Compared to some of the garbage that came afterward, its a goddamn masterpiece.
Still pretty meh, though. Not Pocohontas levels of shit, but just meh.
Still pretty meh, though. Not Pocohontas levels of shit, but just meh.
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Is the Disney Tarzan movie bad?
- Thread starter Uzumaki Goku
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I like this post.I love it. No, it's not the best or most complicate or well-told of the Disney films... but it hits all the right beats for me, it's got stunning animation, love the soundtrack, the action is some of the best put to animation, and I enjoy the characters immensely.
It has a SHOCKINGLY high body count of important characters too...
Jane's a ton of fun as a love interest too.
I'd probably put it in my top 5, actually. It earns its spot alongside Beauty and the Beast, Lion King, Mulan, and Aladdin.
It for sure is a stunningly beautiful movie. The swinging and sliding through the jungle is unmatched.
As others have said, it is Glen Keane at his very best, but the budget was also huge, so probably the best animation Disney did in the 90s.
It has at least some merit on visuals alone. Atlantis does too.
It has at least some merit on visuals alone. Atlantis does too.
Considering Lilo and Stitch exists, this post is wildly outrageous and shameful.
You're telling me TJB has more better music and characters? You have to be cappin' or don't remember it much. Baloo and Mowgli stand out no doubt, and Bear Necessities is great, but Tarzan has multiple great characters and every song is a hit, not just a one hit wonder. Not to mention the weird pacing issues of TJB.
I really do like Tarzan. It's not my fave (probably mid-upper kind of placement), but it's really good, I looooove the animation (Glen Keane š), and I really like the music, most of the characters (could lose Terk lol, but I like the neurotic elephant), and Clayton is a great villain, with one of the craziest villain deaths in a Disney film (the fact that they show him swinging...).
Just on the subject of animation, this is honestly one of my fave shots in the film. I don't think I've ever seen a Disney character so realistically IN LOVE. Tarzan's face, man. Get yourself a man who will look at you like he's looking at Jane here.
Just on the subject of animation, this is honestly one of my fave shots in the film. I don't think I've ever seen a Disney character so realistically IN LOVE. Tarzan's face, man. Get yourself a man who will look at you like he's looking at Jane here.
I genuinely love the whole sequence where they teach Tarzan about the modern world and he stops in amazement when he sees the planets.
When are we going to start stanning for Atlantis? That was my movie as a kid. I had both the video games for it too.
yeah i meant to add the caveat Emperor and Lilo were cool and turned the rennaissance disney formula on its head. but in aggregate that mid 90s-early 00s run was a grab bag of meh
I feel like I'm the only person in the "I absolutely love this movie but I can't stand Phil Collins and his soundtrack" camp.
It's a movie that has a lot going for it, but it falls short of greatness. I think the problem is that while the human characters are generally quite charismatic, the animal characters are pretty much all mediocre, and many of the film's biggest emotional beats rely on those characters.
I think the main Tarzan/human story is fine. The animation is obviously fucking gorgeous. The animal sidekicks are annoying as shit and offer nothing.
Here's a interesting piece of trivia for the film. You know the famous Tarzan yell?
Well, it wasn't actually done by the actor who did the voice for Tarzan in the film (Tony Goldwyn). It was done by Brian Blessed, who played the movie's villain, Clayton. According to Blessed, Tony Goldwyn just straight-up couldn't do the yell convincingly at all, so he told Disney he could do it (he's a classically trained singer/actor and had the pipes for it).
Here's Blessed telling the story:
Well, it wasn't actually done by the actor who did the voice for Tarzan in the film (Tony Goldwyn). It was done by Brian Blessed, who played the movie's villain, Clayton. According to Blessed, Tony Goldwyn just straight-up couldn't do the yell convincingly at all, so he told Disney he could do it (he's a classically trained singer/actor and had the pipes for it).
Here's Blessed telling the story:
I think it's decently solid, but I wouldn't call it forgettable. For some reason it's the last of the renaissance movies that easily come to mind, I kinda group L&S/Emperor's New Groove together as movies that are really good but I always forget about for some reason.