Why it's worth seeing even a few minutes of The Jungle Book

Disney's The Jungle Book (2016) is what it is - a highly entertaining movie for kids that will hold the interest of adults as well; from what I remember of the original this update does little to add to or update the plot and characters, but why should it? Even though it's not the kind of movie we'd usually be drawn to, I have to say we were completely blown away by the graphics and animation - in look, pacing, realization it is as far beyond the old animated cartoons of the 80s and earlier as, say, an iphone is far from a Univac. It's truly astonishing to see how everything in the jungle, the flora and fauna and landscape - all seems not just vivid but real: if there weren't talking animals you could truly think this was a nature doc - and then how the seamlessly built in the live action of Mowgli, played apparently by a real kid (Seethi?). If nothing else watch the opening sequences as he runs through the jungle pursued by a pack of wolves - it's so real it's unreal (and I hate the fake realism of the zombie-like creatures in films like Polar Express).