- #TARZAN THE APE MAN 1981 SWINGING ON A RUBBER BAND MOVIE#
- #TARZAN THE APE MAN 1981 SWINGING ON A RUBBER BAND FREE#
You know it’s bad when you semi-acknowledge Richard Chamberlain’s ability to play a convincing macho adventurer.Īs I said, Van Dien can’t act, not even to save his life.
#TARZAN THE APE MAN 1981 SWINGING ON A RUBBER BAND MOVIE#
What I got was a movie that made Cannon’s Allan Quatermain flicks- King Solomon’s Mines and Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (?!)- look good by comparison. The title alone filled me with the hope of a good old-fashioned Saturday afternoon adventure flick. I hoped that wouldn’t be the case with Tarzan and the Lost City.
If it didn’t screen, that usually meant it was rotten.
#TARZAN THE APE MAN 1981 SWINGING ON A RUBBER BAND FREE#
In the 90s, I saw most movies at free screenings. I actually paid to see it, not a common thing for me at the time. I went to see Tarzan and the Lost City on a Saturday afternoon. Is he still one of them or is he one of THEM? Given that he spent the last nine years in England, it’s a valid question. There’s also some business about a tribal leader questioning our hero’s loyalty. That’s about it as far as storyline goes. Naturally, she’s abducted by Ravens at one point meaning that Tarzan has to swing in on his vine to rescue her. Not one to stay home and wait, Jane follows John to Africa so she can join in on the fun. He returns to Africa to stop Ravens from plundering its treasures. It seems that this evil British explorer fellow, Nigel Ravens (Waddington, The Last of the Mohicans), has found the key to locating the legendary lost city of Opar, a sacred place to the tribesmen. The plot, such as it is, has John Clayton/Tarzan bailing on his wedding to Jane Porter (March, Color of Night) after receiving a psychic message from a lion friend that trouble is brewing in his old stomping grounds in the African jungle. IT SUCKS! If Warner was trying to start a new Tarzan franchise, they went about it in all the wrong ways starting with the casting of personality-free Van Dien as the titular character. Released two weeks before the first big summer movie (Deep Impact), the fact that Warner released it in a dump period and did NOT screen it in advance should tell you all you need to know about it. It also leaves Tarzan and the Lost City, a little remembered movie from 1998 starring Casper Van Dien (Starship Troopers) as the swinging jungle man. That leaves the 1981 softcore remake of Tarzan the Ape Man starring Bo Derek and Miles O’Keefe which was little more than a jungle sex fantasy and The Legend of Tarzan (2016) which was a CGI-heavy bore.
Need I explain why? I haven’t seen many of the ones from the 30s and 40s starring Johnny Weissmuller, just the first movie Tarzan the Ape Man (1932). I also don’t count the 1999 animated movie from Disney. It’s really more of a drama than an adventure. I don’t count 1984’s Greystoke because it’s a serious take on Edgar Rice Burroughs’ jungle man character. I’ve been racking my brain and I can’t come up with a single good Tarzan movie. Anderson Black Music: Christopher Franke Cinematography: Paul Gilpin Release date: Ap(US) Cast: Casper Van Dien, Jane March, Steven Waddington, Winston Ntshona, Rapulana Seiphemo, Ian Roberts, Sean Taylor, Gys De Villiers, Russel Savadier, Paul Buckby, Zane Meas, Barry Berk, Michael Gritten, Dimitri Cassar, Tony Caprari. Tarzan and the Lost City (1998) Warner Bros./Action-Adventure RT: 83 minutes Rated PG (adventure violence) Director: Carl Schenkel Screenplay: Bayard Johnson and J.
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