April 21, 2016 Page 3 ‘The Jungle Book,’ Animation For A New Generation “Much effort, much prosperity.” - euripides Classifieds The deadline for Classified Ad submission and payment is Noon on Tuesday to appear in Thursday’s paper. Advertisements must be submitted in writing by mail, fax or email. You may pay by cash, check, or credit card (Visa or M/C over the phone). Errors: Please check your advertisements immediately. Any corrections and/or changes in an ad must be requested prior to the following Tuesday deadline in order to receive a credit. A credit will be issued for only the first time the error appears. Multiple runs will only be credited for the first time the error appears. No credit will be issued for an amount greater than the cost of the advertisement. Beware: Employment offers that suggest guaranteed out-of-state or overseas positions may be deceptive or unethical in nature. 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It all went up north to our friends in Northern California. The snow pack in the High Sierras is pretty good. But we still have to conserve our water. My lawn is turning brown again. It’s tempting to turn my lawn sprinklers on every day to keep it green. Now we read that the heavy rains “might” come in the Fall. With our 80 degree weather recently, we all need to get ready for another hot, dry summer. Sometimes we forget that we live in a desert. Relay for Life The American Cancer Society’s Hawthorne Chapter will sponsor their annual “Relay for Life” fundraising walk at Hawthorne High School beginning at 9 a.m. on Saturday, April 30th and concluding 24 hours later at 9 a.m. on Sunday, May 1st. Teams are formed to encourage one another to raise funds together. The opening lap is led by our cancer survivors. 5K Run and Health Fair The Hawthorne Educational Foundation and School District will host the Hawthorne 5K Run and Health Fair this year on the Hawthorne High School campus starting at 9 a.m. on Saturday, May 7th. All Hawthorne students get to run for free with registration for others online. Congratulations to the Hawthorne Math and Science Academy for being ranked 12th best high school in the state of California. Great job by the Hawthorne School District under the outstanding leadership of Dr. Helen Morgan, HSD superintendent, and the school board. Community K9 Dinner I know it is a few weeks away, but the Hawthorne President’s Council will once again sponsor a Community BBQ Dinner to raise funds for the Hawthorne Police Department’s K9 Unit. The date is Thursday, May 26th starting at 5 p.m. at the Memorial Center. God, Family, and Cold Ones Some of you readers out there have commented that you are disappointed when I don’t include some reference to having a cold one, or how my old lady is upset with me for doing something stupid, or when I try to create the gospel according to Huber by misquoting the Holy Scriptures. It’s difficult to be “fresh and real” every week. The truth be told, I don’t drink much. Honestly, I’ve had only one cold one in the last month. My dear wife has stayed with me for more than 36 years, and God works in “mysterious ways” to seek and to save people like me who were lost. When it’s all said and done, take my column for what it’s meant to be, a little “crumb” for the soul. Take it with a “grain of salt”. If you don’t like what I say, file it in the circular file. It doesn’t hurt me too much when I see so many of my columns rolled up inside those newspapers thrown in the gutter getting run over by cars and wet from the sprinklers. Why should I worry? Life is good. God loves me, my old lady loves me and I love to have a cold one once in a while. • Email me at: norbhuber@gmail.com By Ryan Rojas for Cinemacy.com It’s a weird thing, to be old enough to feel nostalgia for one’s own childhood. As the first wave of this millennial generation, and a child of the 90s, I am part of the last generation of people to have watched our movies on VHS cassette tapes. One of those movies amongst a collection of other classic Disney animated films, is the 1967 version of, The Jungle Book. Thirty-nine years ago a hand-drawn masterpiece debuted (the last animated film that Walt Disney personally oversaw before passing away), I find myself at the famed El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, waiting for this new update to begin. As a critic amongst critic peers, sitting in a mostly family-and-kids packed screening, I put on my 3-D glasses, and after seeing the opening, iconic, Disney castle and logo fill the screen, we are all one theatre, pulled into a truly amazing, fully digitally animated world that is the Jungle Book for a new generation. This year’s remake of the same name, The Jungle Book, brings to the screen the same heart-warming story as the 1967 version but in dazzling and brilliantly rendered CGI animation (parents, don’t fear that this new remake is following the trend of “darker” films – save that for 2018’s Warner Brothers version of the remake, simply titled, Jungle Book). The marketing promotes that this film is brought to us “from the Studio that gave us Pirates of the Caribbean,” which smartly reminds us that they know how to adapt the rollercoaster ride-to-movie experience. Upon dissolving from the Disney logo, the camera glides and flies, twists and turns, over and under vines and tree branches in ride-like manner, as we follow digitally animated wolves and animals scaling the jungle, as well as our protagonist and our young man-cub. Mowgli, played by newcomer Neel Sethi, is the only human onscreen for the entirety of the movie (again, this film should technically be considered an animated film), and gives the sort of school-play performance. Our young Mowgli, swathed in the same red trunk undergarment, is surrounded by the familiar animal friends we all know and love as part of the Jungle Book-lore – and who are all cast perfectly. As Mowgli’s protective panther Bagheera, who finds and watches over the young child, Ben Kingsley is strong and eloquent with his English dialect, narrating our way in to this new world. As the threatening and snarling tiger Shere Kahn, fellow Brit Idris Elba (Beasts of No Nation), whose voice you may recognize from the other Disney hit Zootopia, provides the voice of the villain whose distrust of the man-cub sets the story in motion, claiming the young boy is a threat to all of the animal kingdom, vowing to hunt him down to remove him – permanently – from the jungle. When young Mowgli decides, for the betterment of his family and the rest of the jungle, to leave his wolf family behind, including his mother Raksha (Lupita Nyong’o, Star Wars: The Force Awakens) and father Akela (Giancarlo Esposito, Breaking Bad), he meets the rest of the iconic Jungle Book characters. Credit the film for understanding and playing to all of the characters (and actors) strengths, for the movie blossoms anew in fun in the second act when a lone Mowgli meets his bear pal Baloo, the ever-hilarious Bill Murray. Murray as Baloo is a delight, and from this point forward, it felt as though the older-aged skewing audience took equal-to-more delight in seeing the lovable bear crack so casually wise as only Murray can. And yes, the iconic songs make the cut here, (Murray’s splashy rendition of “The Bare Necessities” feels like it was performed by Disneyland’s very own New Orleans Square jazz band) but in good restraint. The movie weaves the songs naturally into the story that’s in place, meaning no show-stopping musical numbers here, but that serves the feeling of being a movie all the same. This extends to the other Jungle Book hit “I Wanna Be Like You,” sung by the legendary Christopher Walken, as King Louie gets a massive wide-eyed character redesign akin to a slightly more friendly King Kong – slightly. The Jungle Book is the latest Disney movie from their animated masterpiece canon to get a “live-action” remake (after Cinderella, and look for the recently announced Emily Blunt-starring Mary Poppins). It’s a through and through adaptation, almost exact copy and paste of the hand-drawn version, and yet it still feels plumb new, every moment of it captivating and eliciting childlike wonder from all. Director Jon Favreau (Iron Man) whips up a new animated experience for a new generation of kids. Your kids’ kids adaptation will most likely be the Virtual-Reality experience, but for now, the film impresses with its use of digital animation, along with the magic that made it so great – those simple, bare necessities. • 105 minutes. Rated PG for some sequences of scary action and peril. Now playing everywhere. Film Review Neel Sedthi in The Jungle Book. Courtesy of Disney per published photo. Must provide names and captions with all photos. 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