Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Warner Bros. | Release Date: March 30, 1984 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
62
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Generally favorable reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
5
Negative:
0
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90
NewsweekJack Kroll
Greystoke is entertaining, intelligent, even touching in its broad-scale treatment of a story that has always provided common ground for children and grown-ups. The main problem with this movie is that it's too short. [26 Mar 1984, p.74]
90
The New York TimesVincent Canby
Greystoke is one of the most thoroughly enjoyable films of its kind I've ever seen. Read full review
75
TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)
The most intelligent and perhaps the best filmic treatment of Edgar Rice Burroughs's classic pulp novels about Tarzan, the white child of noble blood raised by apes in the jungle, since Elmo Lincoln first brought the character to the screen in 1918. Read full review
70
Time OutStaff (Not Credited)
Rhetoric apart, the film offers some stirring entertainment, and a memorable ham sandwich from Richardson, allowed to steal the show as the grandfather in what proved to be his last film. Read full review
70
VarietyStaff (Not Credited)
On a production level, film is a marvel, as fabulous Cameroon locations have been seamlessly blended with studio recreations of jungle settings. Read full review
63
Miami HeraldBill Cosford
Greystoke has its many pleasures, and despite its bobtailing at the hands of the bottom-line-watchers, it has the sweep of epic. [30 Mar 1984, p.D1]
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