A romantic, exotic, dramatic, bold and exciting revitalization of the Tarzan story, steeped heavily in the lore created by novelist Edgar Rice Burroughs….it’s the movie’s inherent, authentic Old Hollywood feel […]
Sections of this film are so imaginative, and so lovely, that they deserve our open-heartedness, not our scorn. Excerpt So what are we supposed to do with Tarzan, now that […]
Director David Yates, who made his bones with all four movies of the Harry Potter franchise, works with all the tools in his impressive kit—and what must have been every […]
by Chuck Koplinski Legendary film producer Darryl Zanuck once said, “The secret to success in Hollywood is giving the public what it wants before it knows it wants it.” In […]
The tale of the man raised by apes has been told ad nauseam, yet David Yates, who directed the last four Harry Potter movies, makes a strong case, visually and […]
It’s a romance, a bromance, a show-mance and a go-go-go-mance. Just when you thought we didn’t need another adventure based on Edgar Rice Burroughs’ king of the jungle, David Yates’ […]
At last, a Hollywood reimagining with a point. David Yates’ two-fisted pulp-studies spree The Legend of Tarzan doesn’t just update Edgar Rice Burroughs’ white-boy jungle-bro for our age of heightened […]
*(The review is mixed but is rated “fresh” on Rotten Tomatoes”) …. In some respects “Legend of Tarzan” is a step up from previous adaptations. It’s more fun than “Greystoke: […]
“The Legend of Tarzan” has a whole lot of fun, big-screen things going for it — adventure, romance, natural landscapes, digital animals and oceans of rippling handsome man-muscle. Its sweep […]
Fans of Edgar Rice Burroughs had a grand moment Tuesday night when they screened David Yates’ Legend of Tarzan at Warner Bros. Studios and discovered that after the longest of waits, […]
Here’s a bit of good news that got buried in the Rotten Tomatoes quickstep today. A month ago the over/under index for Legend of Tarzan’s opening weekend box office was somewhere in […]
There hasn’t been a live-action Tarzan film in almost two-decades, quite a drought for a franchise that has produced over fifty films in the past century. But regardless of the […]
‘The Legend of Tarzan‘ strangely feels like a comic book movie. As something that really wants to take itself seriously in all its gloominess, it mostly works when it wants […]
Deadline Hollywood, often a pretty hostile place, has reviewed Legend of Tarzan favorably and seems to get what David Yates was going for. Here are some highlights and a link. […]
The early IMDB User Ratings for Legend of Tarzan have it at 7.9. Here’s the basic breakdown based on the first 424 votes, coming from people who have seen preview […]
On Tuesday night in Burbank, what could be the toughest audience of all — friends, family, and lifelong fans of Edgar Rice Burroughs including John Burroughs, the grandson of ERB […]