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The Jungle Book Honest Trailer Reminds Us It’s Basically Just a Kid Running Around in His Underwear

The Honest Trailer for Jon Favreau’s Jungle Book calls it “the year’s best film about talking animals”—which is saying something, since there have been a lot of talking animal movies in 2016, including Finding Dory and Zootopia. But it’s true that even though Jungle Book was just another live-action remake on Disney’s master spreadsheet, it was full of enough stunning visuals and great characters to make you forget that it was basically a kid running around in his underwear in front of a blue screen the whole time.

Of course, the performances by the Jungle Book’s voice cast weren’t exactly a stretch, as the trailer points out: Bill Murray as a lovable old bear? Scarlett Johansson as an inexplicably sexy snake? Christopher Walken as “a giant ape who appears when you play the cowbell”? Too easy.