Tarzan has the best soundtrack of any Disney movie

Rating: 10/10 (30 September 2014)

Tarzan, gives a behind the scenes look at a family of gorillas who adopt a young human boy and raise him as one of them. The film is accompanied by the soundtrack combining the talents of Phil Collins and Mark Mancina. Each of the fourteen songs in the movie build the intensity of the moment. This movie is great because even though something tragic happened to the main character he grows up loved by animals he looks nothing like. Kala's songs and words prove that she deeply loves Tarzan and will protect him from any harm. Other than the emotional moments, the soundtrack benefits the fight scenes. Beginning with Sabor attacking Tarzan's birth parents, to Sabor attack Kerchak and Tarzan, and finally Tarzan and the other gorillas defending their home from Clayton. Collins and Mancina do a marvelous job of keeping the attention and emotions of these two kinds of scenes. The soundtrack to Tarzan is the best soundtrack Disney has ever made.
Love in the gorilla family is expresses with facial expressions and songs. Kala sings a song to Tarzan on his first night in the jungle to stop him from crying. She says "I will protect you from all around you. I will be here don't you cry" (Collins). She establishes her motherly position over Tarzan from the night she brings him to the nest to the day she tells him he will always be her son. Even though clearly upset, and Mancina's soft background melodies infer this, Kala knows her son will be better off living with his own species. Love is even shown in between the young gorillas and Tantor in the "Trashin' the Camp" song. This song, even though it is destructive in the camp, shows how the bonds in the family are very strong. Turk, voiced by Rosie O'Donnell, shows her leadership skills as she orchestrates the hilarious tune. She becomes very emotional when Tarzan leaves too quickly for her and Tantor to say goodbye. Anytime there were sad moments in the film, Mancina produced soft melodies to bring tears to any listener's eyes.
Each of the fight scenes in Tarzan are intensely accompanied by a suspenseful tune from Mancina. In the opening scene when Tarzan's parent's boat crashed, they rowed safety to shore to find a place to build a home. Upon finishing their tree house, Sabor found them and left Tarzan abandoned in the rubble of his new home. The ambush scene made viewers jump with switches in the melodies with each teeth snap and claw swipe. The next major fight was between Kerchak and Tarzan against Sabor. Sabor injures Kerchak and Tarzan must save the leader who never really approved of him being in their family. He loses his spear head and has to dodge the massive claws of Sabor as they bust through tree roots and vines. The music behind this scene intensifies with each close encounter Tarzan has with death by Sabor. Tarzan does manage to retrieve his knife and when he stabs Sabor to death, the music soothes. The final fight scene Mancina scores is dark and frightening. This mood is set because the nest was attacked at night and the gorillas did not know what was happening. Clayton set fire to the nest and began trying to trap all of the gorillas to bring them back to England for money. When each fight comes to an end, Mancina and Collins calm the mood to relieve the viewer's knowing that Tarzan won and will be okay. Tarzan establishes his dominance after each of the fight scenes leading up to becoming the rightful leader of the family in the end. He manages to live through Sabor's original attack, when Sabor comes back again, Tarzan kills him, and when Clayton's men destroy their nesting grounds with fire, he traps them in cages and rescues his gorilla family.