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Jane is terrified when Tarzan and his ape friends abduct her, but when she returns to. Parker’s beautiful daughter Jane arrives unexpectedly to join them. This movie is so bad it's not even funny as modern irony, a la Showgirls. James Parker and Harry Holt are on an expedition in Africa in search of the elephant burial grounds that will provide enough ivory to make them rich. In fact it was only those responsible for the screenplay that saw work dry up: Writer Tom Rowe never worked in Hollywood again co-writing partner Gary Goddard went on to "write and produce" theme park rides in Las Vegas. It's amazing that Tarzan didn't immediately kill the career of everyone involved with it. Often, the white men don't understand it and they try to shoot poor Tarzan, who ambles away into the woods when bullets start flying. Jane or dad end up in danger, and Tarzan saves the day. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Popular Posts. Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest. Not that it matters, because Tarzan is so pathetically stupid it's impossible to care about any of its technical flaws. Tarzan, the Ape Man 1981 Full Movie Posted by Unknown at 9:29 PM. Horizontal wipes annoy the hell out of us, and of course, the entire freakin' movie is in slow motion. He can't focus the camera or hold it still. The sound cuts in and out as if the microphone was in someone's pocket. Scenes are thrown together seemingly at random. (Errr.) There's not a well-crafted moment in the entire movie. Whoever gave him a camera (ahem: "Produced by Bo Derek") should have been lobotomized. It's Tarzan to the rescue, riding elephants!ĭirector John Derek (Bo's husband) proved that he had no understanding whatsoever of filmmaking. Not long after that, Jane finds herself captured and being bathed by natives, then slathered in mud. Soon she encounters a beefcake guy with a waxed chest, and by the time they meet a second time she's encouraging him to grope her under her invariably wet shirt. Jane (Derek) heads to Africa to visit dad (poor, poor Richard Harris), who's on safari. While on an African expedition with her father. With Bo Derek, Richard Harris, John Phillip Law, Miles OKeeffe. It certainly has nothing to do with the Tarzan story as we know it. Tarzan the Ape Man: Directed by John Derek. What happens en route to that is almost incidental.

The entire purpose of the movie is to show off Bo Derek's body. I scarcely know where to start dissecting this debacle. FUN FACT! United Artists was sued by the Edgar Rice Burroughs estate over the film.Rightfully roasted as one of the worst films of all time, the 1981 reimagination of Tarzan the Ape Man proves that you can take Bo Derek to water, but you can't make her not get naked and play around in it. Overall, "Tarzan the Ape Man" is about as bad a film as can be made (I hope Richard Harris was paid handsomely for appearing), but it's sooooooooo bad, that it's absolutely worth watching, which is why I suppose Turner Classic Movies chose to air this unintentional laugh riot. These scenes were all likely intended to be titillating, but similarly to "Showgirl," they are anything but.

Oh, and over the end credits, Bo is pawed by a real ape, an orangutan, which I'm hoping was some sort of nod to the 70s/80s ape cycle of comedies (i.e "Every Which Way But Loose," "Going Ape," "BJ and the Bear," etc.). Aother scene has Tarzan rescuing Jane from a tribe of natives who roughly wash her and then cover her in mud, which I'm assuming director John Derek (Bo's husband) meant to be erotic. High points of camp include Tarzan pawing at Jane in a very odd early courtship scene. Pretty, but talentless Bo Derek plays Jane. "Tarzan the Ape Man" is so awful that it does achieve Ed Wood/Showgirls levels of so-bad-it's-good, which makes this film essential viewing for fans of bad cinema. Emmanuelle 2 L antivierge (1975) MORE Emmanuelle returns to her husband in Hong Kong and proceeds to have several extramarital affairs with his knowledge, of course. Instead of this being a story about a man who was raised by apes, it's a story about the sexual awakening of Jane, and it's a ludicrously awful awakening. Edgar Rice Burroughs is reduced to softcore porn.