Review of Tarzan

This is a mess of a movie, the real problem is the animation style that just looks like plastic people. Not the Disney story, but no blood, or death is really ever shown so it might as well be. The water physics are good, but as soon as you add the characters to that water it all goes out the window. The world is beautiful, but as soon as you put most of these plastic people into it it just makes them look more like dolls in a play set that is kind of mixed up. The main story is good, and some of the moving shots are really well done. I found myself on more than one occasion really impressed with 2 or 3 seconds here or there, just not often enough to make up for the problems. There are glaring collision issues that are never fixed, and there are entire scenes that feel like they have not been finished which really makes this production suffer. Now there are also issues with the story that are incredibly stupid, and any child will take these things as insults to them directly. Take just one example as the area that Tarzan, and Jane enter around midway through the story that the narrator (who is uncredited, and sounds like Nathan Fillion)describes as having never been seen by man, the entrance to which is overlooked by 2 large carved heads, and there are stairs through out. There really is something here though when you dig down below the awful look of the movie, and the terrible way in which the entire production was handled that you have not seen, some really amazing shots of Tarzan traveling through the forest, and other motion shots which I really did Enjoy watching. However most people will find this whole thing to feel out of date, and 2 years too late. Hard to recommend for anyone other than a true fan of animation, or Tarzan fans who like seeing new takes on the Greystoke (ala Stark Industries) story lines.