This is a mess of a movie, the real problem is the animation style that just looks like plastic people. Not the Disney story, but no blood, or death is really ever shown so it might as well be. The water physics are good, but as soon as you add the characters to that water it all goes out the window. The world is beautiful, but as soon as you put most of these plastic people into it it just makes them look more like dolls in a play set that is kind of mixed up. The main story is good, and some of the moving shots are really well done. I found myself on more than one occasion really impressed with 2 or 3 seconds here or there, just not often enough to make up for the problems. There are glaring collision issues that are never fixed, and there are entire scenes that feel like they have not been finished which really makes this production suffer. Now there are also issues with the story that are incredibly stupid, and any child will take these things as insults to them directly. Take just one example as the area that Tarzan, and Jane enter around midway through the story that the narrator (who is uncredited, and sounds like Nathan Fillion)describes as having never been seen by man, the entrance to which is overlooked by 2 large carved heads, and there are stairs through out. There really is something here though when you dig down below the awful look of the movie, and the terrible way in which the entire production was handled that you have not seen, some really amazing shots of Tarzan traveling through the forest, and other motion shots which I really did Enjoy watching. However most people will find this whole thing to feel out of date, and 2 years too late. Hard to recommend for anyone other than a true fan of animation, or Tarzan fans who like seeing new takes on the Greystoke (ala Stark Industries) story lines.

US industrialist John Greystoke perishes in a helicopter accident in Africa while searching for an energy-bearing meteorite which crashed millenia ago: his 4-year old son JJ is the only survivor. Fortunately, the child is found and raised by maternal ape Kala: he calls himself Tarzan after his childhood fantasies surrounding his favourite ape doll. Then, in his teens he encounters Jane, the daughter of his father's colleague and environmentalist Jim Porter. They are both involved several years later when William Clayton (who is now running the Greystoke business) goes in pursuit of the meteorite once again with not a thought for the environment.

This is a curate's egg. There is some terrific stuff here, chief among which is the realisation of the jungle environment. And, if you have to update Tarzan's origin, I suppose this is OK (personally, I have trouble if he is not the long lost son of English aristocracy, but that's just me. And quite a lot of other people).

There is also some startlingly bad stuff here, too. The kid JJ is whiny, clingy, frightened of everything, and pretty much tied to his cuddly ape doll. He is such a complete wimp (OK, he's 4) that his abrupt switch to muscular heroic teen/man strains credulity, but at least it means that we are out of the overlong introduction.

I now know why they go with established names in animated movies - they are good. I hadn't heard of most of the people providing voices here, and they are mostly bad. Les Bubb as Jim Porter is particularly poor, but Spencer Locke as Jane reminds me of Cameron Diaz in harsh nasal mode. She grates.

My biggest problem, though, is the meteorite, which carries with it a bucketload of unanswered questions. If they can't find it, how do they know it's there? And how come they can't find it? It's the size of Mount Everest, and it isn't always shrouded in fog. How does the energy thing work, anyway? What is the point in seeking to blow it up? Taking a step backwards and looking from a distance, this isn't actually a Tarzan film at all: it's Avatar, with a bodged Tarzan origin nailed on at the front and Superman Returns' kryptonite mountain nailed on at the end.

Maybe kids won't have so many problems with it.

The 3D should have been great: it is indifferent.

people always complaining about the origin of Tarzan. as for me, i'd love to watch some alternate story, just like this.

although it has some kind of sci-fi plot, but who cares. at first, like some other guy, i thought that this was a life action because of kellan lutz played a role, but then, ow, this is some CG movie.

some people said that the animation are bad, but for me, is not. it has some potential for animated movie which didn't made from Hollywood, as far as i know.

in my opinion, don't trust the review too much, and give it a try. perhaps you would enjoy this movie as well as me, because watching movie is not always about plot or something you'd expect.