12. The Jungle Book- 1967

Rating: 👌🏼 ok

Mowgli is a boy who is raised in the jungle by animals. But when Shere Khan, the alpha tiger, returns he is not pleased to find a man cub in their midst. The animals decide that it is best to bring Mowgli to a man village to live out the rest of his days, but they must get him there before Shere Khan finds him and kills him.

This was the first disappointment I experienced with this challenge. I remember LOVING this movie as a kid. The soundtrack is still 🔥 and the movie starts out well enough with the lovable protagonist Mowgli. But the animation did not look as high-quality as I’ve come to expect from Disney, and while the musical numbers are awesome, they’re not enough to keep this movie from becoming boring. Towards the end Mowgli sees a girl for the first time and appears to experience a sexual awakening, which is awkward for a Disney movie... Then she sings an incredibly misogynistic song about how men go to work, and girls carry water and become women who stay at home. That was the straw that broke the camel’s back and forced me to rate this movie lower than I had anticipated.