Going back to the Planning & Effort section of this week’s column, every scene in The Jungle Book seems to have been constructed with 3D in mind, and that fact is proven when you take your glasses off during a screening (as I did numerous times, to test). Other than that, the brightness is fantastic. I’d give this a perfect 5, but one stretch during the story’s final confrontation (no spoilers) gets way too dark, hiding the imagery. And during the day, the sun-drenched scenery of Mowgli’s jungle home has an extra bit of artificial enhancement to really compensate for the dark glasses one has to wear in a 3D screening. Yet, even in the dark of night, Favreau makes sure to include enough artificial moonlight to brighten his characters and his locations. I thought The Jungle Book was going to be in trouble here, as the movie contains several nighttime scenes. The clarity of each scene runs deep, and you will spend chunks of minutes enjoying the backgrounds in Favreau’s excellent film. Each scene in The Jungle Book is a gorgeous portrait, and one that you almost want to step into. The depth of focus in Jungle Book is mesmerizing… probably because Jan Favreau had complete control over his digital imagery while constructing The Jungle Book from a green screen. Here, instead, is where 3D makes its money. Otherwise more films would try it, wouldn’t they? Every once in a while, a character’s vivid face will peek off the screen, be it the slinky snake, Kaa ( Scarlett Johansson), with her menacing tongue, or the amusing Baloo ( Bill Murray). Things just don’t reach out and drop in your lap during a 3D movie like they used to, and because so few films attempt it, I’m beginning to think it’s just too hard to pull it off successfully. The enhancement that comes with 3D appears to have been considered on every shot in Jungle Book, meaning Favreau and his team worked hard to earn your 3D money.īefore the Window continues to be a missed opportunity for 3D in the modern age. Other scenes are framed so that we look through an animal’s legs, or over a jungle construct. Right from the very beginning, as the "man-cub" Mowgli (Neel Sethi) bolts through the jungle with a pack of wolves, we view the action through vines, leaves and braches that appear to put us IN the jungle setting. Similarly, The Jungle Book makes it look like every frame was composed with 3D in mind – which is extremely impressive.
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