The Legend of Tarzan

Let me start by saying that I have been watching Tarzan movies since I was a kid.  I have seen Tarzan in every possible situation you can think of, including New York!  So I was expecting a ho hum story full of the same, old same old.  I must say I was pleasantly surprised.  This Tarzan shows us Lord Greystoke, eight years out of the jungle, living in his palatial estate with lovely wife Jane. How he became Tarzan is told in flashbacks throughout the movie.  I loved the scenes between Tarzan and his ape family.  You could feel the love Tarzan and his mother had for each other.  The effects are top notch.  The main actors, Alexander Skarsgard, Margot Robbie, Samuel L.  Jackson ( providing some much appreciated comic relief) and Christoph Waltz, all do a nice job with a script that is full of holes and is kind of slow at times.  Even so, there is much action, the obligatory Tarzan yell and plenty of  animals.  If you have never seen or read about Tarzan, this movie isn’t a bad place to start.