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congo in the bongo

posted 18 years ago by dubdub_80
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Thank you Hollywood. Yet another movie classic utterly ruined by a cheap, shallow, effect-heavy and redundant remake. The original "Tarzan" was an intelligent and thought-provoking movie with a very clear message. It was a movie that focused almost entirely on dialogue, which sounds very dull but was in fact very interesting.

This movie, on the other hand, seems to have done away with pretty much ALL the dialogues. Instead of a great movie we get an incredibly stupid two hour chase movie. Dialogue has been reduced to a mere minimum, character interaction and development are non-existent and most of the time it's extremely hard to figure out what's going on. Instead, we get a bunch of pointless action scenes, some marginally funny one-liners and some very hollow quasi-intelligent conversations.

The only thing worth mentioning about this movie is that it looks absolutely fantastic. However, this does not distract from the fact that "Tarzan the Ape Man" is a very shallow and simplistic movie, filled with paper-thin characters, stupid dialogue and a nearly non-existent plot.

Oh yeah, the ending did not make ANY SENSE WHATSOEVER.

* out of **** stars, mainly for the visuals

[–] haxan-1 17 years ago

In the end, Jane abandons civilization because of her father's death. She has no further ties and chooses to venture into the wild with Tarzan. Many of her scenes involve her physically relating to him because she isn't the traditional Victorian woman strapped into a corset and forever fainting or afraid that her dress will get ripped off.