I would pay $0.00 to watch this movie

    The first ten minutes of this movie I was thinking "This isn't a terrible kid movie. It isn't a good one, but it isn't awful." The first musical number was tolerable, the animation was good, and it was cute. And then they introduced Baloo.
    John Goodman has a distinctive voice, and his voice job for the big blue bear was OK. That wasn't the problem. The problem was the incessant, brutalizing triteness of the character. This movie had a few original musical numbers, but still managed to play us "The Bear Necessities" at least three times. I got so sick of that song by the end of this movie that I doubt I will ever be able to watch the original Disney "Jungle Book" again.
    This movie should have gone straight to video, and the only reason that I can see as to why it landed in theaters was the big name actors it had doing voices. John Goodman did Baloo, Haley Joel Osmont did Mowgli, and even Phil Collins guested as the goofy vulture. That and the fact that Disney figured they could make a buck off this movie. I swear, this is the sort of movie that gives the movie industry a bad name.
    As far as the breakdown is concerned, the animation was OK, the musical numbers, on a whole, were bad, the direction was not that great, the plot was barely worth the appellation, and the voice acting was not up to the usual Disney standard. The whole movie strikes me as a slap in the face, given Disney's recent tendency to not be terrible.
    The best thing about this movie was the fact that it was very short. I almost walked out several times, and that's a tough thing to get a seasoned terrible movie veteran like myself to do. I would never subject anybody to this movie, not even an infant.