The problem with Disney...

I love Disney. For as long as I can remember, it has dominated my life. From watching movies as a kid and then later, falling in love with the Disney parks — reigniting my passion. I honestly sometimes think they just can't do any wrong.

They do get away with A LOT of things in their movies, and we just allow it because it's Disney; things like magic, mythical creatures, talking animals & sentient toys.

However, I recently watched one of my childhood favourites on Disney+ and spotted a few details that I just can't let go unquestioned.

The movie is Tarzan (a classic) - and my mind was seemingly blown the moment that Tarzan spoke to Jane for the first time. And there's a very genuine reason.

I'm happy to accept the fact that Tarzan can freely communicate with all of the wild animals in the jungle. At the end of the day, its an animated kids movie.

This communication needs to be easily portrayed to us (the audience.) So, obviously Disney provide voice actors for us to understand. But as we know, in reality the gorillas and elephants wouldn't actually communicate with the voices of Glenn Close or Wayne Knight, but with grunts and gestures. This is demonstrated when we see Tarzan 'talking' to the apes from the point of view of the humans.

So, we have to assume that the very first human voices Tarzan ever encounters are those of Jane, Clayton and Professor Porter. All with very British accents.

So, why on Earth does Tarzan dictate his words with a very obvious American accent when he chats with Jane later on in the movie?! This keeps me awake at night.

The second instance occurs later on in the film, when Tarzan returns to the site of his birth-parents' death, accompanied only by his mother, Kala (a gorilla, by the way.)

After seeing the room and taking in his surroundings, Tarzan returns outside to his mum, fully clothed in his late father's attire... (again - and I cannot stress this enough - he is accompanied only by Kala, a wild ape.)

He is fully clothed; shoes, trousers, shirt, waistcoat and dinner jacket, all in the correct order and all correctly fastened. Plus cufflinks?! Can anybody seriously show me the moment where Jane showed him how to fasten cufflinks?

Tarzan is (supposedly) 18 years old by the end of the movie. Let's assume, for argument's sake that he is about 6 months old when he's rescued by Kala. He has spent 17 and a half years of his life separated from human civilisation, wearing nothing but a piece of cloth, raised by (and living as) a wild ape.

Where did he learn how to dress himself so thoroughly? Because that wasn't covered in the 'Strangers Like Me' scene (the best song in the film, by the way.) Jane introduces him to human life outside of the jungle, showing him stills of other individuals doing everyday "human" stuff. But at no point does she dress him or teach him how to negotiate buttons and shoelaces.

Some people may argue that he see's how Professor Porter and Clayton are dressed, recalls how they look and follows suit. That argument doesn't hold any validity for me. He wouldn't be able to successfully button a waistcoat or tie shoelaces just from simple recall.

Finally, (see image below.)

There is no way on Earth that he could possibly be holding the weight of both himself and Jane with just the use of his big to and index toe. Nobody is that strong!

And what about balance?! You're telling me he seriously has the core strength to be able to uphold his upper body whilst holding his beloved Jane?! I'd be impressed if I wasn't convinced it was complete bull...

A man being raised by apes, talking to animals and successfully wrestling a leopard to death, I can accept. But I think this is just too much of a stretch.

Maybe I'm over thinking it...