The stylized physiques and movements of the characters in this exciting animated musical-romance-adventure are at once realist and fantastic. Tarzan (voice by Tony Goldwyn) zooms through the jungle as if atop a gravity-defying skateboard. Even before he meets Jane (voice by Minnie Driver) we’re encouraged to respond not only to his physicality but to his sensuality—an essential part of many cartoon characters that’s rarely displayed with so little hypocrisy or coyness when the target audience includes children. Kevin Lima and Chris Buck directed a screenplay by Tab Murphy, Bob Tzudiker, and Noni White, based on Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Tarzan of the Apes; with the voices of Glenn Close, Alex Linz, Rosie O’Donnell, Brian Blessed, Nigel Hawthorne, Lance Henriksen, and Wayne Knight, and songs by Phil Collins.
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