The Legend of Tarzan
Warner Bros. | Release Date: July 1, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
44
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 41 Critic Reviews
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11
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20
Negative:
10
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38
Slant MagazineJake ColeJun 30, 2016
The film's action sequences are a jumble of movement and cuts that have no discernible relation to the actual motion of the characters. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeTy BurrJun 29, 2016
It all might wash in a Johnny Weissmuller “Tarzan” movie from the 1940s. It no longer suffices today. Filmmakers, it’s time to pack up Greystoke Manor. Tarzan is dead. Read full review
33
The PlaylistRuss FischerJun 29, 2016
I can respect the intent to craft The Legend of Tarzan as a new chapter for the hero, one which is aware of all the shortcomings of many Tarzan stories that have gone before. And yet the film minimizes its own best ideas and falls back on adventure film tropes, old and new, in a way that undermines its attempt to decontextualize Burroughs’ aging swinger. Read full review
33
IndieWireDavid EhrlichJun 29, 2016
Don’t be fooled by the lack of spandex: The Legend of Tarzan turns the Lord of the Apes into just another superhero, the newest movie about fiction’s greatest wild man memorable only for the dull irony of how housebroken it feels. Read full review
30
ScreenCrushMatt SingerJun 29, 2016
The Legend of Tarzan is too boring to be truly offensive. In spite of some impressive hand and brow acting, Skarsgard’s Tarzan is a frustrating blank and Margot Robbie’s Jane is a simple damsel in distress. Read full review
25
New York PostSara StewartJun 30, 2016
Tarzan does little to adapt to modern times. Perhaps most punishingly of all for Skarsgard’s “True Blood” fans, it fails to ever put our hero in a skimpy loincloth. Read full review
25
Miami HeraldRene RodriguezJun 29, 2016
The Legend of Tarzan doles out big beats of action at regular intervals to keep you awake, like a drunkard clashing trashcan lids in an alley late at night. But your eyelids grow heavy anyway. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleJun 29, 2016
In the end, what we have here is a Tarzan movie made by people who don’t understand the appeal of Tarzan. He’s about joy and abandon and the fantasy of living in harmony with creation. He’s not about the struggle in the Congo. Read full review
20
Screen DailyTim GriersonJun 29, 2016
This ungainly and glum tale of the man famously known as Tarzan — who returns to the Congo, reconnecting with his past in the process — slavishly adheres to contemporary blockbuster convention, offering not a single spark of inspiration or real daring. A talented cast led by Alexander Skarsgård scowls through the film, held hostage by a solemn script and ghastly amounts of CG. Read full review
10
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternJun 30, 2016
The Legend of Tarzan, for all its anticolonialist posturing and eminently attractive co-stars, has a dead soul. Read full review
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