I saw part of this movie again recently and revisited the joy. Sabu has charisma and the costumes and sets are lovely. It's exciting and old-style adventure story. Sabu is a boy raised by wolves and grows up in the jungle learning the language of animals. There's a lot of animism in it, which pertains to world mythology and languages you should understand are you to understand cults, religious programs and other symbols almost universally used in our world environment. The snake - venomous liar - in world symbols represent some politicians, religious tyrants and liars etc... the cat - the aristocrat, black panther, or tiger as some of our famous creative types, or models might be - a predator, beautiful and cruel to the deer and rabbits (a monster in disguise they are predators kill what's deer (DEAR) to you and also your young like your pure SHEEP and Hares (who are gentle followers or who play and imagine) or CHICKENS who are gentle and teach you to value life, be silly if you need to preserve it and set up your nest egg.The cats are the alluring propaganda artists and those who lure us into painful deaths and teach us to be cruel to the gentle and pure vegan types who protect the gentle. All good people must learn to avoid the allure of cruelty disguised as charisma and beauty. It is very difficult - religious leaders, Hitler and many others who practice torture and cruelty and yet have the charisma to sucker nations are these types. We must preserve gentleness to the small as we acquire strength, or we become predators. (The exception being the impossible situation, where you have no choice but to commit violence or be hurt worse by predators. Gentle people will protect and sacrifice if there are no other options to be given)Sabu could talk to all the animals in their language - he understood the language of the snake, and could charm him, he could fight off the Tiger and talk to the monkey kings. All of these animal symbols can teach us different life skills and moral strength. They are very good for children and for adults who don't like learning about the world and life to be dry and without fun or joy.I like the scene where Sabu charmed the snake into carrying him across the river, or when he talked an old venomous guy into letting him take some treasure. There's a great scene where he rides gracefully into the village on a steer's back all the other herd following behind. Old crumbling temples, cozy, exotic villages.... mmm. I didn't like the scene where he kills Sher Kahn. I wish he'd charmed him like the snake, penned him up in a garden, and been smart enough to feed him an alternative diet and keep him from breeding. Didn't have the technology then perhaps. Sabu is just starting out in animal charming. He's very good though. I like his adopted mother. Is his new village symbolic of the wolf pack? Are the villagers predators and wolves? It seems they are sometimes. The man is vicious and verbally aggressive to his daughter, many disrespect their new son. It's a mystery I get something new out of each viewing. Sometimes I wait and re-watch old movies and find new things. Worth it!