Dir: David Yates (12A, 109 mins)
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“Unk! Unk! Ungowa!” These are probably words that will not be spoken in this incarnation of Tarzan as Harry Potter director David Yates takes on the Ape Man, and the impressively ab-ed Alexander Skarsgard steps into the loincloth. Taking a less racist approach to Edgar Rice Burroughs’ character, this adaptation places us in the heart of the Congo Free State in 1858, as Tarzan is called back from his life of civility in London to the jungle where he was raised by apes. He’s now married to Margot Robbie’s spirited Jane, and soon set against greedy Belgian Christoph Waltz, whose mining activities are causing rumbles in the jungle. There’s gorilla vs. man fisticuffs, swinging through trees, lots of shirt-off eye candy and a determinedly old fashioned adventure story told. Samuel L. Jackson adds heft as the real life anti-slavery soldier George Washington Williams, and it’s all no doubt quite stirring stuff. Make like an ape man. Opens July 8
words KEIRON SELF