YMMV / The Jungle Book 2

• Angst? What Angst?: 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, they never even show up at all.
• Ass Pull: 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 Animal Talk.
• Awesome Art: 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 Scenery Porn level. The jungle looks more lush and beautiful than ever before.
• Awesome Moments:
  • 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.
  • Ranjan saving Shanti from getting eaten by Kaa.
• Awesome Music: Baloo's new song, "W-I-L-D".
• Badass Decay:
  • Baloo's clearly out of practice, to the point that Mowgli must remind him how to roar like a bear.
  • While 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.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: "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.
• Broken Base: 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 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.
• Can't Un-Hear It: Thanks to the voice acting choices, it's hard to unhear Mowgli as Sora, Shanti as Katara, Baloo as Sulley (bonus points for having a scene where he scares someone), Shere Khan as Frollo, etc.
• Critic-Proof: The film holds an abysmal 18% on Rotten Tomatoes. That didn't stop the movie from being a box office success.
• Evil Is Cool: 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 reprised by Tony Jay certainly helps.
• He's Just Hiding: Word of God said there was supposed to be a third movie where Shere Khan survives his Disney Villain Death.
• It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: 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.
• Just Here for Godzilla: 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 Shere Khan. The rest of the movie is so-so.
• Memetic Molester: The hypnotic Kaa again, of course. The fact that he seduces Shanti this time means he's often characterized as the Depraved Bisexual type.
• One-Scene Wonder: Kaa is back to being this again, two if you count his second appearance when Shere Khan interrogates him.
• Sequelitis: The film is universally considered to be inferior to the original film, due in part to its story being a blatant, watered down rehash of the first and for undoing Baloo's Character Development from the original.
• Signature Scene: If there's one scene people remember from the movie, it's Kaa hypnotizing Shanti.
• Strawman Has a Point: 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 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 without dinner, the boy technically did put the entire man village in danger by almost leading them into the jungle.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Usually Mowgli seems to speak the language of the animals. Shanti and Ranjan being capable of conversing with Baloo and Bagheera (and vice versa) implies that in this universe, that isn’t true, which a lot of fans didn’t like, in addition to being something that came out of nowhere.