avoid the version that got an English dub in the 80s because that one removed all the music and went late 80s synthpop for some reason
I love how they try to make it closer to the book in some ways, but then Bagheera kills a ZEBRA for the wolves. You should check out "Shonen Mowgli" (80s Jungle Book anime) sometime, it has a lot of the animation models as Mondo World later used them. I'm not sure if it's the same studio, though, as Shonen Mowgli is actually pretty good; I wonder if Mondo World just traced their work. Anyway, it has one of the funniest explanations for the death of Mowgli's parents: Bagheera tries to lead them to their lost child and they're so scared by this big panther suddenly appearing that they step backwards and fall off a cliff.
No, there's actually a sad secret behind these animation models: The japanese animators from Nippon were kidnapped / forced into animating these models for the Korean studios Mondo employed.
@@TheJRWH Robin Hood - the Boyhood Adventures wasn’t only animated by Tatsunoko Pro, one of the all time anime studio greats, but also part-commissioned by Mondo.
Mowgli: Baloo, please describe Bevanfield's animation style. Baloo: they do only the bare necessities, not more Mowgli: actually, I think this answer gives them too much credit Bagheera: be diamonnnnnds! Mowgli: we're talking about Bevanfield, not Dingo Bagheera: sorry. I always wanted to say that
Regarding the mystery voice cast, the person who voices Mowgli sounds quite like the late actress, Susan Sheridan who voiced main characters in various kids TV shows like Noddy’s Toyland Adventures and Moomin. It doesn’t sound exactly the same as her usual work but that could be rubbish direction and sound editing (though that laugh after escaping the monkeys sounded exactly like Noddy’s laugh in the UK version of the show).
Tabaqui here looks like a bootleg Wile E. Coyote, which is funny because the Chuck Jones version straight up made him look like just a quadrupedal Wile E. Coyote XD
Looking at all that makes me really want to see you review Soviet adaptation of "Jungle Book", then "The Scarlet Flower" (a slavic retelling of "Beauty and the Beast") or their take on "Alice in Wonderland" and other cartoons done by Soviets. It's a microcosmos of its own.
Old Man: "But I will not include Soviet Beauty's father in my Beauty's Fathers Squad, because the Caspian Sea (largest lake) and Lake Baikal (deepest lake) make the Soviet Union completely useless now."
one thing i've noticed with alot of these movies made to cash-in on Disney and similar is that they're often more true to the original text of the story, but the fact that they come across as really dull while the Disney versions are still beloved despite their changes and legitimate flaws shows that just being truer-to-text doesn't necessarily make it better than one that isn't. (i read a reprint of the original Jungle Book for the first time in years last summer and still remember most of the details and yeah, Bevanfield actually DID get most of the details; doesn't make the movie good, though) (incidentally, i sincerely recommend _The White Seal_ also by Kipling, another of the Jungle Book stories; i read it in detail for the first time at the same time as the original last year and it easily became one of my favorites :) )
I'll say this much, the Jungle Book Anime looks better than this. and just in case nobody knows yes the Jungle Book had an anime adaptian in 1989 called "Jungle Book Shonen Mowgli."
A lot of the classic tales had an anime adaptation: Peter Pan, Thumbelina, Le Petit Prince... Many are pretty much forgotten today, which makes me consider uploading them, someday. Not all World Masterpiece Theater anime have been acclaimed equally. In fact, I'd say they are of variable quality, from amazing to near death experience boring (Kojika Monogatari aka "The Yearling" is a WMT anime Phelous reviewed long ago, and I don't doubt he'd rather rewatch all Bevanfield crap over that 😂)
@@nozoto The anime adaptian of TJB may be forgotten today, but i'm still sure that if people knew about it they would prefer to watch that instead of this train wreck of an animated film.
One thing that bothers me: how come Dingo Pictures never made their own Jungle Book? I mean, they technically have all the assets they need: the black panther could be Bagheera, that bookworm snake from Der Koenig der Tiere could be Kaa, Mowgli could be portrayed by Tarzan (in his pre-teens, of course), X INTERRUPTING BEAR is obviously Baloo. Last, but not least, redraw black panther sprites to make Shere Khan and you're golden. Oh, and I'm sure we all agree that instead of Tabaqui there should be Wabuu. It's not a true to heart Dingo movie if it doesn't include that cheeky raccoon.
Dingo couldn’t make a jungle book movie because JetLag productions already made one years earlier. Instead, it did a short Tarzan ripoff movie with the titular hero and Linda adopting a Boy stand in at the end!
I gotta be honest Phelous, I thought that part where Shere Khan was making stupid noises and looping animation at the wolf's den was your doing. We've seen and heard some pretty stupid shit from Bevanfield thus far, but I'm reminded of an old line from (one of) your Beauty & The Beast reviews: "Is that supposed to be scary?!"
I suppose we should feel grateful, though only so much, that this is Bevanfield and not Dingo, because if this were a Dingo production, Bagheera would be obsessed with DIAMONDS, and Baloo would be a constant INTERRUPTING BEAR...or, whatever bear-strosity he's supposed to be in this.
One minute Phelous is pointing out the stretched film pacing and animation mistakes. And then it all comes to a complete stop as he discusses the crime against nature of Baloo's design. Hilariously informative. ^^
Hey, Phelous, I don't normally comment all the time on your videos but just know, man, I fricking love you. I've been watching your Silent Hill, Foodfight, Puss 'n Boots, & Gingerdead Man videos so much that I can just say the entire episodes word for word, your comedy & intellect in noticing random things in movies & manage to make a great joke out of obscure things really makes me always come back to your awesome antics. Thank you so much for existing, Phelan, I wouldn't even be able to sleep without your videos too because they're so comforting! Your voice & jokes are what keeps me laughing some days when my situations are very grim to say the least. Keep doing what you do, brother, much love. 😊🤩
Old Man Snake: 🎵 "Trust in MEEE! Just in MEEE!." Wabuu: "Don't eat Mowgli, you idiot! I need him to make red flower." Old Man: "I didn't know you like roses. I can get you one."
Shere Khan is ugly (actually, to be fair, everyone is ugly when he's animated by Bevanfield. Anyway,) that means he should be thrown into the red flower. He belongs into a great, big RED FLOWAAAH
I know they didn't list the voice cast, but I'm convinced Baloo is voiced by Michael Hordern who also voiced Monsieur Du Bois in Bevanfield's Beauty and the Beast.
That was kinda the thing in the original novel too though. He was lame legged, and his goal to kill Mowgli wasn't exactly to snatch the boy himself, but rather drive the other wolves into doing it because Khan couldn't hope to take Mowgli while he was near either Bagheera, Baloo or his Wolf-Brothers.
Funny you mention watching this to fall asleep to as that's how I use your videos. Not a negative, really a huge positive to me. Interesting enough to keep my mind from wandering but lacking excessive energy to keep me from falling asleep. Honestly thank you so much for the improvements to my rest you have facilitated, and I'm sure it's great for your watchtime too (:
