Parent reviews for Tarzan

My son is very sensitive, he is 7 years old and this movie ended up being quite traumatic to him. I think what is hard in this movie for him is not the action, that can be quite scary, but the sadness of the deaths during the movie and the intensity of the bad characters. It was way to much for him. So I would advice sensitive children to wait and watch it when they are older.

Since this movie is rated G, I thought it would be fine for my nearly 6 year old and it was certainly a fun movie to watch but had some scary elements that would give me pause to recommend for his age group. Two scenes in particular were difficult: the scene where Tarzan the baby is alone and crying and rescued by the mother gorilla and the scene at the end when the father gorilla is shot by poachers. I had to watch with my son and carefully explain the context in an age-appropriate way. He was also upset at the scene where Tarzan leaves his gorilla family behind to go on the ship. The animation is beautiful and it has quite a bit of humor to appeal to kids. Jane is also a good role model and fights her way along with Tarzan rather than sitting and waiting to be rescued. Overall I would recommend this as a fun movie but if you have sensitive or younger children I would avoid it.

After having to read Edgar Rice Burroughs original "Tarzan of the Apes," (an incredibly sexist and racist, "of it's time") novel, I had to get the taste of it out of my mouth, so I went back to Tarzan's best known incarnation: the Disney version! I watched this over and over as a kid, this one maybe a little more than most Disney movies since it was only less then a decade old when I was a youngster. There's great voice acting by Minnie Driver as Jane, who, reflectively, is actually a very good role model for young girls. She's not a princess waiting for her prince to show up, she argues against what she thinks is wrong (i.e. Clayton, Brian Blessed, as the best voice in this film) and is stronger than say Snow White or Cinderella. The animation, especially the endless amount of greenery needed to create this African jungle landscape, is enviously gorgeous. Phil Collins songs brought back waves and waves of nostalgia, and that's what they're meant for! This is one of Disney Studio's best offerings of the 90's, and your kids will be sure to love it, though it is certainly more PG than G.

I liked the movie alot, and as an adoptive parent, appreciate the message that adoptive families are as good as biological ones. But my 5 year old never got past the first chase scene. She sobbed in terror at the first sight of the killer cat and we had to turn it off.

My daughter, 2, loved the animals. My son, 3, said "I did like it, but I didn't like the cross monkey or the cross leopard"

I started watching with my sensitive 5.5yo and it had her in tears upset until we turned it off about 7 minutes in. Here to warn those with sensitive children that the from the started the movie is very intense and eventually even shows the bodies of the two deceased parents with bloody footprints around them. I’d say hard pass until at least 7.

The villain ends up fall from a vine, and getting hanged by it until it SNAPS ITS NECK, and you can see the.body dangling from the vine in a nearby shadow when lighting strikes. And the way Tarzan picks up the girl with his legs is inappropriate.

When this movie came out in 1999 I went to see it thinking that it would be reasonably close to the Filmation Tarzan that I watched as a kid in the late 70s and early 80s. Nothing could've been further from the truth. The title character's behavior in this movie was infantile, and so was his speech. In the Saturday morning version from my childhood, by contrast, Tarzan was more of a man. Disney's Tarzan is Barney's Tarzan. Filmation's Tarzan, by contrast, was 3-2-1 CONTACT's Tarzan. The reason why I say that is because, just as 3-2-1 CONTACT was an intelligent show, "my" Tarzan was an intelligent Tarzan.