Line #3 YMMV/TheJungleBook2


1	* AngstWhatAngst: Despite pining for the jungle for so long, Mowgli does not even make so much as a passing mention of his wolf family. Come to think of it, [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome they never even show up at all]].
2	* AssPull: Shanti and Ranjan being able to talk to Baloo and Bagheera comes out of nowhere as it was believed that like most versions, the animals and Mowgli use AnimalTalk.
3	* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: For all its flaws, this movie ''looks'' great. While the character animation never reaches the level of the original movie, the effects and use of color are a lot more vibrant and impressive, and the backgrounds reach SceneryPorn level. The jungle looks more lush and beautiful than ever before.
4	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments:
5	** Shere Khan throughout the film. He's more menacing and scary, which is one of the few things everybody considers the film to get right.
6	** Ranjan saving Shanti from getting eaten by Kaa.
7	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Baloo's new song, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4badiTTXHM "W-I-L-D"]].
8	* BadassDecay:
9	** Baloo's clearly out of practice, to the point that Mowgli must remind him how to roar like a bear.
10	** While [[BewareTheSillyOnes still goofy]], Kaa successfully hypnotized both Mowgli and Bagheera during the course of the first movie and only failed to eat them through outside interference. In the second movie, he's a complete joke who is beaten up by ''Ranjan'' of all people.
11	* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: "W-I-L-D" shows up completely out of nowhere, you could cut it from the movie without affecting the story in any way whatsoever, is ''extremely'' over the top and seemingly used as an excuse to bring in a modern rock song to the movie, and it's never spoken of again after it happens.
12	* BrokenBase: John Goodman's Baloo. While it's generally agreed that he wasn't as good as Phil Harris, some thought he was miscast (especially compared to Ed Gilbert's [[WesternAnimation/TaleSpin spot-on job in the past]], though that couldn't be helped since he passed away four years prior to this movie's release) while others thought he did a fine job.
13	* CantUnHearIt: Thanks to the voice acting choices, it's hard to unhear [[Creator/HaleyJoelOsment Mowgli]] as [[Franchise/KingdomHearts Sora]], [[Creator/MaeWhitman Shanti]] as [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Katara]], [[Creator/JohnGoodman Baloo]] as [[Franchise/MonstersInc Sulley]] (bonus points for having a scene where he scares someone), [[Creator/TonyJay Shere Khan]] as [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney Frollo]], etc.
14	* CriticProof: The film holds an abysmal 18% on Rotten Tomatoes. That didn't stop the movie from being a box office success.
15	* EvilIsCool: Every scene with Shere Khan in it is made a million times better due to massively raising the tension. It easily makes him the most memorable part of the film. Being [[WesternAnimation/TaleSpin reprised by]] Creator/TonyJay certainly helps.
16	* HesJustHiding: WordOfGod said there was supposed to be a third movie where Shere Khan survives his DisneyVillainDeath.
17	* ItsTheSameNowItSucks: A recurring complaint is that the sequel more or less replays a lot of the same scenes and character exchanges as the first to the point of bordering on being a remake, especially considering there were plenty other elements of the novels' mythos or even just the original film that they could have expanded on.
18	* JustHereForGodzilla: A lot of people just watch the film for the scenes in the man village, which was never shown in detail in the original, and pretty much everything involving [[KnightOfCerebus Shere Khan]]. The rest of the movie is so-so.
19	* MemeticMolester: The hypnotic Kaa again, of course. The fact that he seduces Shanti this time means he's often characterized as the DepravedBisexual type.
20	* OneSceneWonder: Kaa is back to being this again, two if you count his second appearance when Shere Khan interrogates him.
21	* RetroactiveRecognition: As pointed out in CantUnHearIt above, the [[Creator/HaleyJoelOsment future voice]] of [[Franchise/KingdomHearts Sora]] voices Mowgli. There is also the [[Creator/MaeWhitman future voice]] of [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Katara]] herself, who voiced Shanti.
22	* {{Sequelitis}}: The film is universally considered to be inferior to the original film, due in part to its story being a [[SamePlotSequel blatant, watered down rehash of the first]] and for undoing Baloo's CharacterDevelopment from the original.
23	* SignatureScene: If there's one scene people remember from the movie, it's Kaa hypnotizing Shanti.
24	* StrawmanHasAPoint: The movie paints Mowgli's foster father as intolerant for not allowing Mowgli anywhere near the jungle, and he eventually realizes that the jungle is part of who Mowgli is. But [[{{Pun}} bear]] in mind, the jungle is a place of natural wildlife and predators, even if we ignore Shere Khan and Kaa, so his line of thinking makes sense. This was even Bagheera's point of why he had to be given to the Man Village in the original. Whether you thought he was hard on Mowgli by sending him to his room [[DeniedFoodAsPunishment without dinner]], the boy technically did put the entire man village in danger by almost leading them into the jungle.

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