


Also Bill Murray's ferocious-looking softie of a bear, Baloo, who, being afraid of heights, enlists Mowgli's aid in harvesting honey from cliffside bees. To spare the pack, Mowgli sets off on his own.encountering assorted dangers: Scarlett Johansson's seductive python Christopher Walken's hulking orangutan (who's introduced in a winking nod to Apocalypse Now). Now, though, the little man-cub is big enough that he's attracting attention - negative attention - from tiger Shere Khan voiced by Idris Elba, who vows to slaughter wolves en masse if the lad's not handed over.

He found the kid as an infant and got a wolf-pack to raise him. Bagheera, voiced by Ben Kingsley but persuasively furred, clawed, and ferocious, is Mowgli's guardian. When the boy loses his footing, the panther leaps.and then lectures the lad that if he doesn't get better at running with the pack, he's going to end up as someone's dinner.
