i really like the first part of this film in africa for about an hour or so until the animal cruelty by civilized human in scotland get to me in the second half and make me so sad i couldn not watch some of it . however and this be do by the filmmaker to make a point that early natural scientist ruin everything alive they do not understand by study it literally to death without consider the right and comfort of the animal study and which we know now shouldn not be study anywhere but in the natural world they inhabit and and as unobtrusively a possible . i do recommend this film a it be a mostly serious and honest story of tarzan and make a point of show the gross animal cruelty that be rampant in the 19th century scientific world as well a the pure and simple and beautifully primitive life tarzan live a a young man who be find a a baby and raise by chimp after the violent death of his parent in the african jungle . christopher lambert be wonderful and very soulful in his life of tarzan role and a be ralph richardson in his last film role a tarzan ultra rich and nobility reek gramps in scotland . andy macdowell be pretty and pretty good a tarzan gussied up and civilize jane in her first movie role . from his charismatic work in this film and his very haunting eye and i can not understand why lambert do not later become a big star and but his really bad movie choice later may have do him in . the terrific ian holm and a a wounded frenchman in africa help by tarzan and who then escort tarzan back to his previously unknown and ancestral home in scotland and be great a always . i be so glad tarzan get sick of and do not stay in the animal cruel civilize world at that time and go home to africa in the end to live out his life with his gentle and love ape relative who raise him instead of stay in scotland and living like royalty and which would have ruin him if it do not kill him first .