'Mowgli' takes a darker, more CGI-filled look at the hero of 'The Jungle Book' — and pings b etween peaks and uncanny valleys. Our review.

And the python Kaa (Cate Blanchett, oozing authority), a literally hypnotic character, says “I think we can all agree, Mowgli, that you are something the jungle has never seen before.” ...

Australian actor and producer Catherine Élise Blanchett began her career on stage before moving on to television and finally ...

Narrated by Cate Blanchett’s sinister, prodigious python, Kaa, the film’s intro finds wild child Mowgli (Rohan Chand) in full identity crisis, with the man-cub awkwardly straddling the ...

“Mowgli” review: Welcome to the Jungle (Book) Actor-director Andy Serkis takes a harsher, darker, more CGI-heavy look at "The Jungle Book" ...

Python Kaa (a sultry-voiced Cate Blanchett) leads the audience in and out of the story through prophetic declarations about the jungle, balance, and how the man-cub factors into this circle of life.

Mowgli, escorted by a panther named Bagheera, goes, but only under protest. Along the way they encounter Baloo, the laid-back “Bare Necessities” bear, the enchanting and hungry Kaa (a python ...

Young Mowgli (Neel Sethi) is threatened by stampeding water buffalo, mudslides and raging rivers. The python Kaa and ape King Louie are massive and intimidating. And the brilliantly lifelike tiger ...

Bagheera and Baloo’s conflict over how Mowgli should be raised has scary high stakes to it, and Kaa is a more interesting character than the hypnotizing tree snake from Disney.

During a re-creation of the famed Jungle Book river scene, in which Mowgli floats atop Baloo as the two sing Bare Necessities, Favreau got into the giant water tank to sing the already-recorded ...