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Summary: a total disappointment from Disney
Review: As someone who really enjoyed the first Tarzan, I was really looking forward to the sequel. Boy was I wrong. The animation is choppy and hard to watch, totally unlike the smooth "deep canvas" brilliance of the first. There are crazy shadows all over everything so it looks like it's taking place in an aquarium or something. The voices are stiff, the stories are ridiculously bad, and the whole thing comes across as a clumsy rushed effort to make money. I expect better and will absolutely not be buying this foolish thing.
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Summary: Disney's direct to video flounders
Review: As with so many direct to video titles, Disney's 'Tarzan & Jane' fails to live up to it's feature film predecessor. While the big screen ani-epic gave us fresh cel animation (courtesy of Glenn Keane's dynamic pencil), this video draws upon the television cash cow for it's 'inspiration' and fails to deliver the goods in terms of quality artwork or story development. The result is an awkward series of flashbacks marking the 'adventures' of the couple's first year of wedded bliss. While young children may find the character's walking, talking, and tree surfing every bit as fascinating as it's big screen origin, adults will quickly tire of the limited animation and imagination in this dull follow-up.
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Summary: Don't waste your time or money.
Review: Cheap animation, poor voice acting, lazy script-writing add up to a complete dud. Walt Disney must be spinning in his grave.
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Summary: Horrible Waste of Time!
Review: Don't waste your money! This movie is as horrible as any straight to video sequel I have ever seen. Paper thin characters, stories taken directly from the cartoon, and cheap looking animation ruin what could have been a promising DVD. Disney is again going for a profit with minimal quality and effort. Stick with the original all the way.
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Summary: Rip-off Sequel
Review: Garbage, especially if you had your expectations set by the original movie. Those who rated this movie poorly said it best -- believe 'em. If there was a "0" star, I would choose it.
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Summary: Almost a complete waste of money...
Review: Granted, the stories were cute, BUT... since my 2 boys (5½ & 4) had already seen them from the cartoon show, we were very disappointed in this DVD. I can't recommend this DVD unless your kids haven't seen the Tarzan cartoon show, as all 3 of the mini-stories in this movie were taken from that. Also, the artwork is NOT Disney quality, it's very low budget artwork/animation. Also, the voices are horrible. I think the only original voice is Tantor's (the elephant). What a waste. I'll be sure to check online reviews before I ever buy another (over-priced) Disney movie. :o(
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Summary: A cute follow up to orginal movie
Review: I bought this for my three year old daughter because I am a sucker for Disney movies. By the time I decide I want a particular Disney movie they take it off the market so now I pretty much buy what ever they dish out which seems to be at the rate of once a month. I figure even a bad Disney movie is still better than most of the cartoons out there. I didn't have extremely high expectations for this movie but it was actually better than I thought it would be. I had a few chuckle moments watching it. My daughter liked it enough to watch it for stretches at a time. The story centers on Tarzan and Jane's one year anniversary. As Jane tries to think of what would be the best gift for Tarzan, she and the other characters remember incidents over the past year. My favorite was when Jane's friends came to visit her from England. There was definitly some adult humor as the riends admired Tarzan's body. The rest of the movie was basically Tarzan rescuing Jane from one dire predicament or another. I thought the scenes where Jane's ex boyfriend comes to visit were a little on the viloent side for a Disney movie. There is an intense airplane fight in the air with gunfire and the ex boyfrind aims a gun at Tarzan and Jane. I thought Disney movies were supposed to be on the less violent side. I think little girls will like the scenes with Jane and the animals but I think that some of the action sequences were geared more towards older kids mainly boys who would like movies such as Atlantis. Despite the shortcommings of the movie it was still nice to catch up and visit with Tarzan and Jane. I didn't think too much of the bonus activities on the dvd. I tried to do the build your own treehouse but was told that I wasn't very good at it by Jane's dad. It seemed boring anyway. The bit with Mandy Moore talking about her song was really annoying. Mandy has this to say about her song "I don't have to be Mandy Moore when I sing. I can I be a Disney Character, it's so liberating" or some shmaltz like that. If you can sit through it without wanting to toss your cookies more power to you.
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Summary: 2 Year old Loves this Movie...
Review: I bought this movie for my son who is 2 1/2 and he just cracks up. He loves the Professor! I hadn't seen the first one so I had nothing to compare it too. The idea is that it's for the children and not the adults (per say) so the little things like the shadows don't bother him one bit. Michael T. Weiss does a wonderful job as Tarzan and the girl who plays Jane is wonderful as well. We now own the first one as well and while the graphics are better than the sequel, it's not as bad as everyone says. So if you are buying the DVD for your child ;) I think that they will enjoy it. My son does and he doesn't sit through to many movies. I would recommend it if anyone ask me. Thanks,
M-
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Summary: Disney Dud
Review: I cannot believe Disney would put it's name on this. The animation was horrible.
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Summary: Mixed Emotions
Review: I have mixed feelings about Disney's series of direct-to-video sequels to its animated features. On the plus side, it's good training for their animators. But CINDERELLA II was awful. HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME II was okay (the original voices is a big plus). I think the most succesful was LADY AND THE TRAMP II - even though the voices of the established characters were atrocious and Lady is reduced to a bit part. TARZAN & JANE is strung together from episodes of the syndicated television cartoon, with new connecting material. Oddly the DVD, at least, is in a widescreen format . The special edition DVD of Disney's TARZAN goes to great lengths to discuss the care and work that went into its making. But nothing of that scale is here. None of the voices are voiced by the original actors. The character of Tantor sounds like Wayne Knight, but his name is absent from the credits so I can only surmise it is the work of the talented mimic Jim Cummings - who is credited. When the original Disney's TARZAN was in theaters director Spike Lee complained of the absence of black characters. My take was that Tarzan's presence in this isolated part of the jungle was a fluke, and he had seen no people before - neither black nor white. But here it seems everybody who knew Jane in England shows up, plus there is a regular ship captain and a man who runs a local trading post - all are white. There are many other discrepancies with the original film - many things are just out of character. TARZAN & JANE is getting a heavy advertsiing push with national TV ads and billboards in major cities. Yet a legitimate Disney animated feature was released to DVD (for the first time) and home video the very same day with no fanfare whatsoever. That film is the much superior THE GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE. So it seems Disney 's main interest in these video sequels is sales - just more "product" - not quality. Ultimately, I feel Disney does itself no favor by cheapening its precious legacy with these cheap knock-offs.
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