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Aping a formula: Disney's `Tarzan' has its moments

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From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Date: 19990618
Author:DUANE DUDEK

"Tarzan" may be closer to the Edgar Rice Burroughs story than the Johnny Weissmuller offerings ever were, but it is closer still to the tired formulas Disney holds sacred.

Mass-producing lush animation annually is no simple task. But Disney has it down to an assembly-line technique that perhaps explains the perfunctory feel of the studio's 37th animated feature.

It is tempting to take the extraordinary effort that goes into such a work for granted because Disney makes it easy to do so. The stories may be different, but the styles and themes are by now so predictable that it is getting hard to ...

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