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...Tarzan's Table Manners...
...trying to transcend the myth of Tarzan, Greystoke becomes more of a three-dimensional National Geographic version of life in the jungle. There are spectacular scenes of the jungle and of country estate life in Britain, to be sure, but there is something essential missing. The characters paradoxically become uninteresting as the actors painfully try to show that they are real people and not stereotypic replicas of the "me-Tarzan, you Jane" genre T. V. e-runs of the old Johnny Weismuller greats still beat Gresstoke--despite the scenery--because they feature a kind of spirit the remake Tacks...
Like Greystoke attempts at awakening new interest in Tarzan, The Bounty fails in its attempt to give a new perspective to the age-old tale of the mutiny on the Bounty. What results, unfortunately, is a disjointed series of scenes that interest us only for their beauty and spectacular cinematography while the plot gets lost along with the characters. But an epic needs a substantial drama to make it an epic, and by reducing the importance of the plot in The Bounty, the movie becomes a two-hour long montage of pretty pictures that would look better on postcards...
Traditionally, spring marks the dog days of the movie business. This year, though, Hollywood is sending up a happy howl over a quartet of surprise hits: Disney's man-meets-mermaid comedy Splash ($37.5 million in 31 days); Warners' tony Tarzan epic Greystoke ($14.8 million in ten days); Fox's distaff Raiders rip-off'Romancing the Stone (5/2.5 million in ten days); and a rowdy ensemble farce, Police Academy (an astonishing $30 million in its first 17 days). Herewith, reports on three new contenders and the reigning champ...
...symbol, Tarzan (played lithely but never blithely by Christopher Lambert) requires little decoding. Born the seventh Earl of Greystoke to parents shipwrecked on the African coast, orphaned in infancy and raised by an extended family of apes, he is rescued and restored to his patrimony by a passing explorer (Ian Holm, who symbolizes humanity at its best). Unfortunately, he fits as uneasily into English society as he did into simian society, despite the loving fuss made over him by his grandfather (the late Ralph Richardson in all his glorious eccentricity). The old man's death, when he attempts...