Word: tarzanitis
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...features (Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2 and Monsters, Inc.), produced by John Lasseter and his cyber-Merlins at Pixar, earned an average of $214 million; the last two averaged $250 million. As for Disney's once mighty traditional animated films, the last four (Mulan, Tarzan, The Emperor's New Groove and Atlantis: The Lost Empire) grossed, on average, just $116 million, and the last two didn't make it to $90 million. Pixar films were originally meant to supplement Disney's basic animation menu; instead they have supplanted it. The story is the same at DreamWorks...
Winter, not known for his show of emotion on the court, yelped like Tarzan as he ran over to the Harvard crowd to exchange high-fives and back slaps...
MacDowell might have ended up there after her very first film. The Tarzan adventure Greystoke made her the punch line to an industry joke, when her dialogue was dubbed by Glenn Close. It took a complex role as the frustrated wife in Steven Soderbergh's sex, lies, and videotape (1989) for the actress to show moviegoers and Hollywood that she was an actress. The Object of Beauty, Groundhog Day and Four Weddings and a Funeral solidified her status as a go-to gal to ornament the smarter comedies for grownups. But in Crush, MacDowell is the center of the action...
...seeing a marriage of the old and the new. DreamWorks co-owner Jeffrey Katzenberg concedes that "if we stayed stuck in the 20th century with the same look and style, it would be rejected--and it has been rejected." But he doesn't blame the audience; he blames Hollywood. Tarzan, he says, referring to Disney's 1999 hit movie, "was the last really great story done in 2-D." He's hoping to change that with Spirit, a horse adventure opening May 24 with both hand- and computer-drawn images. Plus, it should be noted, there is a scene...
...fast pace of "Kong" reminds me of other films from the '30s that have the same breakneck speed, most particularly the work of W. S. Van Dyke in "Tarzan and His Mate," "Trader Horn" and my favorite, "San Francisco." Certainly influenced by Cooper-Schoedsack (some of their jungle footage turns up in both "Horn" and "Tarzan"), Van Dyke sets up the plot and gets us involved in the characters with an economy that is unimaginable today...