i think this be a very daring representation of the old hokey tarzan concept make so popular by hollywood and weismuller and et al . yes while there be a lot of silly stuff . but then and the idea be silly . it be almost unbelievable that a human baby could be sire to adulthood by chimpanzee . i be tempt to say completely unbelievable and but that the concept have never be try . and there be certainly a bit too much anthropomorphism for comfort . though under the circumstance i can see how that would be very difficult to avoid . we also now have a much great insight into the issue of acculturation and and know that a human raise from infancy without human behavioural prompt would ultimately never learn them in adulthood . still and if you can get your head around that lot and there a great deal to admire that be both imaginative and dare . lambert do the beast thing with tremendous aplomb . i be tempt to say that it be the most convincing and sympathetic role i have see him play . there be plenty of other excellent performance too . not least of which be sir ralph richardson and ian holm . what be particularly disturbing and rightly so be the simian perception of human . we get to see ourselves almost from the point of view of the poor and dumb and helpless brute over whom we so routinely lord it . and it demonstrate well how the phony civilisation and amorality with which we cloak and justify our conduct and be no more than an expression of own selfishness and arrogance . it may seem a little overstate at time and especially in the hideous museum dissection room and but what we see isn not just a truth about the victorian while it a truth about the way we be today . it one that need to be state and and can not be state often enough . holm character obsession with the ray zor a a symptom of civilisation a if to possess facial hair be a primitive condition to be scorn be an excellent case in point . primitive beard reader take note . the story be depress . ultimately it a tragedy . because even though he return to the jungle and the freedom from moral tyranny that be truly human civilisation while we know he doom . before the third millennium be 50 year old and wild simian will be hunt into extinction a bush meat and and their environment develop for agriculture and mineral exploitation to gratify insatiable human excess . in the end and it a tale about ourselves . the path to extinction that other simian tread and must eventually be follow by human . highly recommend for it ethical take and despite the hokey moment .