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Tarzan is the thirty-seventh animated feature in the Disney animated features canon. It was produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, and released to theaters by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution on June 18, 1999. It is based upon the Tarzan of the Apes series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs, and is the only major motion picture version of the Tarzan property to be animated. It is also the last "bona fide" hit before the Disney slump of the early 2000's. It is also considered by many to be the last of the Disney renaissance era (1989-1999.)

Plot summary

Off the coast of Africa, a father lowers his wife and infant son off a burning ship and then evacuates himself. They arrive on Africa and build themselves a treehouse. Meanwhile, a gorilla couple (Kerchak and Kala) lose their son to a leopard named Sabor. As they move to another nest area, Kala hears an infant crying and follows it back to the treehouse. She investigates it and sees it ransacked and the mother and father lying dead in the corner. Kala finds the human baby and adopts him. She brings him back to her people, but Kerchak doesn't like the baby because he's a human and because he doesn't want another child after they recently lost their own. Kala names the child Tarzan.

Tarzan, now ten years old, tries to fit in with the other gorillas. He made friends with a female gorilla named Terk and an elephant named Tantor. Over many more years, Tarzan's now an adult and is attacked by Sabor the leopard. Tarzan kills Sabor and earns the respect of Kerchak. Suddenly a gunshot is heard from far away. As the gorillas leave, Tarzan follows the sound and sees three humans: Professor Porter, his daughter Jane, and their hunter guide Clayton. Tarzan saves Jane from some angry baboons and tries to communicate with her as he can't speak English (Tarzan is speaking gorilla to the other gorillas and Tantor but it's translated into English). Jane returns to her camp and finds it ransacked by Tarzan's friends. After some introductions, Tarzan and the gorillas leave and Prof. Porter and Clayton arrive.

After some time, Tarzan again returns to the camp and is introduced to Prof. Porter and Clayton. Together, the three teach Tarzan English and ask him where to find the rest of the gorillas. Tarzan leads them to Kala and Terk but Kerchak appears and is hostile to Tarzan and his company. As the others flee, Kerchak scolds Tarzan and he flees. Kala shows him the treehouse where she found him and Tarzan sees a picture of his mother, father, and himself as a baby. Now knowing where he must go, Tarzan puts on his father's old formal suit and joins up with Jane, who has become infatuated with him, Porter, and Clayton. They board a ship only to find the crew captured by some thugs. Clayton reveals that he wanted to find the apes and capture them for study in England. He locks Tarzan, Jane, Porter and the crew into the hold and goes back to shore. Tantor and Terk rescue Tarzan and the others and they go off to stop Clayton.

The gorillas are attacked by Clayton and his gang and one by one they're rounded up. Kerchak is mortally wounded by Clayton's rifle but Tarzan interferes. As Jane, Porter, Tantor, and Terk free the gorillas and lock up the thugs, Tarzan and Clayton fight amongst the trees. Tarzan throws some vines at Clayton, entangling him. He starts cutting the vines with his machete and Tarzan sees one of the vines wrapping around Clayton's neck. He tries to warn the hunter but Clayton cuts the last vine and falls down, and his neck is snapped by the vine. A dying Kerchak apologizes to Tarzan for doubting him and makes him leader of the gorillas.

Tarzan says goodbye to Jane and Porter as they board the ship, but Jane decides that she loves him and returns, later followed by Porter.

Voice cast

Tony Goldwyn
- Tarzan
Minnie Driver
- Jane Porter
Rosie O'Donnell
- Terk
Wayne Knight
- Tantor
Brian Blessed
- Cecil Clayton
Nigel Hawthorne
- Professor Porter
Glenn Close
- Kala
Lance Henriksen
- Kerchak
Alex D. Linz
- Young Tarzan
Taylor Dempsey - Young Tantor

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