by Kevin Muller
In these days, CGI, or computer generated imagery, is so common that we actually yearn and gravitate towards old school practical effects. Spike Jonze adapted the famous children’s book “Where the Wild Things Are” using people in giant costumes to portray his monsters instead of fully rendering them with computer graphics and the original “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, definitely not “The Hobbit” movies, used as little CGI as possible. Every so often, a movie comes along that pushes the bar further for what CGI is really capable of achieving. Jon Favreau’s “The Jungle Book” is that very movie. It is a visual masterpiece and a great retelling of the famous Disney cartoon.
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