Man, I still sing the, "Bear Necessities" song to myself as a 40 y/o and it's been so long that I can't even remember seeing the original movie. Didn't they put out like 2 additional Jungle Book movies? I can't think of a reason to watch them.

Having grown up with Tail Spin also very much helps the staying power of anything Baloo.

I still sing the "Bear Necessities" song too! But when I tried to watch the movie with my kids, I got incredibly bored. :shrug:

She just loved the singing and dancing, and -loved- the way Baloo talked. Which is interesting because during the movie I was wondering what accent he had, and how that accent doesn't seem to exist anymore.

That's what most mid-southern accents sounded like up until quite recently. A 'southern' accent you hear now is mostly a caricature of an Alabama accent.

The original Jungle Book holds up extremely well for me. I can't think of very many movies that are better.

Sure, and as an adult I would prefer it over most of the other modern productions. The richness of the backgrounds, the characters, the voice acting, the songs = absolutely top notch. But my kid just finds it boring - and he's right to an extent, it's very slow paced, and many scenes are just of characters walking along and talking with each other. Those scenes obviously make a lot of sense from the story telling perspective, but a kid doesn't find watching the congregation of wolves and their discussion about what to do with the man-cub even slightest bit interesting.

That was the nice thing about older movies. It wasn't an intense dopamine rush for 90 minutes. It was a story.