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Tarzan (1999)

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Tarzan (1999)
Shweta Patil@shwetapatil
Mar 17, 2004 02:43 PM, 3475 Views
(Updated Mar 25, 2004)
New Disneyed Tarzan

I have known Tarzan?s story for long time. I have read/seen/heard all kinds of versions: animations, animation series, books and comics on Tarzan. Yet, leave it to Disney to rev up my imagination and caaaaaaaaa-aaaaaaaaall me to the Jungle to retell the story in the most glorious of ways. And y?know what, I enjoyed it too.


?Tarzan? is the same character Edgar Rice Burroughs created in his book ?Tarzan and the Apes?, only mellowed to a fairytale and bathed in beautiful Disney illustrations.


A baby-boy found his way into a family of apes and lived with them to manhood, unaware of the existence any other human being. Life for him was ?in the jungle?; wild with many challenges to face, the biggest of them being accepted as a part of the family of apes he was living with. That part of the story is most inspiring and is well illustrated by Disney story-makers.


The other apes in his family classify him as an inferior and odd creature. He was hairless, his strength was very less compared to other young male apes ? he couldn?t scamper as fast as they could. He never knew of course, that he could walk on two feet for he had seen no one do that. It makes him struggle harder to be known better and he grows up into a lean ape-man with skills that no man (or ape for that matter) had developed. He learns to cruise around his rich and beautiful tropical habitat with his trademark vein-trapeze show. And the scenes where he?s skidding along long, serpentine tree trunks are complete adreline-rushers.


So go Tarzan?s seemingly exciting days, until one day more excitement pours forth with the arrival of Ms. Jane Porter into his life, well, into his forest actually. And there Tarzan is suddenly introduced to the world he originally belonged to. Jane is quite queer for the girls she has been with. She loves apes and comes to the tropical forests with her father, Professor Porter, an expert on apes, to study them. To Tarzan she is the most beautiful creature he?s ever seen. The part where Jane and Tarzan meet starts funny with an army of monkeys chasing them and ends into one of the most romantic ? on a tree in a downpour. Smitten by the love bug almost instantly, Tarzan is eager to know more about them ? Jane, and her companions ? creatures who look like him ? Professor and a Mr. Clayton who is their protector and a skilled hunter. But then trouble brews, for Clayton is a villainous man.


The Disney flick is a commendable effort in terms of illustrations. The tropical forest, its details are very realistic and a great treat for viewers. The movie is a complete entertainer, the songs are very lovely ? especially Phil Collin’s ’Son of Man’. The climax in many ways seems to be an anti-climax, but I guess, any climax would?ve seemed so. But all that pales compared to story itself ? Tarzan?s efforts to fit into the ape-society since childhood, his ape-mother?s support all inspire ?nothing?s impossible? attitude. So, that makes the movie one of the better remakes of the tale and also one of the better ways to spend a Disney movie matinee. Happy viewing!

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