Cheetah is disposed of rather early in the piece when Jane's dad shoots the chimp dead when she is clowning around. That's certainly a novel approach and I'm not knocking it.
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#TARZAN THE APE MAN 1981 SWIM SCENE UPDATE#
I heartily agree with all the previous reviewers, but what does really surprise me is that some of them received poor marks: Two out of five and four out of nine? What do people expect when they read a review? A load of garbage or someone's honest opinion? Okay, so here's my contribution: In my opinion, this seems to be a Jewish update of "Tarzan", complete with a Jewish heroine who knows the Old Testament backwards and would rather die rich than muck around in the jungle. Also, the ending has a distasteful aspect. Characters would fight one minute and work together the next. It becomes a knot of conflicting interest and no happy flow. He should think that Jane had been kidnapped and they're trying to kill him. After getting shot at, Tarzan is incredibly understanding. The footage with the actors is less compelling. I like a lot of the animal footage which are most likely previously filmed. Apparently, this was cobbled together from old footage and filming on the backlot.
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Along the way, they are attacked by rampaging elephants and Tarzan rescues Jane. She helps a local which only exacerbates the tribal conflict. Without money, she got dumped and has no place in society. Business has been going badly due to tribal conflicts and he has not been sending money to his daughter. Jane Parker travels to Africa to reunite with her father Col. I can't say dumbest because I haven't seen them all It's even worse than the many B-movies of the 40s and 50s set in the African jungles.and that's saying a lot! Overall, this schlocky mess is just terrible and is among the dumbest Tarzan pic ever. But it gets worse-such as the leopard attack where the animal's face is clearly a plastic mask! Another time, Tarzan stops an elephant.and if you look closely, you can see it's an Indian elephant wearing prostetic ears to make it look like an African one! But the funniest portion was the recreation of the famous swimming scene from "Tarzan and His Mate".using a crappy green screen! It was about the worst and dumbest thing in the film and made me chuckle. You can read the IMDB trivia for specifics on all the cost-cutting moves the filmmakers used.and there are many cheesy short-cuts! Here are a few I thought were funny: To hide the fact that old footage (mostly taken from the Johnny Weissmuller films), the filmmakers 'cleverly' tinted old black & white shots and hoped the audience was too stupid to notice.which you can't help but notice! This happens repeatedly and is not only cheap but annoying. It's one of the saddest looking Tarzan films you can find.
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You would think that coming from MGM it would be a big-budgeted picture but instead it's filled with recycled footage as well as children posing as adult Pygmies. "Tarzan, the Ape Man" is an incredibly cheap and cheesy movie.