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Tarzan Review

Starring: Tony Goldwin, Minnie Driver, Rosie O'Donnell

Director: Chris Buck, Kevin Lima

Year: 1999

Since my old laptop died, all my old reviews are gone. Since I hadn’t done many, and I feel the quality wasn’t efficient, I think I’ll start with the movie reviews again. Since I’m going through my entire movie collection, this could take awhile. But since nobody is seeing my reviews for awhile, I won’t rush myself, even though I do feel I have the responsibility of the reviews. For my first *new* review, I decided to review Tarzan. I think every kid from the 90s watched these movies, and if you didn’t… I really don’t think you had a childhood. Like really, just the movies your parents picked out for you had a great affect on you. One of the movies I had was Tarzan. Tarzan I feel is a little underrated when people think of the Disney movies. Mainly I think people don’t remember it as much it didn’t have musical style songs, and the characters only sang once, and the rest is sung by Phil Collins. But you know what? Phil Collins did a fucking good job! These songs fit the movie perfectly, fully integrate with what is going on (not as much as typical Disney songs, in than sense it's actually vague) and puts Tarzan up there with best musical scores of the Disney movies. But warning here, I don’t think I’m doing a spoiler section for this, and will be including them in the review. I want to do a plot summary, and can’t without giving away some spoilers, but since Tarzan is pretty old, I think most of the reading this have seen the movie. I think many kids watched the beginnings of these movies more than the rest. We as kids had short attention spans, and would leave the movie at any point. So a great things about going back is finding out the endings we never fully got. I had already seen the movie last year, but I still had forgot a lot. The movie has a very fast pace, and it might be because its based of "Tarzan of the Apes.” I know nothing about the book, but maybe the fast pace was to capture all the story. I do have to say, the movie itself could have just been about how Tarzan gets Kerchak’s respect, and not integrated the humans at all. But I have to say the beginning of this movie is amazing, and uses great animation and symbolism. I like stories where the characters start as children, and I like seeing how the characters of Tarzan grow into adults. I also think the montage fairly into the movie where Tarzan grows into in an adult is my favorite montage in movie history. The growing up part is a good lesson on determination, and growing up. Soon after that the humans show up. The two characters are Jane and her father, who are from England. Each of the characters from Tarzan are really nice, and feel fleshed out enough. They might not be the groundbreaking characters you love to death, but they get the job done. Just because Clayton lives in the shadow of characters like Scar, Hades, and Jafar doesn’t mean he isn’t a good villain. Tarzan also is more than the usual hero. I understand why its hard to make a good main character, but Tarzan took the risk of making their character just a little bit more than the usual, and it worked. He may be jokes, but he is also good natured, determined, and can whoop some Sabor ass. Speaking of Sabor, I feel like he died to soon. Its like he had some leopard vendetta against Tarzan and the apes, but I guess he just wanted to eat. I know his job was just to set up the movie, but he does a little to much to just be killed off, and have his death’s impact but to the side for later. Each scene in Tarzan is very diverse, and has a heavy impact on the story. Not to mention the animation is amazing. Tarzan does more than climb trees, he goes parkour all over the damn place. There are two montages, and they hold enough story to make movies of themselves. (the growing of Tarzan, and his learning of the human world) Tarzan like a lot of other Disney movies needed some kind of director’s cut, one where they add a load of footage, and flesh out the movie for larger fans. That won’t ever happen, but it’s fun to dream. Tarzan is a movie I can watch again and again, as with most Disney movies. It’s a underrated film, and just touched my childhood heart of wanting to swing from vine to vine with pride, and he does a hell of a lot better job of it than George of the Jungle. The morals, and lessons to be learned are a lot stronger than the other Disney movies, and uses well symbolism as well. And just saying, Tarzan can whoop Aladin’s ass no problem in a fight. Hercules on the other hand would never happen. But how about Simba? I mean he beat Sabor, so he can probably beat the Lion King as well! Tarzan maybe not be perfect (I was very close on deciding a 9) but I feel it deserves what it gets. Tarzan is a great movie though, and earns its place among the hall of Disney movies, if not get a special spot within it.