Tarzan

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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 child is ...
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Overview

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 child is discovered by a gorilla named Kala voice of Glenn Close, mate of Kerchak voice of Lance Henriksen, the leader of the tribe of apes. While Kerchak is taken aback by the foundling and would just as soon leave him in the jungle, Kala's maternal nature is stirred. Kala and Kerchak take the baby with them, naming him Tarzan and raising him among their own. Although Tarzan voice of Tony Goldwyn grows up painfully aware that he's different from the apes, he comes to love and respect the gorillas and learns their ways, while they accept him into their tribe as he grows to adulthood. However, Tarzan's idyllic life in the jungle is changed forever by the arrival of Professor Porter voice of Nigel Hawthorne, his daughter Jane voice of Minnie Driver, and their guide, a hunter named Clayton voice of Brian Blessed. The Professor and Jane have arrived in Africa to study the wildlife in its natural habitat, although Clayton would prefer to bag as many trophies as he can. When the explorers encounter Tarzan, they at first think they've discovered the missing link, although soon realize that he's as human as they are. Tarzan finds himself torn between his desire to be with his own kind and the new, unfamiliar emotions that he feels for Jane and his loyalties to the gorilla family that raised him -- especially since Clayton sees the apes not as friends but as prey. Dominated by fast-paced jungle action sequences, Tarzan also features voices by Rosie O'Donnell and Wayne Knight, as well as new songs by Phil Collins.
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Special Features

Closed Caption; "Terk's Tree-Surfing Challenge" -- three all-new games; "DisneyPedia: Living in the Jungle"; Deleted scenes including alternate opening; Filmmakers' audio commentary; All-new music video featuring the wildly popular Everlife; Music videos featuring Phill Collins and *NSYNC
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Editorial Reviews

Barnes & Noble - Donald Liebenson
The world of this Tarzan pops as it never has before in this gazillionth film version, thanks to a groundbreaking “Deep Canvas” animation process that creates lush jungle environments. Add in the ape-man’s extreme surfing moves -- inspired by veteran Disney animator Glen Keane’s skateboarding son -- and Phil Collins’s muscular score, and Tarzan ranks among the best animated films of its age. Tarzan followed in the footsteps of Hercules and Mulan -- its hero likewise trying to find his place in the world. Orphaned and raised by a gorilla family, Tarzan (voiced by Tony Goldwyn) is determined to be “the best ape ever,” but like Hercules, he suffers the pains of awkward adolescence. He initially does not quite fit in, and the other apes even call him “the hairless wonder.” But his adoptive mother, Kala (Glenn Close), reassures him, “Forget what you see -- what do you feel?” The superb voice ensemble includes Minnie Driver as the spirited and independent Jane, Nigel Hawthorne as Jane's scientist father, and Lance Henrikson as Kerchack, the silverback patriarch who does not accept Tarzan. Wayne Knight, as Tarzan’s pachyderm pal, Tantor, and Rosie O’Donnell as a wisecracking ape, Terk, delivers the comic relief. Terk’s “Trashing the Camp” is a scat-singing showstopper; and the power ballad “You’ll Be in My Heart” earned an Oscar on its way to pop ubiquity. The 2005 Special Edition contains a new-to-DVD music video of “Strangers Like Me” by Everlife, as well as an alternate opening and deleted scenes, “DisneyPedia” animal segments, and three games.
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In an effort to take its familiar animation style one technological step further, Disney pioneered an effect called "deep canvas" for its big-screen version of Tarzan. The enthralling effect, which tricks the eye into seeing Tarzan's high-speed travels through the jungle in three dimensions, is just one reason to watch this surprisingly affecting tale of a misfit working to reconcile his differences from both apes and humans. At heart, it's an action movie, and a pretty hip one at that -- Tarzan's motions, as he surfs along serpentine tree limbs and hurtles through the vines, are modeled on those of skateboarders. Plus it has a handful of clever set pieces in which no less than a vicious tiger, a sadistic hunter, and a herd of stampeding elephants threaten the safety of the gorillas. Many of these are funny, too -- when the elephants debate whether a prankster Tarzan swimming in their drinking hole might be a piranha, one of them points out that it couldn't be because the piranha is indigenous to South America. But in a way that only Disney can manage, these moments alternate with Tarzan's genuinely touching attempts to earn his keep, such that when he lets out his trademark blood-curdling yell after vanquishing a foe, the swell of pride is contagious. The vocal work is unspectacular, outside of Minnie Driver as a teasingly proper Jane and Wayne Knight as a neurotic elephant. The film could benefit from a slightly smaller dose of Rosie O'Donnell's wisecracking. But the most visually advanced film that Disney had produced at the time is also one of its most loveable, and even Phil Collins' dutifully inspirational score gets swept up in the general joy.
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 10/18/2005
  • UPC: 786936264524
  • Original Release: 1999

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  • Source: Walt Disney Video
  • Region Code: 1
  • Aspect Ratio: Vistavision (1.66:1)
  • Presentation: Wide Screen
  • Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround
  • Language: English, Français, Español
  • Time: 1:28:00
  • Format: DVD
  • Sales rank: 3,626

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Brian Blessed Voice Only
Glenn Close Voice Only
Minnie Driver Voice Only
Tony Goldwyn Voice Only
Nigel Hawthorne Voice Only
Lance Henriksen Voice Only
Wayne Knight Voice Only
Alex D. Linz Voice Only
Rosie O'Donnell Voice Only
Technical Credits
Chris Buck Director
Kevin Lima Director
Bonnie Arnold Producer
Phil Collins Songwriter
Jay Jackson Animator
Glen Keane Animator
Ruth Lambert Casting
Mark Mancina Score Composer
Tab Murphy Screenwriter
David Reynolds Screenwriter
Bob Tzudiker Screenwriter
Mark Walton Original Story
Noni White Screenwriter
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Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Tarzan
1. Main Title/"Two Worlds" [3:22]
2. Kala's Discovery [2:46]
3. A Narrow Escape [2:08]
4. Adopted [2:43]
5. "You'll Be in My Heart" [1:37]
6. Young Tarzan [1:41]
7. Pest Control [2:25]
8. Baby Tantor [1:15]
9. Piranha! [:57]
10. Outcast [1:40]
11. Hand to Hand [2:00]
12. "Son of Man!" [2:47]
13. Monkeying Around [:53]
14. Sabor Attacks [4:19]
15. Explores [3:08]
16. The Baby Baboon [1:01]
17. Tarzan to the Rescue [2:37]
18. Treetop Introductions [4:05]
19. "Trashin' the Camp" [4:04]
20. Jane's Rant [1:54]
21. Tarzan Confronts Kerchak [1:00]
22. Tarzan Drops In [1:40]
23. "Strangers Like Me" [3:53]
24. The Boat Arrives [2:43]
25. Distracting Kerchak [1:01]
26. Meeting Tarzan's Family [3:36]
27. Tarzan Defies Kerchak [1:53]
28. The Truth [3:50]
29. Clayton's Trap [2:05]
30. "We Got a Boat to Catch" [2:22]
31. Ambush [3:13]
32. A Fight to the Finish [1:41]
33. "My Son" [2:30]
34. Goodbyes [2:22]
35. Our Family [:55]
36. End Credits [5:56]
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Menu

Disc #1 -- Tarzan
   Play
   Scene Selection
   Bonus Features
      Deleted Scenes
         Introduction
         Alternate Opening
         Terk Finds the Human's Camp
         Riverboat Fight
         Play All
      Music and More
         Music Video: "You'll Be in My Heart" by Phil Collins
         Music Video: "Strangers Like Me" by Phil Collins
         Music Video: "Strangers Like Me" by Everlife
         "Trashin' the Camp" Studio Session With Phil Collins and 'N Sync
         Play All
      Games and Activities
         Terk's Tree Surfing Challenge: Play All
         Terk's Tree Surfing Challenge: Jungle Memory
         Terk's Tree Surfing Challenge: Banana Round Up
         Terk's Tree Surfing Challenge: Clayton's Trap
         DisneyPedia: Living in the Jungle
      Backstage Disney
         Audio Commentary: Bonnie Arnold, Producer; Chris Buck, Director; Kevin Lima, Director - On
         Audio Commentary: Bonnie Arnold, Producer; Chris Buck, Director; Kevin Lima, Director - Off
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      Audio Options
         English 5.1 Surround Sound
         English 5.0 Original Theatrical Mix
         French 5.1 Surround Sound
         Spanish 5.1 Surround Sound
      Captions & Subtitles
         Captions: English for the Hearing Impaired
         Subtitles: French
         Subtitles: Spanish
         Subtitles: None
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  • Posted October 1, 2010

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    great movie!

    This movie is great! This is an awesome movie for kids an parents to watch together! The music was very catchy and worked well with the whole feeling of the movie. I also loved the fact that the scientist and his daughter were very against hurting the animals! When they found Tarzan they taught him all about our world, the human world. That was one of my favorite parts because they not only showed Tarzan these things, but they also showed the kids that are watching the movie these things! One word of caution though. In the end the way that they kill Clayton, the main villain can be quite scary! I don't know if the kids will be scared, but I certainly was a little freaked out.

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  • Posted October 1, 2010

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    Beautiful

    Disney never disappoints and always knows how to deliver, so it's no suprise that Tarzan is a masterpiece. I loved this movie when I was little, and then forgot about it until a couple of months ago when my little brother was watching it on Disney Channel. I watched it and fell in love with it all over again. Tarzan offers exciting animations and fun songs for kids, but also has much to give to older people (as in people over 10, haha). The soundtrack, most of it by Phil Collins, is beautiful and hearbreaking, which seems silly to say for a Disney movie. I fell in love with the way they had Tarzan and Jane's relationship progress and hold this movie close to my heart. It might be a little scary for little, little kids in some parts, but that would be this movie's only drawback. :)

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 1, 2010

    Tarzan

    This really was a pretty good movie and love the songs by Phil Collins. When the mother gorilla fought the cheetah or whatever it is (sorry I haven't this film in a long time) to save the human baby that was intense. Its the story of tarzan who's raised by gorillas and meets humans and especially jane.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 26, 2002

    Great Movie-But do I really have to say it?

    Of almost all of Disney's new movies Tarzan is one of my favorites. If you haven't seen this movie, all I can say is where have you been all your life? One of the best things about this movie is the music. Great music that really gets you into the movie ever time you watch it. The story is really good too. My favorite parts are mostly when Tarzan is a young boy. Great flick(movie).

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