britain
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Tarzan definitely was not a failure, but it was a disappointment to some degree. All the post-Lion King movies were 'disappointments'. Lion King was the peak and Disney spent the rest of the decade trying to reach or surpass it with no success. Tarzan did well at the box office but it was the most expensive Renaissance film (by far). So those box office returns were bittersweet because of the extremely bloated budget.
Lion King cost $85M less than Tarzan, and made $520M more at the Box Office!
Aladdin cost a staggering $102M less than Tarzan, and made $55M+ more at the Box Office!
Not to mention all the money Lion King and Aladdin made from merch that Tarzan didn't.
When you look at it from that perspective, it was a disappointment.
It also was lacking any audience mandate for what kind of films Disney should produce going forward one way or another. It wasn’t an outright musical, its talked about eye-popping visuals were the CG deep canvas elements, so it didn’t decisively say hand-drawn animation was still popular. It led to another Phil Collins animated film in Brother Bear, but not much else.
I liked it, and I’m grateful It kept the treehouse alive, but I always preferred the Swiss family Robinson version.
Mostly I’d just love to see what kind of new queue solutions can be created for Pirates.