Tarzan (1999) Review

Tarzan


Release Date: 9th September 1999 - Australia


Production Companies
Walt Disney Pictures
Walt Disney Feature Animation

Distribution
Walt Disney Studios Motion
Pictures Australia


Genre: Animation/Family

Rating: PG

Runtime: 88 minutes


Budget: $130,000,000

Box Office Gross: $448,191,819
(Worldwide)



Plot Summary
Deep within the African
jungle, a mother gorilla
names an orphaned baby
boy "Tarzan" and adopts
him as her own, even
though the silver-back
leader Kerchak shuns
the "hairless wonder,"
Growing up alongside
his wisecracking ape
buddy Terk and
neurotic elephant pal
Tantor, Tarzan develops
all the instincts and
prowess of a jungle
animal, "surfing" and
swinging through the
trees at lighting speed.

But with the sudden
appearance of Tarzan's
own kind - humans -
including the beautiful
Jane, the only world
Tarzan has ever known
and the one in which he
belongs collide with
extraordinary force!


Voice Cast
Tony Goldwyn - Tarzan
Alex D. Linz - Young Tarzan
Minnie Driver - Jane Porter
Glenn Close - Kala
Lance Henriksen - Kerchak
Brian Blessed - Clayton
Nigel Hawthorne - Professor
Archimedes Q. Porter
Rosie O'Donnell - Terk
Wayne Knight - Tantor

Crew
Directors - Kevin Lima &
Chris Buck
Based on Novel "Tarzan of
the Apes" - Edgar Rice
Burroughs
Story - Stephen J. Anderson, Mark Kennedy, Carole Holliday, Gaetan & Paul Brizzi,  Don Dougherty, Ed Gombert, Don Hall, Kevin Harkey, Burny Mattinson, Frank Nissen,
John Norton, Jeff Snow,
Chris Ure, Mark Walton, Stevie Wemers,
Kelly Wightman & John Ramirez
Story/Supervising Animator: "Adult Tarzan" - Glen Keane
Story/Superivsing Animator: "Terk" - Michael Surrey
Story/Additional Storyboards/Supervising Animator:
"Clayton" - Randy Haycock
Screenplay - Tab Murphy, Bob Tzudiker &
Noni White
Producer - Bonnie Arnold
Art Directors - Daniel St. Pierre &
Pixote Hunt (Uncredited)
Artistic Coordinator - Fraser Maclean
Story/Story Artistic Supervisor - Brian Pimental
Character Designers/Visual Development Artists -
Chen-Yi Chang, Guy Deel, Peter DeSeve,
Vance Gerry, Jean Gillmore, Ian Gooding,
Joe Grant, Brian Jowers, Buck Lewis,
Rick Maki, Hank Mayo, Tina Price, Jeff Ranjo,
Harald Siepermann, John Watkiss &
Rowland B. Wilson
Character Designer/Visual Development Artist/
Supervising Animator: "Tantor" - Sergio Pablos 
Supervising Animator: "Young & Baby Tarzan" -
John Ripa
Supervising Animator: "Jane" - Ken Duncan
Supervising Animator: "Porter" - Dave Burgess
Supervising Animator: "Kala" - Russ Edmonds
Supervising Animator: "Kerchak" and "Baboons &
Baby Baboons" - Bruce W. Smith
Supervising Animator: "Captain & Thugs" -
T. Daniel Hofstedt
Supervising Animator: "Ape Family" - Jay Jackson
Supervising Animator: "Flynt & Margo" - Chris Wahl
Supervising Animator; "Sabor" - Dominique Monfery
Background Supervisor - Doug Ball
Layout Supervisor - Jean-Christophe Poulain
Film Editor - Gregory Perler
Songs - Phil Collins
Music - Mark Mancina


Awards

2000 Academy Awards
Best Original Song "You'll Be in My Heart" -
Phil Collins (Won)


Review
To coincide with the Blu-ray and DVD release of 'John Carter', here's a review that I had done for Disney's 'TARZAN'. Quite exotic this movie is, 'TARZAN' was possibly a magnificent animated adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel that Disney has made. I liked the part where Tarzan slides down the logs. I also found the scene where the main villain meets his fate near the end of the movie to be very disturbing. The film boasts impressive 2D and computer animation, humour, a voice cast of Tony Goldwyn, Rosie O'Donnell, Minnie Driver, Brian Blessed, Glenn Close and Lance Henriksen. There is the terrific score by Mark Mancina and songs by pop-star Phil Collins such as "Two Worlds" and the heartwarming "You'll Be in My Heart".

While 'TARZAN' was almost an animated musical, it was in fact, the first of the two Disney movies to based on Burroughs' creations with the latest being 'John Carter'. It does the original Tarzan story justice and is a great 2D movie.

Star rating: (4/5) Good Movie

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