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The Legend of Tarzan

2016

David Yates

Alexander Skarsgård, Margot Robbie, Christoph Waltz, Samuel L. Jackson ...

5.2

12,578

Adventure Years after he's reassimilated into society, John Clayton III, known as the famous "ape man" Tarzan, is asked by Queen Victoria to investigate the goings-on in the Congo. Tarzan teams with an ex-mercenary named George Washington Williams to save the Congo from a fierce warlord who controls a massive diamond mine.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Jordan Hoffman The Guardian	"An inherently problematic remake (...) The Legend of Tarzan ends up being a garbled, clunky production that tries to please everyone and ends up pleasing no one (...) Rating: ★★ (out of five)"	NEG
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"Beautifully made (...) this is certainly the best live-action Tarzan film in many a decade (...) and offers a well-judged balance of vigorous action and engaging-enough drama"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Are you jarred by the anachronistic acting? Troubled that the animals are all digital? Pissed that you've seen it all before? At least it's watchable. And Skarsgard brings his A-game - mind, heart and body beautiful. (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Dave Calhoun Time Out	"The king of the jungle returns to wow us all with his swinging style and spectacular pecs (...) This high-energy, big-budget new spin on the old Tarzan story is fun to watch (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United Kingdom	Chris Hewitt Empire	"An adventure story without the adventure (...) Yates’ reinterpretation of the Lord Of The Jungle is a big disappointment (...) Rating: ★★ (out of five)"	NEG
United States	Brian Truitt USA Today	"While it looks great with its gorgeous computer-generated foliage and realistic animals, the story focuses too much on its stiff hero and a one-note villain rather than the big-picture ideas it raises in passing (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"	NEU
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"'The Legend of Tarzan' has a whole lot of fun (...) but what makes it more enjoyable than other recycled stories of this type is that the filmmakers have given Tarzan a thoughtful, imperfect makeover"	POS
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"'The Legend of Tarzan' is sequel, origin story and racially sensitive revisionist history lesson all in one (...) between this and last year’s “Pan,” evidence suggests Warner Brothers ought to leave the live-action reboots to Disney"	NEG
United States	Rex Reed The New York Observer	"Rice Burroughs’ tale Is dragged out of mothballs for ‘The Legend of Tarzan’ (...) a lavish, expensive, woefully digitalized version of the legend (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"By turning Tarzan into just another superhero, David Yates' blockbuster origin story wastes one of literature's great wild men"	NEG
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"While the talented cast and a solid director make for a serviceable and intermittently entertaining adventure, there's very little about this film that screams, YOU GOTTA SEE THIS (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"	NEU
United States	Stephen Whitty New York Daily News	"Alexander Skarsgard is more abs than actor as the ape man, and Margot Robbie's Jane looks about as 19th-Century as an Aussie surfer girl. Together, they produce all the real-life passion of an Abercrombie & Fitch ad (...) Rating: ★★ (out of five)	NEG
United States	Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"A Tarzan movie made by people who don’t understand the appeal of Tarzan. He’s about joy and abandon and the fantasy of living in harmony with creation. He’s not about the struggle in the Congo"	NEG

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