Disney, the studio behind “The Jungle Book,” became the Mouse House That Roared again this week with another live-action adaptation of one of its classic animations.
And with cartoon vaults as deep as Ariel’s ocean, Disney may be re-purposing its old films for many decades ahead.
It must be asked: Is this what we really want? Our childhoods reinvented and suffused with shimmery gimmicks? Should cryogenically frozen classics be again reanimated and remade as hot, new sandboxes for all these state-of-the-art pixels (nearly two decades after Disney’s far less high-tech live-action “Jungle Book,” from 1994)?
