Tarzan (1999)

Original review: A shrug-of-the-shoulders movie. Not bad, but nothing special. It keeps you interested, and I suppose that's enough. And Phil Collins--despite being everyone's favorite musical whipping boy--actually did a pretty good job on the songs.
Re-view review: Weirdly, it’s the most Disney stuff in this film that gets in the way of this movie. The story works far better when the focus is on the Tarzan-Jane interaction, or even just Tarzan's relationship with his gorilla family. What is less successful is the comedic characters and their antics, which create jarring shifts in tone every time the sillier stuff starts up. Thus, this film tries to walk the fine line that The Lion King did before it, but doesn’t quite succeed. What does succeed, in a big way, is the animation, which is excellent throughout and occasionally, in some sequences, downright spectacular. It’s some of the best artwork in the whole canon, at least to this point and arguably right up to today’s works. The songs mostly work, too, though more so, again, where they support the main story and not the humorous antics. Mix it all together and you get a flick that largely works, if you forgive its more noticeable faults.