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Mixed or average reviews - based on 21 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 21
  2. Negative: 9 out of 21
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  1. Variety
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    Aug 7, 2014
    60
    Another sumptuous-looking hour based on a famous hero, infused with scads of potential but also some problematic underpinnings. [1 Oct 2003, p.7]
  2. Orlando Sentinel
    Reviewed by: Hal Boedeker
    Aug 7, 2014
    60
    Tarzan seems like such an iffy premise for a series. Our hero is evidently going to help Jane with her caseload, proving he can make it you-know-where and be top of the heap. Don't we have enough police in prime time so Tarzan can be himself? [5 Oct 2003, p.4]
  3. Newark Star-Ledger
    Reviewed by: Matt Zoller Seitz
    Aug 7, 2014
    50
    Silly as it is, the show works as pop-mythic eye candy. The pilot alone a motherlode of iconic pictures. [3 Oct 2003, p.53]
  4. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Robert Bianco
    Aug 7, 2014
    50
    Him Tarzan, me bored. [3 Oct 2003, p.11E]
  5. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Phil Rosenthal
    Aug 7, 2014
    50
    The WB is hoping you'll be so agog over the atmospherics and Aussie underwear model Travis Fimmel's sculpted pecs and abs that you don't notice the story's a little thin in this New York update of the old Edgar Rice Burroughs tale. [3 Oct 2003, p.49]
  6. Cleveland Plain Dealer
    Reviewed by: Mark Dawidziak
    Aug 7, 2014
    40
    The real strain is in trying to turn Tarzan into a crime fighter like Spider-Man, complete with the gravity-defying leaps and whoosh-wham special effects. [4 Oct 2003, p.E6]
  7. Reviewed by: Rob Owen
    Aug 7, 2014
    40
    Despite being underwhelmed by the premiere, I'm not ready to write "Tarzan" off just yet.