Is it entertaining? In a so-bad-it’s-hilarious way, absolutely. The dialogue is pure cheese (“Jane shame. Tarzan no shame. Tarzan… free.”). The musical interludes are bizarre Casio-keyboard ballads. And the voice acting ranges from “overly dramatic” to “sounds like they recorded this in a closet between sandwiches.”
The plot is loose. Jane, an explorer from Victorian England, finds herself alone in the deep jungle. Tarzan (voiced by an actor who sounds suspiciously like a mid-tier impressionist) is less “Lord of the Apes” and more “himbo with a loincloth.” The “shame” in the title refers to the social embarrassment Jane feels as she slowly abandons her corsets and stiff-upper-lip propriety for jungle freedom. tarzan shame of jane 1995
Is Tarzan: Shame of Jane good? No. Not by any traditional metric. Is it entertaining
For collectors of weird animation history, this is a must-see (once). For fans of actual Tarzan lore, it’s an affront. For everyone else? It’s a 70-minute time capsule of a moment when the jungle got very, very weird. Tarzan no shame