A tie with Greystoke as best adaptation of Tarzan yet although the two films are at the opposite ends of the emotional spectrum. Where Greystoke is a bleak, tragic tale of loss Disney’s Tarzan is an uplifting fun romantic adventure.
Of course as with any Tarzan story there has to be the dark events of his parent’s deaths, but it is handled extremely well here it happens off-screen and in a change to the book is carried out by Sabor the Leopard.
The voice acting is superb. Glenn close excels as Kala, Tarzan’s ape mother. Minnie Driver is an intelligent and feisty Jane Porter and Brian Blessed lends his wonderful baritone to the human villain of the piece Clayton.
The animation is brilliant and the backgrounds stunningly beautiful. There will probably be no other adaptation that will be able to portray how at ease Tarzan is at moving through the tree tops of the jungle.
