CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

wvmcl Since there was so much comment on the "fake gorillas," I think it is worth pointing out that these were not in fact intended to be gorillas but rather the fictional race of "great apes" that raised Tarzan in the Burroughs novels. They were supposed to be something closer to humans, with a language developed enough that it could be translated into English - in fact Tarzan was a word in the great ape language meaning "white skin." You can quibble about how successful the movie portrayal of these creatures was, but any Burroughs fan will recognize what they were trying to do. In any case, it was a brief sequence.I thought this movie was surprisingly good and came closer to capturing the flavor of Burroughs' later Tarzan novels than anything else I have seen. Burroughs, after all, was primarily a fantasy writer and there is no point in holding his fiction to any "realistic" standard. The production standards were quite good and I liked the principal actors. In fact, Van Dien may be my second favorite Tarzan, after Gordon Scott.

bkoganbing Casper Van Dien joins a long list of actors/athletes to essay the part of Edgar Rice Burroughs famous man of the jungle. As far as looks go he certainly fits the role, loincloth and all.Tarzan is as eternal on the screen in his history as Sherlock Holmes. Both of them if you remember were brought up to date during World War II to aid the Allied effort. And Tarzan had several modern adventures through his many films and television roles right up through the nineties.But on the cusp of a new millennium the Ape Man is returned to the period in time where Edgar Rice Burroughs set him in, clearly in British colonial Africa. Tarzan in fact has returned home to claim the title of the Earl of Greystoke and he's going to marry Jane March as Jane Porter.But Van Dien gets one of those instinctive feelings, the kind that Chuck Norris gets when his Cherokee people are in trouble on Walker, Texas Ranger. He postpones the wedding to an exasperated Jane and heads to Africa. Some of his native friends are indeed in trouble. A scientist who's hired a bunch of what would be called trailer park trash now is on the verge of discovering a lost city with untold wealth. It will make things worse than ever for the natives under colonialism if this archaeological Holy Grail is discovered.Casper tries to reason with the scientist and then takes the more Tarzan like approach to the problem. But things do get real complicated when Jane follows him to Africa. Tarzan and the Lost City is an old style adventure story with the benefit of 90s computer graphics. It's also politically sensitive, not portraying the natives as they were in those old Tarzan films from the studio days. And of course it's filmed entirely in Africa, certainly not done by MGM or RKO back in the day.In the jungle Casper's great to look at and a wonder to behold. But why did he try to adopt that English accent. He sounded silly when he used it. You notice Johnny Weissmuller never even attempted one. Of course they did keep his dialog to a minimum.Despite the accent, this latest big screen Tarzan is a good film and Casper Van Dien is a worthy successor to Johnny Weissmuller, Lex Barker, Gordon Scott, etc.

SanFernandoCurt It's difficult to tell exactly when the sucking starts in this movie. I think - although I'm not sure here - that I heard faint slurping sounds during the opening credits. At any rate, about half-way through the first scene you can discern the telltale, unmistakable signs of profound "suck-icity." Now... in the credits posted here at the IMDb site, there are 10 producers listed. Ten! Almost an even dozen, folks. And evidently, not one of them, at any point, looked around to the other nine and hollered: "Let's jam a foot on the brake pedal right now! This monkey pic is suckin' the big banana!" There's a scene late in the movie - when you're about as slack-jawed and banged-up and dulled into insensibility as you're gonna get - that pretty much sums up the nature of suckdom in its universal state. The bad guys walk down a long promenade lined by these... weird... demon drummers. They arrive at the foot of a pyramid thingy and see a frightening looking guy with a big cobra crown on his head. One of the bad guys, suddenly jolted by a lucid realization, yells, "It's a trap!" That's about when I got REALLY angry that this thing had 10 producers.One of the few diversions you have, as this "Tarzan" grinds to the final credits, is look at Jane March and try to figure out how such an astringently starved, painfully thin woman could have such a big mouth. I mean, her mouth looks like a full-sized Peterbilt 12-ton tractor trailer with an 18-wheel cargo rig could fit in there. As long as she opens real wide, of course.It doesn't help the movie along that she can't act worth a deee-AM! But then again, everybody tries real hard to piggyback the script along by punching the ham button real hard. There's a lot of "IT'S THE GATEWAY TO HELL!" lines delivered with consummate commitment and praiseworthy straightfacedness. (Is that a word?) But nothing can keep "Tarzan and the Lost City" from sliding right off the vine.

dahstra I enjoyed this film. It was nice to jump PAST the point where Tarzan was discovered, to a point where he had left the jungle and returned to England for socialization. Casper is an intelligent, grunt-free version of Tarzan who returns to the jungle after getting a psychic call "home" from his shaman friend. The movie remained focused on the goal set at the beginning, to save the Lost City from a power hungry treasure hunter. I didn't feel lost or that any of the events were fluff. There is a nice display of magic which was presented well by the special effects team. All of the acting was well done and not overdramatized. I would very much like to see the story continued by this team of creators and actors.