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Airborne 'Tarzan'; Disney's Weightless Rendering of a Classic

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19990618
Author:Stephen Hunter

He's flying.

Look at him way up high and suddenly there he is, flying. He can soar, he can weave and what's more, he's not even trying.

This is . . . Tarzan? Yes it is, at least according to the new animated Disney take on Edgar Rice Burroughs's fabled character. The film sees the ape man more as the Peter Pan of a never-never land (never existed, never will) than as a chest-beating avatar of white superiority. He's no avatar, he's an aviator. This Tarz is a magical sprite who zips through the ether with the grace of the Red Baron in defiance of that nasty reality called gravity; he sprinkles ...

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