The Legend of Tarzan

Alexander Skarsgard stars as the vine-swinger raised by apes, alongside Margot Robbie, Samuel L. Jackson and Christoph Waltz, in director David Yates' new take on the Edgar Rice Burroughs classic.

3097d ago

The Legend of Tarzan has a whole lot of fun, big-screen things going for it — adventure, romance, natural landscapes, digital animals and oceans of rippling handsome man-muscle. Its sweep and easy pleasures come from its old-fashioned escapades — it’s one long dash through the jungle by foot, train, boat and swinging vine — but what makes it more enjoyable than other recycled stories of this type is that the filmmakers have given Tarzan a thoughtful, imperfect makeover.

3097d ago

The Legend of Tarzan has a whole lot of fun, big-screen things going for it — adventure, romance, natural landscapes, digital animals and oceans of rippling handsome man-muscle. Its sweep and easy pleasures come from its old-fashioned escapades — it’s one long dash through the jungle by foot, train, boat and swinging vine — but what makes it more enjoyable than other recycled stories of this type is that the filmmakers have given Tarzan a thoughtful, imperfect makeover.

3097d ago

Alexander Skarsgard stars as the vine-swinger raised by apes, alongside Margot Robbie, Samuel L. Jackson and Christoph Waltz, in director David Yates' new take on the Edgar Rice Burroughs classic.

3097d ago

The Legend of Tarzan has a whole lot of fun, big-screen things going for it — adventure, romance, natural landscapes, digital animals and oceans of rippling handsome man-muscle. Its sweep and easy pleasures come from its old-fashioned escapades — it’s one long dash through the jungle by foot, train, boat and swinging vine — but what makes it more enjoyable than other recycled stories of this type is that the filmmakers have given Tarzan a thoughtful, imperfect makeover.

3097d ago

He Tarzan. She Jane. Me pretty sure you heard this one before. Approximately a million yards of celluloid have already been dedicated to the character Edgar Rice Burroughs created more than a century ago, portraying fiction’s most famous gorilla whisperer as everything from the lunky mute of the silent-movie era to the loinclothed Renaissance man of Disney’s late-‘90s animated blockbuster.

3097d ago

He Tarzan. She Jane. Me pretty sure you heard this one before. Approximately a million yards of celluloid have already been dedicated to the character Edgar Rice Burroughs created more than a century ago, portraying fiction’s most famous gorilla whisperer as everything from the lunky mute of the silent-movie era to the loinclothed Renaissance man of Disney’s late-‘90s animated blockbuster.

3097d ago

He Tarzan. She Jane. Me pretty sure you heard this one before. Approximately a million yards of celluloid have already been dedicated to the character Edgar Rice Burroughs created more than a century ago, portraying fiction’s most famous gorilla whisperer as everything from the lunky mute of the silent-movie era to the loinclothed Renaissance man of Disney’s late-‘90s animated blockbuster.

3097d ago

He Tarzan. She Jane. Me pretty sure you heard this one before. Approximately a million yards of celluloid have already been dedicated to the character Edgar Rice Burroughs created more than a century ago, portraying fiction’s most famous gorilla whisperer as everything from the lunky mute of the silent-movie era to the loinclothed Renaissance man of Disney’s late-‘90s animated blockbuster.

3097d ago

The Legend Of Tarzan doesn’t give its hero enough action.

3097d ago

The Legend Of Tarzan doesn’t give its hero enough action.

3097d ago

The Legend Of Tarzan doesn’t give its hero enough action.

3097d ago

The Legend Of Tarzan doesn’t give its hero enough action.

3097d ago

There are a dozen films fighting for supremacy in Warner Brothers' The Legend Of Tarzan, and there’s no clear winner to the war.

3097d ago

There are a dozen films fighting for supremacy in Warner Brothers' The Legend Of Tarzan, and there’s no clear winner to the war.

3097d ago

There are a dozen films fighting for supremacy in Warner Brothers' The Legend Of Tarzan, and there’s no clear winner to the war.

3097d ago

There are a dozen films fighting for supremacy in Warner Brothers' The Legend Of Tarzan, and there’s no clear winner to the war.

3097d ago

The King of the Jungle swings back into action in this update on Edgar Rice Burroughs' classic hero.

3097d ago

The King of the Jungle swings back into action in this update on Edgar Rice Burroughs' classic hero.

3097d ago

The King of the Jungle swings back into action in this update on Edgar Rice Burroughs' classic hero.

3097d ago

The King of the Jungle swings back into action in this update on Edgar Rice Burroughs' classic hero.

3097d ago

At last, a Hollywood reimagining with a point. David Yates's two-fisted pulp-studies spree The Legend of Tarzan doesn't just update Edgar Rice Burroughs's whiteboy jungle-bro for our age of heightened sensitivities and bit rates.

3097d ago

At last, a Hollywood reimagining with a point. David Yates's two-fisted pulp-studies spree The Legend of Tarzan doesn't just update Edgar Rice Burroughs's whiteboy jungle-bro for our age of heightened sensitivities and bit rates.

3097d ago

Constant flashbacks to Tarzan’s childhood, and cross-cuts between the actions of Capt. Rom (who has taken Jane hostage) and Tarzan and Williams in chase, make the narrative more chock-a-block than necessary.

3097d ago

Constant flashbacks to Tarzan’s childhood, and cross-cuts between the actions of Capt. Rom (who has taken Jane hostage) and Tarzan and Williams in chase, make the narrative more chock-a-block than necessary.

3097d ago

At last, a Hollywood reimagining with a point. David Yates's two-fisted pulp-studies spree The Legend of Tarzan doesn't just update Edgar Rice Burroughs's whiteboy jungle-bro for our age of heightened sensitivities and bit rates.

3097d ago

Constant flashbacks to Tarzan’s childhood, and cross-cuts between the actions of Capt. Rom (who has taken Jane hostage) and Tarzan and Williams in chase, make the narrative more chock-a-block than necessary.

3097d ago

Constant flashbacks to Tarzan’s childhood, and cross-cuts between the actions of Capt. Rom (who has taken Jane hostage) and Tarzan and Williams in chase, make the narrative more chock-a-block than necessary.

3097d ago

At last, a Hollywood reimagining with a point. David Yates's two-fisted pulp-studies spree The Legend of Tarzan doesn't just update Edgar Rice Burroughs's whiteboy jungle-bro for our age of heightened sensitivities and bit rates.

3097d ago

‘The Legend Of Tarzan’ Starring Alexander Skarsgard, Margot Robbie & Christoph Waltz is s swing and a miss

3097d ago

‘The Legend Of Tarzan’ Starring Alexander Skarsgard, Margot Robbie & Christoph Waltz is s swing and a miss

3097d ago

‘The Legend Of Tarzan’ Starring Alexander Skarsgard, Margot Robbie & Christoph Waltz is s swing and a miss

3097d ago

‘The Legend Of Tarzan’ Starring Alexander Skarsgard, Margot Robbie & Christoph Waltz is s swing and a miss

3097d ago

The set pieces are fun, if not as spectacular as those in Jon Favreau's adaptation of Kipling's similar The Jungle Book. And the plot moves at a nice pace.

3097d ago

This Tarzan is no king of swing.

3097d ago

Its theme of white man as savior of black Africans is, to say the least, highly anachronistic in these days and times.

3097d ago

The set pieces are fun, if not as spectacular as those in Jon Favreau's adaptation of Kipling's similar The Jungle Book. And the plot moves at a nice pace.

3097d ago

Action saga feels like another by-the-numbers attempt at reviving a familiar hero (see “Carter, John” and “Ranger, Lone”)

3097d ago

This Tarzan is no king of swing.

3097d ago

Its theme of white man as savior of black Africans is, to say the least, highly anachronistic in these days and times.

3097d ago

The set pieces are fun, if not as spectacular as those in Jon Favreau's adaptation of Kipling's similar The Jungle Book. And the plot moves at a nice pace.

3097d ago

Action saga feels like another by-the-numbers attempt at reviving a familiar hero (see “Carter, John” and “Ranger, Lone”)

3097d ago

“The Legend of Tarzan” is several unpretentious cuts above the pompous, leaden “Greystoke” of over thirty years ago. (I’m ignoring the 1998 “Tarzan and the Lost City” because nobody even saw it, let alone talked about it.)

3097d ago

Action saga feels like another by-the-numbers attempt at reviving a familiar hero (see “Carter, John” and “Ranger, Lone”)

3097d ago

This Tarzan is no king of swing.

3097d ago

“The Legend of Tarzan” is several unpretentious cuts above the pompous, leaden “Greystoke” of over thirty years ago. (I’m ignoring the 1998 “Tarzan and the Lost City” because nobody even saw it, let alone talked about it.)

3097d ago

The set pieces are fun, if not as spectacular as those in Jon Favreau's adaptation of Kipling's similar The Jungle Book. And the plot moves at a nice pace.

3097d ago

“The Legend of Tarzan” is several unpretentious cuts above the pompous, leaden “Greystoke” of over thirty years ago. (I’m ignoring the 1998 “Tarzan and the Lost City” because nobody even saw it, let alone talked about it.)

3097d ago

“The Legend of Tarzan” is several unpretentious cuts above the pompous, leaden “Greystoke” of over thirty years ago. (I’m ignoring the 1998 “Tarzan and the Lost City” because nobody even saw it, let alone talked about it.)

3097d ago

Action saga feels like another by-the-numbers attempt at reviving a familiar hero (see “Carter, John” and “Ranger, Lone”)

3097d ago

This Tarzan is no king of swing.

3097d ago

Its theme of white man as savior of black Africans is, to say the least, highly anachronistic in these days and times.

3097d ago

Its theme of white man as savior of black Africans is, to say the least, highly anachronistic in these days and times.

3097d ago

Margot Robbie comes out swinging, but The Legend of Tarzan is tame.

3097d ago

'True Blood' hunk Alexander Skarsgård loses the loincloth in favor of a pair of fancy pants in this ponderous attempt to turn Tarzan into a 21st-century superhero.

3097d ago

Belgian explorer Leon Rom (Christoph Waltz) lures Lord John Clayton (Alexander Skarsgård) — better known as Tarzan, Lord Of The Apes — back to Africa. Rom’s evil plan? To capture Tarzan and deliver him to warlord Chief Mbonga (Djimon Hounsou). It won’t be quite that simple…

3097d ago

Belgian explorer Leon Rom (Christoph Waltz) lures Lord John Clayton (Alexander Skarsgård) — better known as Tarzan, Lord Of The Apes — back to Africa. Rom’s evil plan? To capture Tarzan and deliver him to warlord Chief Mbonga (Djimon Hounsou). It won’t be quite that simple…

3097d ago

Margot Robbie comes out swinging, but The Legend of Tarzan is tame.

3097d ago

Belgian explorer Leon Rom (Christoph Waltz) lures Lord John Clayton (Alexander Skarsgård) — better known as Tarzan, Lord Of The Apes — back to Africa. Rom’s evil plan? To capture Tarzan and deliver him to warlord Chief Mbonga (Djimon Hounsou). It won’t be quite that simple…

3097d ago

Committed performances aren’t enough to save this film from uncomfortable colonial optics, uninspiring CGI and tedious plotlines.

3097d ago

Committed performances aren’t enough to save this film from uncomfortable colonial optics, uninspiring CGI and tedious plotlines.

3097d ago

Margot Robbie comes out swinging, but The Legend of Tarzan is tame.

3097d ago

'True Blood' hunk Alexander Skarsgård loses the loincloth in favor of a pair of fancy pants in this ponderous attempt to turn Tarzan into a 21st-century superhero.

3097d ago

Committed performances aren’t enough to save this film from uncomfortable colonial optics, uninspiring CGI and tedious plotlines.

3097d ago

'True Blood' hunk Alexander Skarsgård loses the loincloth in favor of a pair of fancy pants in this ponderous attempt to turn Tarzan into a 21st-century superhero.

3097d ago

Committed performances aren’t enough to save this film from uncomfortable colonial optics, uninspiring CGI and tedious plotlines.

3097d ago

'True Blood' hunk Alexander Skarsgård loses the loincloth in favor of a pair of fancy pants in this ponderous attempt to turn Tarzan into a 21st-century superhero.

3097d ago

Margot Robbie comes out swinging, but The Legend of Tarzan is tame.

3097d ago

Belgian explorer Leon Rom (Christoph Waltz) lures Lord John Clayton (Alexander Skarsgård) — better known as Tarzan, Lord Of The Apes — back to Africa. Rom’s evil plan? To capture Tarzan and deliver him to warlord Chief Mbonga (Djimon Hounsou). It won’t be quite that simple…

3097d ago

‘The Legend of Tarzan’ withers on the vine.

3097d ago

‘The Legend of Tarzan’ withers on the vine.

3097d ago

‘The Legend of Tarzan’ withers on the vine.

3097d ago

‘The Legend of Tarzan’ withers on the vine.

3097d ago

The Legend of Tarzan, for all its anticolonialist posturing and eminently attractive co-stars, has a dead soul.

3097d ago

The Legend of Tarzan, for all its anticolonialist posturing and eminently attractive co-stars, has a dead soul.

3097d ago

The Legend of Tarzan, for all its anticolonialist posturing and eminently attractive co-stars, has a dead soul.

3097d ago

The Legend of Tarzan, for all its anticolonialist posturing and eminently attractive co-stars, has a dead soul.

3097d ago