TheRetroCritic

In 2016, Warner Bros. released The Legend Of Tarzan , an attempt to give Edgar Rice Burroughs' classic character a proper blockbuster franchise with Alexander Skarsgård as Tarzan and Margot Robbie as Jane Porter. The film was a domestic flop despite performing quite well abroad. Picking up after Tarzan has already been accepted back into civilised society, the film then briefly flashes back to the character's familiar origins (being raised by apes etc.) a few times before sending him back home to the African jungle where his beloved Jane is captured by a cruel Belgian diamond hunter. Yes, this is one of those super-serious gritty reboots that attempts to introduce us to a well-known (yet revamped) hero but also tell a brand new story by working as some kind of sequel to a never-made film. The idea being that people who are very familiar with Tarzan and expect a more adult take on the character like 1984's Greystoke: The Legend Of Tarzan, Lord Of The Apes could enjoy t

Tarzan may not be the one Disney film people rave about constantly and it tends to be completely forgotten these days with the company's CGI efforts being such a huge hit everywhere. Even nostalgia-wise, the film is left in a kind of no man's land between Mulan and Toy Story 2 . My Disney loyalty, when it came to the animated features, unfortunately ended post-Mulan, which is odd since I loved the latter. I wouldn't sit through or fall in love with another Disney flick until finally seeing Toy Story years after everybody else. This thankfully kick-started my interest in those movies again and I started going back to watch all the good stuff I'd missed. Honestly, Tarzan was one of those. Like Hercules , I never thought I'd have any interest in it at the time: nothing about it sounded or looked all that interesting to me. I was an idiot. It's exactly that kind of attitude which made me miss The Emperor's New Groove back in the day. What I found