The Jungle Book 2 similar to the "Peter Pan" sequel "Return to Never Land". It is the third animated Disney sequel to have a theatrical release rather than going direct-to-video after "The Rescuers Down Under" in 1990 and "Return to Never Land" in 2002. The film is a continuation of "The Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling and is not based on "The Second Jungle Book". However, they do have several characters in common. When released, it was criticized mainly for the quality of its animation and the similarity of its plotline to that of the original film. Mowgli is living in the Man Village
Rudyard Kipling in London. On 18 January 1892, Carrie Balestier (aged 29) and Rudyard Kipling (aged 26) were married in London, in the "thick of an influenza epidemic, when the undertakers had run out of black horses and the dead had to be content with brown ones." The wedding was held at All Souls Church, Langham Place. Henry James gave the bride away. Kipling and his wife settled upon a honeymoon that would take them first to the United States (including a stop at the Balestier family estate near Brattleboro, Vermont) and then on to Japan. When they arrived in Yokohama, Japan,