Cert PG
99 mins
BBFC advice: Contains mild violence, threat
And here we have every reference to Tarzan that film-makers could find rolled into one.
The old favourite: "Me, Tarzan, you Jane", our hero being the Greystoke heir and looking a little bit like Christopher Lambert, the "Taaaaaar" yell and even Johnny Weissmuller's famous "wrestling crocodile" scene.
Sadly, what this latest animated version of the famous story lacks is real excitement.
This isn't helped by CGI which is surprisingly clunky and voicework which lacks much-needed inflection.
There is also the matter of apes whose actions are so human-like that they reminded me of Rowan Atkinson's famous gorilla sketch on Not The Nine O'Clock News.
For the uninitiated, Tarzan has been brought up by the apes after the death of his parents in a helicopter crash deep in the jungle.
His father, John Greystoke (voiced by John Deklin), was an environmentalist who was searching for the meteor which collided with the earth millions of years ago, precipitating the wipe-out of the dinosaurs.
Following his demise, his company has been taken over by an unscrupulous money-grabber (Trevor St John) who tricks researcher, Jane (Spencer Locke), into taking him to the remote site.
But his grand plan to strip the area of its natural resources is threatened by our hero, the long lost Greystoke heir (Kellan Lutz).
The Tarzan tale has been given many different guises since it was originally written by Edgar Rice Burroughs. This, I have to report, is not one of the more memorable.
Maybe Reinhard Klooss's film will appeal to very young children but those who have a greater sense of adventure will be disappointed.
Laughs: none
Jumps: none
Vomit: none
Nudity: none
Overall rating: 4/10