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He learns how to do things from the animals of the jungle. After Kerchak tells Kala that Tarzan will never be one of the family, Tarzan runs off into the jungle. The dare goes wrong when the elephants stampede into the gorilla territory and almost kill a baby gorilla. One day, Terk and her friends dare Tarzan to get a hair from an elephant's tail. They include the female ape Terk and the male elephant Tantor. He tells her the baby will never replace the child they lost.Īs a child, Tarzan makes friends with several animals and other gorillas in the family. Kala decides to raise the child as her own. Sabor attacks her, but Kala and the baby escape without being hurt. She follows the sound across the jungle to the treehouse. She hears the cries of the orphaned baby.

One of them is Kala, whose own child was killed by the leopard. Meanwhile, a family of gorillas are travelling to their feeding grounds.

They are later attacked and killed by a vicious leopard called Sabor. The couple builds a treehouse to live in. They become stranded off the African coast near uncharted jungles. It was the first to have a production budget of $100 million since The Hunchback of Notre Dame.Ī British couple and their baby son has survived a shipwreck. It was the first Disney animated feature to start at #1 in the box office since Pocahontas.

To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails.Tarzan is a 1999 animated movie based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel Tarzan of the Apes and made by The Walt Disney Company. There's lots of cartoon action: an escape from a burning ship the leopard's fierce threat to the animal kingdom in numerous scenes Tarzan's fight to the death with the leopard rampaging frightened elephants and, finally, villainous humans attacking and trapping Tarzan and his gorilla family, resulting in a lengthy final battle. There's also a climactic onscreen death of the heroic leader of the gorilla band, shot by a scheming human. Though these incidents occur off-screen, in both cases the aftermath is clear: grieving gorilla parents coming to terms with their loss, and Tarzan's parents' lifeless bodies seen surrounded by bloody paw prints on the floor of their house. In separate instances a baby gorilla and Tarzan's parents are killed by a rampaging leopard. Several important sympathetic characters die in this film, some off-screen and some onscreen. Parents need to know that Tarzan is a 1999 Disney movie.