George Taylor
Man, and I thought the Disney version was crap. This is even worse. Why can't anyone do a decent Tarzan movie? This one, updated to today's world, makes a mockery of the story by ERB. First the kid is too old to become Tarzan, who learns and lives with the GREAT APES, not Monkeys as they constantly say in the beginning. The infant Greystoke becomes Tarzan because he is too young to unlearn anything. Nursed by the great ape Kala, nurtured by her, is the reason he becomes Tarzan. Then they update him to being an American? Horrible. The story is lame, a bare ghost of the original. The only thing worse than this is ANYTHING by the Asylum. Just a tepid watered down version of the great story. And not one voice actor worth noting!
A_Different_Drummer
This movie could benefit from some serious therapy. As near as I can tell it is actually two movies joined together only the bad judgement and odd values of Reinhard Klooss, the writer and director.Such a huge amount of energy for such a strange result!! One film, the one I liked, and the reason I watched to the end, was a sweet (animated) take on the basic Tarzan arc, Tarzan grows up in the jungle, meets Jane, yada yada. Yes it has been done before but the animation and story for this movie (of the two which, combined, make the entire schizoid movie) were satisfying, sincere and fun. Had the movie stayed there, it would have been a decent film.And then there is the second film stuck into the crock pot. Almost as if the writer had seen Lord of the Rings once too often, suddenly a army appears in the jungle out of nowhere, led by a nasty corporate type chasing a very annoying meteor. Ugh. Double ugh.Again nothing here a good shrink could not fix over 200 hours of therapy. And maybe that same shrink could find out why the writer/director felt compelled to kill Tarzan's 'mother" in a scene of gratuitous violence totally out of place in a kid's film?
s-10157
This is terrible! The dialog is stiff and broken. The character's reactions are not synchronize with their face and situation at all. This has to be the worst movie about Tarzan ever. Jane does not have any major impact or impression to the viewer. She appear just to be saved and did not do anything noticeable. And at the end, her "Don't leave me" line is very fake. The final battle is childish and ridiculous. It is very short, and utterly stupid. Note that the earlier plant monster should have joined the final battle. The scary mercenary behaved just like idiots. Seriously? Some small snakes and all of them lost their mind? Honestly. Tarzan himself has a constantly stiff and unchanging expression. While it did change in some scenes, the changes are minimal and hard to see. This movie's a big disappointment that only managed to make me want to re-watch the other, better Tarzan movie.
Michel Chaudron
I saw this with my kids (6 an d 9). They rather liked it and so did I. There are original twists to the plot that I did not know from earlier Tarzan movies. The animation is great. Very realistic movements, expressions and landscapes. I liked the action scenes. Adults know the story, but this is version is told in as gripping and entertaining a way as any other version of it. I actually also liked the pace - which is sometimes too high in moder animations (like Peabody and Sherman). I think it is suitable for 6 and up - there are some emotional and distressing scenes with guns, monsters, fights I really think do not fit younger aged children.This deserves a much higher ranking on IMDb.
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