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Love_Spoon [ 7.0 ]
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Pretty entertaining little Disney movie, although nothing out of the formula (see review for "Dinosaur"). The thing I enjoyed most about Tarzan apart from the voice-overs (Bravo Rosie!) and the excellent soundtrack is the action-packed animation. I suppose it's a good thing that Disney spends the money they do on their movies, or they'd probably be pretty ho-hum.
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brandon [ 7.0 ]
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.. didn't involve me to the extent that i've come to expect from the recent disney films. although the blend of animation and computer graphic images was amazing, it still all comes down to the story being parlayed .. perhaps i'm just getting pickier, but the story didn't seem to present much of anything new. then again, it could be because tarzan has been such a common element for film .. still, i enjoyed it.
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madcow [ 9.5 ]
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i thoroughly enjoyed this movie from beginning to end... the animation is nice and jane is adorable... the comedy sidekick isn't annoying like jar jar binks so what more can you ask for?
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tarzans_girl [ 10.0 ]
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Well, I was extremely blown away by Deep Canvas. The new way to color and film background. It was simply marvelous. The music by Phil Collins was very well done. I must say Disney went through a lot for this film and it paid off. The characters sometimes didn't seem to fit in with the background at times, but it didn't matter, since you were soo hooked into the plot and what the characters had to say. This movie made me laugh, it made me cry, and then it made me want to get up and dance. You really got a feel for the characters and you really felt for them when something bad happened. I must admit that Disney could have gone into the plot a bit more and included Clayton in the movie some more, but he's just a villian so I don't care much about that. This is one movie that will be sure to make a scene on the Oscars this year for best song and maybe best score. This is one movie you don't want to miss!
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DokBrowne [ 9.5 ]
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A purely WONDERFUL movie, surely the best movie of the first 6.5 months of 1999. Standard-setting, absolutely beautiful in every sense animation that makes the jungles more wondrous and immersing than ever before; the new Deep Canvas technology assists this production in creating Disney's most wildly-paced and kinetically exciting sequences ever, during Tarzan's vine-swinging escapades and especially for each of the several breathtaking-and-keeping action scenes; above-average lyrics from Phil Collins, who is never memorable, but certainly a treat, and provides a blessing of a diversion by taming the musical extravaganza and keeping the songs in the background, as a sort of narration; real emotion generated, which sounds like a cliche, but nary any cartoon epic in the Disney vault has done so -- they're more about the fun, and, lately especially, the deeper stuff has gotten much more synthetic (even last year's "Mulan" faltered on the feelings plain). But "Tarzan" pulls it off, and I genuinely cared about his fate, which, personally, had a stronger attraction for me, since I'd never seen a Lord of the Apes pic until this one, so I didn't know how it would end -- would he stay with his family or tread new territory? Granted, conclusion is somewhat predictable, but for a sap like me, Disney more than anyone else has earned the priviledge of being beloved sans judgment on its obvious content (at least this time); there was a moment, when Kerchak dies, when I almost teared up, a sensation never produced by a Disney film (almost in "The Lion King"); similarly, the writing is excellent, with a nearly-complete elimination of poor juvenile humor; the voices are all convincing, but Minnie Driver stands out in a wonderfully charming take on Jane (also helped by the the best-looking female Disney lead this side of Ariel, probably of all time). She matches the legendary likes of past vocal overachievers, including Sterling Holloway, James Woods, Jeremy Irons, Jerry Orbach, Robin Williams, Hans Conreid, and Samuel E. Wright. She's purely a joy, and no less (though certainly more) can be said of the movie itself; bad stuff: a couple annoying kiddie gags courtesy of the doofus elephant, and Rosie O'Donnell's Terk, while a necessary and tolerable sidekick, never ignites in best Disney tradition, and her Brooklyn riff doesn't really belong here; Clayton is appropriately evil and heartless, but not original at all, and as a character is too evil -- there's no excuse left why anyone in Hollywood shouldn't be conscious of the fact that no good villain is truly, 100% bad
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| Weighted Rating | : 7.5 |
| No. Ratings | : 14 | |
| No. Reviews | : 7 | |
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