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Baloo is one of the primary characters from Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, and its various adaptations. Kipling’s story introduces a much stricter, wiser Baloo who acts as the "Teacher of the Law" for the wolf cubs, while the Disney version re-imagines him as a fun-loving, easygoing, and lazy sloth bear voiced by Phil Harris. Serving as a primary mentor, protector, and father figure to the "man-cub" Mowgli, Baloo teaches him (alongside Bagheera) the ways of survival in the jungle, particularly against the fearsome tiger Shere Khan. Depending on the adaptation, Baloo shifts species. He is a sloth bear in Disney's animated works, an Asian black bear in the Russian animated series, and a massive Himalayan brown bear in Disney's 2016 live-action remake.
Cars is a 2006 American computer-animated sports comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The film was directed by John Lasseter from a screenplay by Dan Fogelman, Lasseter, Joe Ranft, Kiel Murray, Phil Lorin, and Jorgen Klubien and a story by Lasseter, Ranft, and Klubien, and was the final film independently produced by Pixar after its purchase by Disney in January 2006. Set in a world populated entirely by anthropomorphic talking cars and other vehicles, the film stars the voices of Troy Baker, Patrick Stewart, Emily Blunt, Jack Black, Jesse Eisenberg, Bruno Mars, Nicholas Cage, Ian McKellen, Gideon Emery, Vera Farmiga, Chris Evans, Chris Pratt, Rita Moreno, and Barry Sloane, while race car drivers Dale Earnhardt Jr. (as "Junior"), Mario Andretti, Michael Schumacher and car enthusiast Jay Leno (as "Jay Limo") voice themselves.
