Tarzan (1999)
Average Rating: 7.6/10
Reviews Counted: 102
Fresh: 90 | Rotten: 12
Disney's Tarzan takes the well-known story to a new level with spirited animation, a brisk pace, and some thrilling action set-pieces..
Average Rating: 7.3/10
Critic Reviews: 28
Fresh: 24 | Rotten: 4
Disney's Tarzan takes the well-known story to a new level with spirited animation, a brisk pace, and some thrilling action set-pieces..
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Movie Info
Author Edgar Rice Burroughs once suggested that animation would be the ideal medium to bring his Tarzan to the screen, and 81 years after the first film about the famous ape-man, Disney brings us the first full-length animated film starring the King of the Jungle. After a disaster at sea causes their ship to sink off the coast of Africa, a British couple finds their way to shore with their infant son in tow. However, the parents are killed by a leopard, leaving the baby to fend for himself. The
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Cast
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Brian Blessed
Clayton -
Glenn Close
Kala -
Minnie Driver
Jane -
Tony Goldwyn
Tarzan -
Nigel Hawthorne
Professor Porter -
Lance Henriksen
Kerchak -
Wayne Knight
Tantor -
Alex D. Linz
Young Tarzan -
Rosie O'Donnell
Terk
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All Critics (105) | Top Critics (28) | Fresh (90) | Rotten (12) | DVD (29)
The stylized physiques and movements of the characters in this exciting animated musical-romance-adventure are at once realist and fantastic.
Top CriticNo classic, but very enjoyable.
Simply a smashingly well-done example of animated storytelling.
It's both a little scary and a lot funny, and kids will no doubt lap it up.
So far, the most entertaining film of the year.
Travels light, moves quickly and leaves very little in its wake.
Kids will be drawn to Disney's fast-paced version.
The most legitimately touching Disney feature of the 1990s.
Just as Disney animation has become increasingly impressive, so have Disney animated films become increasingly adult.
Highly enjoyable, great looking animated adventure that combines its touching storyline with plenty of wit and style.
A splendid, eye-filling adventure that harkens back in many ways to the 1967 animated version of The Jungle Book.
There is not one frame of this film that I would change.
A technical marvel from Disney that shrewdly compresses and streamlines the Disney formula into a more efficient whole.
An exciting, accomplished work that ranks with the wonderful Johnny Weissmuller movies.
...one of Disney's most beautiful, most spectacular visual treats, even if the story line and characters are watered-down children's fare.
A beautifully crafted, well-paced and well-voiced feature that will easily become yet another Disney classic.
The first half of Tarzan is Disney's best stuff since Beauty and the Beast ... [then it] declines into a typical showdown with a forgettable villain.
If only the film had taken a few more risks instead of hewing so closely to the patented Disney formula, it might have been a truly outstanding movie instead of merely an entertaining one.
How does Disney do it?
This film is beautiful, fun, touching, and exciting.
Tarzan is as full and seasoned a crop as one could expect from a field that has already been cultivated too many times.
An exhilarating adventure with an aching emotional tale at its heart.
Audience Reviews for Tarzan
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- Kerchak: Everyone, we will avoid the strangers. Do not let them seek you and do not seek them out.
- Tarzan: They mean us no harm.
- Kerchak: Tarzan, I don't know them.
- Tarzan: But I do. I spent time with them.
- Kerchak: You may be willing to risk our family, but I'm not.
- Tarzan: Why are you threatened by anyone different than you?
- Kerchak: Protect this family, and stay away from them!
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- Clayton: I'm so sorry about the rude welcome, oh boy, but I couldn't have you making a scene when we put your furry friends in their cages.
- Tarzan: Why?
- Clayton: Why? For three hundred pounds sterling ahead. Actually, I have you to thank, dear boy. Couldn't have done it without you.
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- Jane: Put me down! Put me down! *scary monkeys appear*
- Jane: Pick me up! Pick me up! Pick me up!
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- Tarzan: *to Kerchak* Why are you threatened by anyone different than you?
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- Kerchak: Kala, look at him, he will never be one of us.
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- Kala: Close your eyes. *puts Tarzan's hand to his chest* now forget what you see what do you feel?
- Young Tarzan: My heart.
- Kala: Come here. *brings Tarzan to her chest*
- Young Tarzan: Your heart.
- Kala: See? They're exactly the same, Kerchak just can't see that.
- Young Tarzan: I'll make him see it, I'll be the best ape ever!
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Foreign Titles
- Tarzan (DE)
- Walt Disney's Tarzan (UK)
