"Maugli. Vozvrashchenie k lyudyam" is the final entry to Davydov's and Belokurov's Jungle Book series and I think all in all they managed a good ending, even if I had hoped for something great and this was not it. The series has gotten a little bit worse since the really strong start and this also shows here. the battle sequence with Shire Khan is great and the actual farewell scene at the end is also fairly emotional. Nonetheless, the fact that he leaves could have been better elaborated on. He saw the human girl earlier and she ran away from him and now the same again. Obviously, he realizes where he belongs, but I did not feel he made a truly emotional connection with the humans that really would let him give up life with the animals. Anyway, two more differences: Baloo is the voice of reason in these films and has no parallels to the funny stuff from the American version that came out at the same time or slightly earlier. And Kaa is not as evil as in the American version apparently either, apparently not evil at all, which is somewhat hard to believe with the scary voice provided here. All in all, this last installment was a decent watch that makes sense watching in the grand scheme of things (i.e. if you have seen the previous parts), but as a standalone film disappointed me a bit.