Even the film’s poster consists of Bo swinging through the jungle on a vine with Tarzan nowhere in sight. Tarzan does not appear until halfway through the film and has no dialogue when he does. For one, it is a misnomer to call it a Tarzan film – it should have been called Jane. Tarzan (Miles O’Keeffe) and Jane (Bo Derek)Īlas, the film they produced is a ludicrously empty bore. This allowed them to go to Sri Lanka to shoot, which does afford some lavish location photography. The Dereks managed to obtain a then modest $6.5 million budget for the film. To say that Tarzan the Ape Man, the Dereks’ take on Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan of the Apes (1912), is their best film and Jane the best written role that Bo Derek ever had is no particular recommendation. The expression on her face throughout these films is entirely vacant. The films are abysmal, made all the more so by Bo’s phenomenal lack of acting talent and their being sold around the premise of her willingness to shed her clothes at the drop of a hat. All of these were founded on Bo Derek undressed – nothing else. Each of these was worse than the last, including the excruciating likes of Fantasies (1981), Bolero (1984) and Ghosts Can’t Do It (1990). He put Bo through four films beginning with Tarzan the Ape Man here. John used the springboard of Bo’s newfound celebrity to launch his own career as a director. This was managed by her husband John Derek, a former actor who was thirty years her senior. It was also at this very instant of Bo’s success that her career began to plummet. Bo Derek’s supporting role in the film catapulted her to become an instant worldwide sex symbol. Bo came to fame in 10 (1979), a Blake Edwards comedy where Dudley Moore plays a man going through a midlife crisis who becomes fixated on her. Bo Derek was one of the genuine no-talent phenomena of the era. Unless you want to compile a list of the worst films ever.In the 00s, there was Paris Hilton in the 1990s, there was Pamela Anderson in the early 1980s, the equivalent was Bo Derek. The worst moment of all is the dreary slow-motion snake wrestling sequence. The characters moving around in front of the scenery are so banal and idiotic that the film fails on every level. The backdrop is nicely photographed, but then again anyone can design a nice postcard. Richard Harris's performance is energetic and entertaining, but why he bothered to put in such a lively performance is anybody's guess. O'Keefe is unquestionably the worst Tarzan ever, and Derek is probably the worst Jane. During a jungle expedition, she goes missing and is rescued by ape man Tarzan (Miles O'Keefe), only to fall in love with him. The story focuses more on Jane (the talentless Bo Derek), who arrives in Africa to reunite with her tyrannical, boozy, abusive father (Richard Harris).
TARZAN THE APE MAN 1981 PELISPEDIA MOVIE
yes! This movie really is right down there with the worst twenty or so films ever made. Can it really surpass Plan 9 From Outer Space? Is it as idiotic as Astro Zombies? Is it as boring as The Bible.in the Beginning? Is it as unintentionally funny as The Swarm? The answer is.
The main element of fun is experiencing just how bad it really is. So, just how bad is the 1981 version of Tarzan the Ape Man? Everybody knows that it has a reputation as one of the very worst movies ever made, so when you sit down to watch it, you know it's going to be rubbish.
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