--- title: 'Jungle Book': Watch the Honest Trailer Parody description: In its latest honest trailer released Tuesday, YouTube channel Screen Junkies takes on "The Jungle Book" canonical: https://time.com/4463722/jungle-book-honest-trailer/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-23T22:19:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:35:46.693Z og:title: Watch the Hilarious 'Jungle Book' Honest Trailer og:description: It's kid-friendly version of "The Revenant" og:url: https://time.com/4463722/jungle-book-honest-trailer/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch the Hilarious 'Jungle Book' Honest Trailer twitter:description: It's kid-friendly version of "The Revenant" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The Honest Trailer for _The Jungle Book_ Proves It's a Kid-Friendly _The Revenant_ by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Aug 23, 2016 10:19 PM UTC by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Aug 23, 2016 10:19 PM UTC In its latest honest trailer released Tuesday, YouTube channel [Screen Junkies](http://time.com/4177575/honest-trailer-pearl-harbor/) takes on [_The Jungle Book_](http://time.com/4293583/review-jungle-book-jon-favreau/). Aimed at the Jon Favreau-directed [Disney movie](http://time.com/4463355/disney-music/) starring Neel Sethi, Bill Murray, Idris Elba, Lupita Nyong’o and other A-listers pretending to be fake animals. It’s “a winning combination of the _Lion King_, a Ben Kingsley nature documentary and a kid-friendly version of _The Revenant_,” the voiceover teases. The narrator also reveals that he couldn’t help but be impressed by the writing and visuals, or as he put it, the movie is “_way_ better than it deserved to be.” The parody even features clips of the cast recording the voiceovers, including Christopher Walken singing the new version of “I Want To Be Like You.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4463722/jungle-book-honest-trailer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4463722/jungle-book-honest-trailer/"},"headline":"The Honest Trailer for The Jungle Book Proves It's a Kid-Friendly The Revenant","datePublished":"2016-08-23T22:19:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:35:46.693Z","description":"It's \"way better than it deserved to be\"","url":"https://time.com/4463722/jungle-book-honest-trailer/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet","movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4463722/jungle-book-honest-trailer/","name":"The Honest Trailer for The Jungle Book Proves It's a Kid-Friendly The Revenant"}}]}] ```