Yates spends half the film explaining what he thinks are important details through flashbacks - like how Jane and Tarzan met - and the other half of the film assuming people know the intricacies of The Legend of Tarzan, leaving gaping holes in the story that are never addressed. Important details are skimmed over, and the flashback mechanism is unabashedly overused in order to justify picking up with Tarzan and Jane a decade after the events in the novel take place.
The entire film feels rushed, like it's trying to compact two or three movies into an hour and 50 minutes. It's immaculately shot, it's fast-paced and gripping, but where the movie falters, like other Yates movies, is its storyline. Except for the fact that Tarzan isn't a sequel.ĭavid Yates' adaptation of the literary hero's story shines in a few areas.
THE LEGEND OF TARZAN MOVIE 2016 CAST FULL
In a summer full of movie sequels, The Legend of Tarzan feels like it fits right in. This Tarzan isn’t quite the jungle VIP – but it’s got a little swing.Tweet The reimagination of Tarzan's story doesn't reflect the classic But at least the animals are memorable – best of all is a pack of scene-stopping silverback gorillas digitally created for the movie. Skarsgård himself is fairly bland as Greystoke, delivering a po-faced Byronic spin on the character, all velvet coats and dreamy romantic stares at his belle while sitting barefooted in the boughs of trees. The most lively performances come from Christoph Waltz, preening and over-cooked as a colonial villain (an envoy of the Belgian King Leopold) and Samuel L Jackson as George Washington Williams, a real-life critic of Belgian imperialism in the Congo, who is awkwardly shoe-horned into this movie’s comic-book plot. It gives Tarzan’s other half Jane (Margot Robbie) the voice of a twentieth-century feminist – not exactly credible but very welcome – and pays some attention to the exploitation of indigenous peoples and the pilfering of natural resources. Still, it might leave you scratching your head with a few questions of your own, like: where does Greystoke buy his shaving razors in the wilds? And, more importantly, which jungle gym does he visit to work on those freakishly sculpted and very twenty-first-century abs? (Not that fans of Skarsgård will worry too much about that.)ĭirected by ‘Harry Potter’ stalwart David Yates, this ‘Tarzan’ tries hard to be more than a creaky adventure story. The film plays as an old-school historical action-adventure, with lots of animal attacks and jungle chases and plenty of distracting flashbacks to answer questions about Tarzan’s complicated backstory. It’s the 1880s and Greystoke is back in the African Congo as a trade emissary for the British government and facing down colonial skullduggery. It imagines Viscount Greystoke (Alexander Skarsgård), best known as chest-beater Tarzan, all grown-up and civilised after a childhood in the jungle raised by apes.
This high-energy, big-budget new spin on the old Tarzan story is fun to watch if you take it as throwaway kitsch.
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