TARZAN

Another funny Disney film that I have always liked is Tarzan. I like it very much because despite the fact that it is sometimes quite sad it is also very funny.

It is an American 1999 film which is based on the story Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

The film starts when a couple and his infant son escape from a burning ship, ending up on land near uncharted rainforests off the coast of Africa. They build a treehouse there, but one day Sabor (a leopardess) kills the couple. When Sabor was going to eat the child Kala (a gorilla whose son had been killed by Sabor) heard the baby cries and run to the treehouse. There she escapes with the child. She calls him Tarzan and Kala takes him to the gorilla troop to rise as her own despite his mate Kerchak’s disapproval. 

Tarzan grows up with the gorillas and he makes a friendship with the female gorilla Terk and the paranoid elephant Tantor. As a young man Tarzan kills Sabor protecting the troop and earning Kerchak’s respect.

One day, some explorers (Professor Porter, his daughter Jane and their hunter-guide Clayton) appear. Jane is accidentally separated from the group and attacked by a pack of baboons. Tarzan saves her and he discovers that he is like her, a human. Kerchak warns Tarzan to stay far from the humans but he does not do it. He comes back to the human’s camp and starts to learn their language and to know the human world. The explorers want Tarzan to take them to the gorilla troop but Tarzan refuses to do it because he is afraid of the threat of Kerchak.

When the explorers' boat returns to pick them up, Clayton persuades Tarzan that if he shows the group the gorillas, then Jane will stay with him. Tarzan agrees and leads the party to the gorilla troop's home, while Terk and Tantor lure Kerchak away to avoid having him attack the humans. Porter and Jane are excited to meet and mingle with the gorillas, but Kerchak returns and threatens to kill them after witnessing Clayton threatening some gorillas with his rifle. Kerchak heads directly towards Clayton but Tarzan is forced to hold Kerchak at bay while the humans escape, and then leaves the troop himself, alienated by his actions. Kala reluctantly takes Tarzan back to the treehouse where she found him as a baby, and shows him his true past.

Due to what Kala has shown Tarzan he decides to leave with the explorers and when they arrive to the ship they are all ambushed by pirates and it is then revealed that Clayton desires to capture and sell the gorillas in England for a fine price. Tarzan and the others are then locked up in the hull of the ship, but are rescued by Terk and Tantor and race back to the gorilla home.

Clayton and his men go back to the gorilla troop to capture them. Meanwhile Tarzan, with the help of some animals attacked the humans and imprisons them in the cages where they have planned to imprison the gorillas. Kerchak is fatally shot and Clayton dies because he leaves hanged because he does not realize that a vine snap was around his neck. Kerchak, in his dying breath, accepts Tarzan as his own adopted son finally, and names him the leader of the gorilla troop.

The next day, Jane and Porter are prepared to leave and Tarzan says them that he prefers to stay with the gorilla troop to continue his position as the new leader. Finally, Jane decides to stay there with Tarzan because they are in love and his father, Porter follows her.