The Jungle Book (Jon Favreau/ 2016/ USA/ Adventure-Drama-Family-Fantasy/ 106 mins/ Rated PG for some sequences of scary action and peril), 3D version only 12.30 midday, 3pm, 5.35pm & 8.30pm Digicel Imax Theatre, One Woodbrook Place; 3D – 2:00pm, 4:30pm, 7:00pm & 9:30pm (11:30am Sat & Sun);2D - 1:30pm & 4:30pm (11:00am Sat & Sun), MovieTowne POS

. Watch this if you liked Paddington, The Adventures of Tintin or E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial. Anyone who does not think that complex modern technology is not as important as simple ancient storytelling need only look at earlier attempts to tell Rudyard Kipling’s best-loved stories and compare them with the new Disney version: today’s Jungle Book is vastly superior. That the human element remains crucial is proved by Jon Favreau, a decent comic actor turned very good director, and the constellation of star voices, including bill Murray as Baloo, Ben Kingsley as Bagheera, Idris Elba as Shere Khan and Scarlett Johansson as Kaa. (For BC on TV, the gravelly-voiced Christopher Walken as King Louie steals the show.) Magnificent animation and superb physical acting from the one human star, Neel Sethi, as Mowgli, the boy raised by wolves complete a nearly perfect film, whose only blemishes are the slightly annoying Americanisms that, really, are par for the Disney course. On the Digicel Imax screen, it is absolutely stunning. The rating advises parental guidance but the movie is good enough to suggest parental and general adult attendance; even if you don’t have children.