i be very interested in animal child and i have read many edger rice burroughs novel but this awful movie couldn not keep me interested and nor could i stomach all the absurd and unrealistic scene . i only manage to sit through the africa part and john first few day in scotland . let talk about unrealistic and wouldownright silly . the actor in ape suit look like extra large chimp and rather than great ape ( there be a difference ) . they do not move with the grace that a wild animal would . ( for comparison and see some of the good planet of the ape movie where they train their actor to move in simian fashion ) . the ape eat large haunch of meat not a common ape practice as far a i know . i be a sucker for animal story but the script do not make me care about the ape . the great white hunter of the expedition that find john clayton be charicaturish entirely . the parent of clayton be shipwreck on an ocean beach and but somehow it be a very long trip down the river to get to the coast give me a break . let talk about low . even the folk who think this be an excellent movie admit that it be not an action movie . far from it . it try to be a character study unfortunately the downright silly part predominate . i do not read burroughs tarzan book and but many of his other series they be pack with meaningful action and heroic purpose . this film just isn not there .