Movie Review: THE LEGEND OF TARZAN is a joyless drudge of a movie, for the cast, as well as the audience. If they don’t bother, you shouldn’t either.

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While I only ever read one of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Tarzan books, I did grow up watching the Johnny Weismuller movies when they would run on BBC2, and I watched quite a bit of the TV show that starred Ron Ely, back in the 70s, and I think I saw the Disney animated movie a few years back.  I even had an idea for a Tarzan screenplay at one point, that would play up a mythical take on the character, removing him somewhat from the action/adventure pulp origins of the character.  Fast forward a couple of decades later, and 2016 sees the release of The Legend Of Tarzan.  I’m curious as to why they bothered.

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