This 2013 German animated feature reworks Edgar Rice Burroughs' jungle legend with motion-capture-style CGI and a corporate-thriller twist bolted onto the classic origin story.
What is Tarzan about?
Orphaned as an infant when his parents' plane goes down over the African rainforest, the boy who becomes Tarzan grows up among the region's wildlife, learning the canopy long before he learns his own name. Years later he crosses paths with Jane Porter, a headstrong young woman drawn into the same stretch of forest, and the two form an uneasy alliance. The land Tarzan calls home sits on resources coveted by Greystoke Energies, the firm that absorbed his family's holdings after the crash, and its executives send an armed expedition to clear the way for extraction. What starts as a rescue mission for Jane turns into a defense of the only home Tarzan has ever known, pitting his knowledge of the terrain against hired muscle with modern weapons.
About the cast
Kellan Lutz and Spencer Locke head the English-language voice cast, joined by Les Bubb, Joe Cappelletti, Brian Huskey, Mark Deklin, Jaime Ray Newman and Robert Capron rounding out the supporting roles.
Context & significance
Directed by Reinhard Klooss, the film is a German production that leans on stylized, near-photorealistic animation rather than hand-drawn art, part of a wave of CGI reimaginings of public-domain adventure stories that arrived in the early 2010s. Its choice to fold an energy-company villain into the Tarzan mythos updates the century-old source material with a resource-extraction plot that gives the jungle setting a contemporary stake.
Watching Tarzan on Ktime
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