Every Movie Trailer From Super Bowl 50 Ranked From Worst To Best
2. The Jungle Book
There's not been trailer music this good in quite a while (well, discounting Star Wars, obviously). The orchestral cover of Bear Necessities that scores the full spot for The Jungle Book (which must have cost Disney an arm and a leg) is sublime; evocative of the original yet expansive in its own right, it's an excellent tone setter (Maleficent-level gloomy this ain't) and I can't wait for the soundtrack to be released so I can have it on a loop. I'm not sure if my love of the trailer comes simply from this version of the song or what's it's showing of the movie itself, although I have to say I'm pretty turned around on the film too. The world of the jungle itself looks good and suitably varied, the voices fit perfectly (although I'm not yet sold on the idea of having Christopher Walken playing King Louie as Christopher Walken) and there's some nice, unobtrusive shout-outs to the original (just look at Mowgli's face as the monkeys pick him up. In fact, with The Jungle Book actually being a rather mid-range Disney animation - it's got great characters and cracking songs, but the whole story is rather fractured and a little too episodic - this means we're facing a rather curious prospect; a live-action remake of a Disney movie thats better than the original cartoon. I will say one thing though - I have absolutely no idea what they're doing with Mowgli. Is he meant to have been enhanced by CGI to better fit in with the fake animal's he's interacting with, or are the moments where it's not young actor Neel Sethi on a greenscreen just poorly animated puppets? Either way, it doesn't quite look right. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4qgAaxB_pc
