Same Disney pap, Different Day

Rating: 5/10 (12 June 2000)

It's deja vu all over again. For the sake of being another Disney movie, Tarzan easily falls into the fallacy of not being different enough from whatever Mouse-backed cookie cutter cartoon that I was told to see last year. I couldn't bring myself to shell out over $7 to see this movie at the theaters, but was more than happy to borrow it for free. When life dictated that I had to leave in the middle of it, I felt no regret that I missed the second half of the movie. Don't get me wrong, Tarzan was a very nice movie. Standing on its own, it would present a worthwhile entertainment option. But unfortunately after catching some of the other assembly line productions that Disney's churned out over the last ten years, you can't escape the overwhelming sense that you're spending 2 hours in the grip of the world's greatest merchandising machine. Tarzan folds not due to any faults as a movie, but under the massive weight of all of the junk poised to hit the stores before the movie ever debuted.