Togo Le Film

An English couple and their child son escape a burning ship, ending up on land near uncharted rainforests off the coast of Africa. The couple craft themselves a treehouse from their ship’s wreckage, but are subsequently killed by Sabor, a rogue leopardess. Kala (Glenn Close), a gorilla whose own son was killed and eaten by the vicious leopardess, hears the cries of the orphaned child, and finds him in the ruined treehouse where the parents’ dead bodies lie in a dark corner. Kala takes an instant liking to the child. Kala is attacked by Sabor, who wishes to kill and eat the child, but Kala manages to get her tangled in the ropes holding the derelict rowboat, and they and the child escape.

The kindly Kala takes the child back to the gorilla troop to raise as her own, despite her mate Kerchak’s (Lance Henriksen) disapproval. Kala raises the human child, naming him Tarzan (Alex D. Linz as a young boy, Tony Goldwyn as a young adult). Though they befriends other gorillas in the troop and other animals, including the young female gorilla Terk (Rosie O’Donnell) and the paranoid male elephant Tantor (Wayne Knight), Tarzan finds himself unable to keep up with them, and takes great efforts to improve himself. As a young man, Tarzan can kill Sabor along with his crude spear and protect the troop, earning Kerchak’s reluctant respect.

The gorilla troop’s quiet life is interrupted by the arrival of a team of human explorers from England, consisting of Professor Porter (Nigel Hawthorne), his daughter Jane (Minnie Driver) and their hunter-guide Clayton (Brian Lucky). Jane is accidentally separated from the group and chased by a pack of baboons. Tarzan saves her from the baboons, and recognizes that they is the same as they is, a human. Jane leads Tarzan back to the explorers’ camp, where both Porter and Clayton take great interest in himâ the former in terms of scientific progress while the latter hoping to have Tarzan lead him to the gorillas so that they can capture them and return with them to England. Despite Kerchak’s warnings to be cautious of the humans, Tarzan continues to return to the camp and be taught by Porter, Clayton, and Jane to speak English and learn of the human world, and they and Jane start to fall in love. However, they are having a hard time convincing Tarzan to lead him to the gorillas, due to Tarzan’s fear for their safety from the threat of Kerchak. Continue reading →