Jungle Tales is a 2022 computer-animated musical adventure comedy film directed by Carlos Saldanha and produced by Movie Land Animation Studios and Kumar Coca. The film stars the voices of Tyler Posey, Ewan McGregor, Keegan-Michael Key, Manish Dayal, Robert Downey, Jr., Chris Pratt, Maya Rudolph, Mila Kunis, Renée Elise Goldsberry and Ed Helms. It was Kumar Coca's seventh feature film.
Jungle Tales had its world premiere in Berlin on March 23, 2022, and was theatrically released on April 1, 2022 in the United States by Warner Bros. Pictures via its Movie Land Animation Studios label. The film received positive reviews from critics, who praised their animation, screenplay and musical score, but received criticism for its similarity in Disney's The Jungle Book and Netflix's Back to the Outback. It was a box-office success, grossing $381.4 million worldwide against a budget of $79 million. In October 2022, it was announced that a sequel was in the works.
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Animation[]
Philippe Gluckman serves as the visual effects supervisor of the film along with Kumar Coca and Movie Land Digital Production Services (MLDPS), which are the principal Visual effects studio of the film. An extensive visual effects work took place for more than six months during the post-production process. The post-production work is moving at a brisk pace.
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Release[]
Jungle Tales was released on April 1, 2022 in the United States. It was originally scheduled to be released on June 17, 2021. On February 25, 2022, Warner Bros. cancelled the film's theatrical release in Russia in response of the ongoing 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Home media[]
Jungle Tales was released on HBO Max on May 13, 2022, which was Friday the 13th. However, Jungle Tales was released on Ultra HD Blu-ray, Blu-ray and DVD on July 5, 2022, by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, through Studio Distribution Services.
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Box-office[]
Jungle Tales grossed $188.2 million in the United States and $193.3 million in other territories, with a total of $381.4 million worldwide from the production budget of $79 million. Deadline Hollywood calculated the film's net profit as $120 million, accounting for production budgets, marketing, talent participations, and other costs; box office grosses and home media revenues.
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Critical responses[]
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 87% of 200 reviews are positive, with an average rating of 8/10. Using a weighted average calculator, Metacritic assigned the film a score of 74 out of 100, based on 180 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.
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- Official website
- Jungle Tales at IMDb
- Jungle Tales at Rotten Tomatoes
- Jungle Tales at Metacritic
