Edgar Rice Burroughs' Lord of the Apes swings back onto the big screen in The Legend of Tarzan, an out-of-touch adventure epic that's also a misguided foray into historical fiction. It's not as ridiculous a misfire as its trailers suggested, but The Legend of Tarzan's biggest saving grace of not being as bad you expected isn't saying much for a film directed by acclaimed Harry Potter filmmaker David Yates.
The film's plot is basically just a few set-pieces with origin/backstory flashbacks interspersed detailing how the orphaned baby aristocrat John Clayton (played as an adult by Alexander Skarsgard) was found and raised by African apes after his shipwrecked parents died. The movie starts in 1890, years after John has been found and reassimilated into English aristocracy as the Earl of Greystoke. John and his wife Jane (Margot Robbie) now live in England and have not been back to Africa in almost a decade. Their adventures together there years ago are now the stuff of dime novels. Yes, "Tarzan" is a celebrity, a blue-blooded novelty and the stuff of, well, legend. But political machinations in the Congo draw John back there ... and into becoming Tarzan once again.
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