Tarzan (1999 film/My Version)

Tarzan is a 1999 American animated adventure drama film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, Caravan Pictures (final animated film produced), RKO Pictures and Avnet Kerner Productions and released by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Pictures Distribution. The 37th animated feature in the Disney Animated Canon and the ninth and final entry in the Disney Renaissance era, it is based upon the Tarzan of the Apes novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs, and is the only major motion picture version of the Tarzan property to be animated. It is directed by Kevin Lima and Chris Buck with a screenplay written by Tab Murphy, Bob Tzudiker and Noni White and stars Tony Goldwyn, Minnie Driver, Brian Blessed, Nigel Hawthorne (in his final role before his death in 2001), Rosie O'Donnell, Wayne Knight, Glenn Close, and Lance Henriksen.

The film takes place in the jungles of Africa where Tarzan grows up to be one of the apes led by Kala and Kerchak after their child was murdered by Sabor. When he turns into an adult, he sees a woman from England named Jane Porter, her father Professor Archimedes Q. Porter, and the hunter Clayton, who plans to capture the apes, as he shows them his ape family.

Tarzan is considered by many to be the last major box office success of the Disney Renaissance before the studio's decline in the early to mid 2000s (sometimes known as Disney's "Second Dark Age"), although some consider Dinosaur (2000) to be the last film in the Disney Renaissance. When it was released on June 18, 1999, its production budget of $130 million made it the most expensive animated film ever made until it was topped by Disney's own $140 million Treasure Planet in 2002. It was also the first Disney animated feature to open at first place at the North American box office since Pocahontas (1995). It received positive reviews from critics who praised its animation, visual effects, songs, musical score, direction, voice performances (particularly Goldwyn, Driver, Blessed, Hawthorne, O'Donnell, Knight, Close and Henriksen), and screenplay, although the source material received its criticism. Eventually, it grossed $448.1 million against a $130 million budget.

Tarzan spawned an animated television series The Legend of Tarzan which aired on Disney Channel in 2001 as it turned into a direct-to-video titled Tarzan & Jane in 2002 and a direct-to-video sequel Tarzan II in 2005.