A Tarzan who is still different even after he meets other humans-because his experience is not the same. It is a Tarzan who knows from the day he compares his hand with the hand of Kala, the ape who has adopted him, that he is different. The most durable movie character in history emerges this time as a man who asks the question, "Why are you threatened by anyone different than you?" This is not the confident Tarzan of so many Edgar Rice Burroughs novels and Johnny Weissmuller movies, discovering cities of gold. ![]() ![]() The surface of the movie is adventure, comedy and movement-there are sequences here as exciting as the ballroom scene in " Beauty and the Beast"-but underneath is something of substance. Maybe it's the notion that we can all inhabit this planet together, man and beast, and get along. Something deep within the Tarzan myth speaks to us, and Disney's new animated "Tarzan" captures it.
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