Jon Favreau’s adaptation is basically the 1994 film in photorealistic drag.

Disney’s recent trend of remaking their classic animated features as slightly imaginative live-action cash-grab ventures continues with The Jungle Book. This is a movie that does two things: shows us all how far Jon Favreau has fallen since leaving the Iron Man franchise and provides evidence that some junior exec at the House of Mouse must’ve got rip-roaring drunk before …

2005: Fantastic Four (Dir. Tim Story) Fantastic Four doesn’t start off any worse than most blockbusters. A space journey goes wrong and four scientists are transformed into superhumans. This magnification of human character is good idea done better in other comic book adaptations like Swamp Thing. But at least half this quartet is utterly forgettable—Ioan Gruffud’s Reed Richards is less …