The Jungle Book (soundtrack) by the RIAA, and was later nominated for an Grammy Award for Best Album for Children. Another version, simply titled "The Jungle Book", was issued on the Buena Vista Records label, featuring less narration and dialogue to be marketed for adults. It was first reissued on CD in 1990, as Disneyland Records was reworked into Walt Disney Records. Disneyland Records issued another soundtrack album in 1967, "Songs from Walt Disney’s The Jungle Book and other Jungle Favorites", which featured reworked jazz versions of the film's songs plus two covers, performed by Louis Prima and his band under the title "The
The Jungle Book (2016 film) Stone" awarded the film three-and-a-half stars out of four, labeling it scary and thrilling, yet unique and unforgettable, and adding that it "fills us with something rare in movies today—a sense of wonder." "The Village Voice"s Bilge Ebiri hailed the film as fast and light and that it "manages to be just scary enough to make us feel the danger of solitude in the middle of a massive jungle, but never indulgent or gratuitous." "The New York Times" Manohla Dargis was less enthusiastic. Cath Clarke of "Time Out" compared Elba's character of Shere Khan to Scar from "The Lion King",