Product Description

The Tarzan story from Jane's point of view. Jane Parker (Bo Derek) visits her father (Richard Harris) in Africa where she joins him on an expedition. A couple of brief encounters with Tarzan establish a (sexual) bond between her and Tarzan. When the expedition is captured by savages Tarzan comes to the rescue.Running Time: 115 min.System Requirements:Running Time 115 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/CLASSIC Rating: R UPC: 012569592728 Manufacturer No: 65927

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #28948 in DVD
• Brand: Warner Brothers
• Released on: 2004-06-08
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.77:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 115 minutes

Customer Reviews

One of the worst movies I have ever seen
I haven't seen this film since 1981, here's a little of what I remember:
Poorly written script highlighted by perhaps the most boring monologue ever given by a decent actor (Richard Harris).
Poorly choreographed fight scenes (Tarzan vs big snake, Tarzan vs native).
Poor cinematography & editing: e.g. An excruciatingly long shot up a cliff. Bizarre and blurry camera work during a otherwise lame snake wrestling scene.

I agree with the poster who said that this film is probably worth seeing just because it is so laughably bad.

Has to be seen to be believed.
John Derek's "Tarzan the Ape Man" is a strange movie. In Maltin's Movie Guide, Leonard Maltin says he almost felt he needed to devise a rating below "BOMB", his lowest rating, in order to rade "Tarzan the Ape Man".

So, is it really that bad? Not really. Is it good? Not really. Is it worth watching? Definitely.

First of all, the movie is not so much about Tarzan as about Jane, and her relationship with her estranged father, explorer James Parker. Great actor Richard Harris plays James Parker and Harris gives us some of the most hilarious overacting you'll likely to see in a long time. The drama part of the story, the relationship between Parker and Jane, is laughable, because the dialoge is so silly and because of Harris's absurd acting. Other examples of Harris's overacting is when, at night, they hear Tarzan yell in the distance, and Parker screams "Oh, shut up, you bo-oring sonuvabitch!"

Jane joins her father's expedition and before long, Jane meets Tarzan, when he saves her from a lion while she's taking a bath (one of several bathing scenes whose main purpose is to show Bo Derek with no clothes.

After a while Jane meets Tarzan again, after he saves her from a snake. He fights the snake in what may be one of the worst "action" scenes ever filmed, in slow motion and double exposure, so we don't see what happened. Anyway, Tarzan gets injured and Jane tries to nurse him back to consciousness with the help from an elephant and some chimps, while saying things like, "I've never touched a man before, but I like it. I like it very much". Later, Tarzan wakes up and she continues talking to him, even though he obviously doesn't understand English. For some reason she says "Do you know you're more beautiful than any girl I know?"

Later, when Jane is reunited with her father and his troupe, they're abducted by some strange natives who strip Jane naked and start painting her white. Jane asks her father to tell her a story so she can think of something else while this is going on and he starts spouting something like "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.... All the kings horses and all the kings men...." It's extremely absurd and has to be seen to be believed.

So, the movie is fun, although it could have been slightly shorter for better pace, but it definitely deserves to be a cult turkey. And those who want to see Bo naked won't be disappointed. But whatever everyone else says, I do think she's also a quite decent actress. Miles O'Keeffe plays Tarzan, he doesn't have much to do, but he's sure nice to look at.

Recommended for fans of Bo and fans of strange, funny "bad" movies.

Jungle fever for Bo!
One need only look at the cover of this DVD to see what the story is really about. It's not Tarzan, but Jane. Bo Derek is the #1 selling point of the film, and she is basically the only reason anyone should bother buying this DVD. Bo Derek is certainly the sexiest Jane ever. However, she is not the best Jane ever. That distinction belongs to Andie McDowell in Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan. As such, the whole story is centered around her and her attempts to reconcile with her estranged father (Richard Harris).

There is possibly the least about Tarzan in this film of any Tarzan movie ever made. He is simply a wild man in the jungle and nothing more. He barely does anything other than wrestle a snake (for what seemed like 1/2 hour) and wrestle a macho native. There is no characterization whatsoever; nobody ever asks where he came from or what he's doing in Africa. It seems that nobody even cares! The Tarzan depicted in this film is a far cry from the Tarzan of the novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs. In the novels Tarzan is highly intelligent and cunning, while in this flick he is basically an ignorant brute & nothing more. I will say that one thing they DID get right was his physique. A buffed-up Miles O'Keefe fills that aspect nicely.

If you are looking for a Tarzan movie that remotely resembles the vision of Edgar Rice Burroughs, this is not the avenue to go. The late Richard Harris was a great actor, but even he is not enough to drag this film into the realm of respectability. As is the case with most John Derek films, the movie plods along at a snail-like pace. In the end (and this is an unfortunate thing to say about a Tarzan movie), the single biggest reason this flick is worth a look is to see Bo Derek au-natural in Africa. Basically, the whole movie seems to be a side-trip to see Bo topless. That's not an altogether bad thing, but.....