The Jungle Book (1967)

Jon Favreau's 2016 remake makes the forest and its dangers impressively tangible around its live-action Mowgli. The 1967 animation is the version I favour for loose musical companionship and the different bodily rhythms of Baloo and Bagheera. The relaxed structure is a preference rather than a superior realism, and both versions' inherited colonial framing merits attention.