History Awesome / TheJungleBook2016

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* Scarlett Johansson's NightmareFuel-inducing performance as Kaa proves that casting her wasn't such a bad idea.
* The Super Bowl trailer playing an awesome instrumental version of the Bare Necessities over scenes of the film. What a way to get hyped.
* A later sneak peek reveals that Kaa wasn't lying when she said that she knows where Mowgli came from. She goes on to show him ''his entire backstory'' using her hypnosis. Not only is it cool, it's also book-accurate, as in the book Kaa was the wisest being in the jungle.
** She also retains book Kaa's immense size, her reveal panning across her coiled over a tree, and then another tree, and another, so that the audience realizes just how immense this creature is.
* The sheer amount of [[WinBackTheCrowd Winning Back the Crowd]] this film seems to have done for Disney's Live-Action division. Whether or not the final product lives up to the trailers remains to be seen, though.
** Judging from the [[http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_jungle_book_2016/ 94% rating]] on Rotten Tomatoes, yes it does.
* The [[SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome special effects]]. The vast majority of the film is CGI, but you would ''never'' know that if the animals weren't talking. These all look like real creatures, making some films that have used ''actual'' animals look fake.
* Both the beginning and the end credits. It starts with a hand drawn version of the current Disney logo along with the same piece of music the 1967 animated film began plus Bagheera's narration.
** The end credits are a homage to how Disney films would finish: with a book closing and large yellow fonts presenting the film's cast and crew. Also, it adds a musical number with King Louie reprising his theme in that same book.
*** In the special features and commentary on the Blu-ray release, it turns out the book prop used in the end credits is the very same prop used for the original animated movie.
* Neel Sethi's entire performance. Not only does he give a great performance for a child actor, but he spent the entire film production ''acting against screens and air''.

** At the waterhole, Akela stands up to the tiger, claiming that he won't tolerate any harm befalling his packmates, be they man or wolf. Khan agrees ([[CasualDangerDialog with the same tone as someone discussing the weather]]) that the pack could probably bring him down... [[ArmorPiercingQuestion but then asks]] [[TakingYouWithMe how many wolves Akela's willing to sacrifice to make it happen,]], all while wearing an [[BringIt all-too-eager]] SlasherSmile.

** At the watering hole, Akela stands up to the tiger, claiming that he won't tolerate any harm befalling his packmates, be they man or wolf. Khan agrees ([[CasualDangerDialog with the same tone as someone discussing the weather]]) that the pack could probably bring him down... [[ArmorPiercingQuestion but then asks]] [[TakingYouWithMe how many wolves Akela's willing to sacrifice to make it happen,]], all while wearing an [[BringIt all-too-eager]] SlasherSmile.
** His ambush of Mowgli near the Buffalo heard was damn near perfect, and only failed because Bagheera (himself a feline who hunts the same way) was on hand to thwart it. We already knew that Khan was powerful and ruthless, but this scene proved that he [[LightningBruiser has agility a patience to match]].

** Louie emerging from his temple and letting out a mighty roar that goes on for several seconds and makes Baloo, Bagheera, Mowgli, and the other monkeys all freeze. For fans of prehistoric animals, witnessing this was like watching the ''TyrannosaurusRex'' of the apes resurrected from the pages of history in an Indian ''Film/JurassicPark''.