This film starts with Tarzan (voiced by Harrison Chad ) already adopted by a childless ape, Karla (voiced by Glenn Close), and his adventures to find his purpose and identity.
June 7, 2005 (Press Release) --
Tarzan II
Buena Vista Home Entertainment / 2005 / 72 Minutes / G
Street date: June 14, 2005
So what happened when Tarzan was a kid? This film starts with Tarzan (voiced by Harrison Chad ) already adopted by a childless ape, Karla (voiced by Glenn Close), and his adventures to find his purpose and identity. Rampant with bad timing, Tarzan, puts his ape family in a dangerous accident and, though they all narrowly escape, he runs away feeling ashamed. A mysteriously evil “Zugor” (voiced by George Carlin) meets up with Tarzan and Zugor begrudgingly strikes up a friendship with the earnest Tarzan. However, some ostracized gorillas discover Zugor's secret, and provide a threat. Can Tarzan come to the rescue of reconciliation?
While 1999's Tarzan was a hit, this film is going directly to video, so does that mean it's a cheap knock off? Not necessarily. The talents of the voices are back, as are some rousing songs from Phil Collins, a solid orchestral score by Mark Mancina and Dave Metzger, and pleasant animation and CGI integrated well, though not perfectly. The young Tarzan rip-snorts around with other gorilla youngsters and has some fun adventures, but the film does have an amusing plot going on. It's not groundbreaking or terribly original, but the theme of one tearing away from a family to find mentoring with a semi-stranger is kind of interesting.
But it's the bumbling, villain ensemble who provides the most amount of laughs. This includes two large, dumb-headed, ostracized gorillas trailing a manipulative, albeit smaller mother is quite funny, and provides most of the conflict. However, Tarzan's constant bad timing begins to paint him as very annoying, but that's the price to pay for conflict and Tarzan's efforts to resolve and rescue things, I suppose. The film is fairly innocuous and very light hearted. So it's hard to be overly critical about it. The cover art is really a lot like the film and there aren't too many surprises. While the target audiences are youngsters who will probably enjoy it, the film will probably provide the necessary entertainment for adults who might enjoy its economical 72 minutes (about 67 minutes without credits). It's painfully obvious that Disney executives are trying to make an easy, built-in-audience buck instead of trying to make a fresh, new animated feature (sigh). But the director and cast put their full effort into making an interesting story and mildly succeed.
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Buena Vista Home Entertainment / 2005 / 72 Minutes / G
Street date: June 14, 2005
So what happened when Tarzan was a kid? This film starts with Tarzan (voiced by Harrison Chad ) already adopted by a childless ape, Karla (voiced by Glenn Close), and his adventures to find his purpose and identity. Rampant with bad timing, Tarzan, puts his ape family in a dangerous accident and, though they all narrowly escape, he runs away feeling ashamed. A mysteriously evil “Zugor” (voiced by George Carlin) meets up with Tarzan and Zugor begrudgingly strikes up a friendship with the earnest Tarzan. However, some ostracized gorillas discover Zugor's secret, and provide a threat. Can Tarzan come to the rescue of reconciliation?
While 1999's Tarzan was a hit, this film is going directly to video, so does that mean it's a cheap knock off? Not necessarily. The talents of the voices are back, as are some rousing songs from Phil Collins, a solid orchestral score by Mark Mancina and Dave Metzger, and pleasant animation and CGI integrated well, though not perfectly. The young Tarzan rip-snorts around with other gorilla youngsters and has some fun adventures, but the film does have an amusing plot going on. It's not groundbreaking or terribly original, but the theme of one tearing away from a family to find mentoring with a semi-stranger is kind of interesting.
But it's the bumbling, villain ensemble who provides the most amount of laughs. This includes two large, dumb-headed, ostracized gorillas trailing a manipulative, albeit smaller mother is quite funny, and provides most of the conflict. However, Tarzan's constant bad timing begins to paint him as very annoying, but that's the price to pay for conflict and Tarzan's efforts to resolve and rescue things, I suppose. The film is fairly innocuous and very light hearted. So it's hard to be overly critical about it. The cover art is really a lot like the film and there aren't too many surprises. While the target audiences are youngsters who will probably enjoy it, the film will probably provide the necessary entertainment for adults who might enjoy its economical 72 minutes (about 67 minutes without credits). It's painfully obvious that Disney executives are trying to make an easy, built-in-audience buck instead of trying to make a fresh, new animated feature (sigh). But the director and cast put their full effort into making an interesting story and mildly succeed.
The Video: How Does The Disc Look?
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