The story of Mowgli, the young, orphaned boy raised in the Indian jungle by a pack of wolves, has captivated moviegoers for generations. First adapted from Rudyard Kipling's 1894 book of the same name ...

As I settled in Tuesday night for a screening of Disney and director Jon Favreau's new "Jungle Book" adaptation, a fellow audience member expressed to me a not-infrequent sentiment as of late. "I just ...