The Boston Phoenix
Review from issue: February 3 - 10, 2000

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Four stars

Tarzan

(Disney)

Like Edgar Rice Burroughs's original, Disney's Tarzan (Tony Goldwyn) moves like a gorilla but thinks like a man. Glenn Close voices his gorilla mother with grace and tenderness; Minnie Driver gives us a sly, Julie Andrews sort of Jane; Rosie O'Donnell provides wisecracking contemporaneity as young Tarzan's best gorilla pal; and Brian Blessed is the evil jungle guide. But the heart of this Tarzan is the one shared by Tarzan and Jane, who communicate without words, with the timid, innocent acceptance of an Adam and Eve.
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