Film Review – Tarzan

There have been many adaptations of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s classic 1914 novel, “Tarzan of the Apes,” but few have commenced the story in space. “Tarzan,” a German motion-capture animated endeavor, reaches into the galaxy to set-up its take on iconic material, trying its best to separate itself not only from a legion of similar productions, but also the last cartoon effort, 1999’s “Tarzan,” a Walt Disney Animation enterprise. The change in scenery is strange, but it’s the least of the oddities contained within this earnest but underwhelming movie, which searches for a way to join the famous feral boy to a sci-fi plot while still maintaining a connection to all the famous elements that have endured and have been exaggerated since the release of the book. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com