Left alone in the wilds of Africa, Bo strips down and frolics in the crystal blue waters. Bo comes up with the bright idea of staying behind and taking a bath, assuring her father that she’ll catch up later. What’s even funnier than his vociferous questioning of God is that the skies answer back with a rumble of thunder.Īfter traveling a little further, the expedition finds the great inland sea. “Why did you do that?! Why?!” Harris shouts at the heavens. Their climbing rope slowly rubs and frays against a jagged piece of rock until a native extra plunges to his death. In the morning, each expedition member scales the face of the plateau. “Fear is intoxicating.” When another Tarzan yell scares off most of his native bearers, Harris screams, “Oh shut up you boring son of a bitch!” He then proceeds, at the top of his lungs, to give a dissertation on the excitement of the unknown. Harris explains that the creature making the noise is Tarzan, the great white ape. While sitting cozily in their tents they hear a familiar yodeling war cry. Moments later, Bo and the rest of the crew are all packed up and set off on their journey.Īfter several days, they make camp at the base of a huge plateau. “Any expedition on this continent is no place for a woman.” Harris chauvinistically explains. Parker’s ultimate goal is to find the legendary elephant’s graveyard. Now doesn’t that make you a first-class bastard?” she asks.īecause she so closely resembles his dead wife, Parker takes more than a fatherly interest in Jane. “Like a trophy, you posed with mother and child and then you were gone. The family reunion at dinner doesn’t go very well.

As Parker, Harris seems to think shouting at the top of his lungs equals a performance. Any under-emoting by Derek and Law is more than made up for by the hammy acting of Richard Harris. Upon arrival at camp, Jane is greeted by the expedition’s photographer played by the handsome, but wooden, John Phillip Law. Apparently she isn’t worried about crocodiles or piranha.

Before the credits are even over, Bo strips off her virginal white dress and goes for a swim in the river. She hires a boat to take her to the camp of James Parker, an Allan Quartermain-type explorer who is also her long lost father. After all, a bunch of dirty old men would much rather hear tales about a nubile blonde than the Lord of the Apes.Īs Jane, Bo Derek is covered from head to toe in turn of the century finery. This storytelling device might explain why Tarzan the Ape Man (1981) focuses on Jane’s point of view. What it’s all about: The adventure begins with a narrator (Wilfrid Hyde-White) relating the legend of Tarzan to his fellow club members, one of whom is presumably Edgar Rice Burroughs. You know this isn’t your father’s Tarzan movie when the MGM logo appears on screen and the lion’s roar is replaced with a Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan yell. The most beautiful woman of our time in the most erotic adventure of all time.

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