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Tarzoon: Shame of the Jungle (French: Tarzoon, la honte de la jungle) is a 1975 French/Belgian adult animated comedy film. It is a parody of the 1932 film Tarzan the Ape Man directed by cartoonist Picha and Boris Szulzinger. The film was the first foreign-animated film to receive an X rating in the United States.[1]
An English dub was released in 1979 where the English cast consists of Johnny Weissmuller, Jr. (the son of noted Tarzan actor Johnny Weissmuller), with comedians John Belushi, Bill Murray, Christopher Guest, and Brian Doyle-Murray.[2]
This film is also known as Jungle Burger in the United Kingdom.
Plot[]
The film takes place in the deepest part of Africa - "Bush Country". The evil, bald, and multi-breasted Queen Bazonga, who resides in a blimp, inside a cave shaped like a women's legs spread open revealing her vagina, plans to conquer Earth. Before she can do that, however, she wishes to have a full set of hair so people can take her seriously. Her two-headed assistant, called the Charles Of The Pits, suggests a "scalp transplant", an experiment where someone else's hair is transplanted to another person's head. Bazonga demands that she wants the hair of June, the maid of Shame: Ruler of the jungle. Bazonga sends out her penis soldiers to kidnap June.
Meanwhile, that night, June kicks out Shame from their home after another night of unsuccessful sex. She ends up sleeping with Flicka, Shame's monkey pal. The next morning, Bazonga's soldiers barge in and kidnap June, but only after they have an orgy with her. Shame hears June's screams and comes to her rescue, but he is too late. Shame eventually decides to save his mate and immediately sets out on his quest with Flicka.
As he swings through the jungle, an airplane crashes in a giant mud pit, containing a crew of four explorers set out to find Shame. The crew include the eccentric Professor Cedric Addlepate, the ditzy Stella Starlet, the grumbling Brutish (who only wants to find Shame for fame), and his assistant Short, a nervous black man. As the crew wander through the jungle, they eventually find Shame. Before they can get acquainted, Brutish and Short step in to take Shame back to the plane, leaving the Professor to be eaten alive by savage monkeys known as "Molar Men" while Stella is tied up to a tree. The Molar Men catch up with Brutish and Short and eat them both. They free Shame from the cage, but only to try and eat him. Shame gets saved by a beer-guzzling frat boy named Craig Baker who flies on a carpet run by a flock of birds. After a lengthy conversation with Shame, Craig gets drunk and falls off the carpet. Shame also falls off, but is saved by Flicka.
Shame and Flicka eventually make it to Bazonga's lair. Flicka is told to stay behind while Shame goes to get June. Unfortunately, he has caught Bazonga's soldiers while they were on a practice drill. Shame is taken to Bazonga, who tries to convince Shame to join her side and rule the world with her. Shame says he only wants June, which enrages Bazonga. Shame runs off to find June, who is about to receive the scalp transplant from the bickering Charles Of The Pits. Bazonga's soldiers try to stop Shame, which results in the blimp moving and main generator exploding, which sends the place on fire. Bazonga cannot escape from the fire in her office. Shame sees this and saves her by igniting the Emergency Fire Alarm, which sends out more of Bazonga's soldiers to cover themselves in condoms and dive inside Bazonga's vagina until she explodes. One of the heads on the Charles Of The Pits kills the other while in a heated conversation. Shocked by this, the other head sets June free. They try to escape, but the Charles Of The Pits is killed by acid semen shooting all over the place.
Shame eventually finds June, who keeps bickering to Shame while they find a way to escape the blimp, as it drills its way out of the cave and flies all around the jungle. The two find an emergency two-seated parachute, and spring out of the blimp, which finally crashes onto Bazonga's cave, destroying it forever. As June kisses Shame for his bravery, they both spot Stella Starlet, who becomes the leader of the Molar Men, and plans to conquer Hollywood.
Cast[]
| Character | Original | English |
|---|---|---|
| Narrator | Bernard Dhéran | Bob Perry |
| Chief M'Bulu | Claude Bertrand | Christopher Guest |
| Charles Of The Pits | Pierre Trabaud | Brian Doyle-Murray |
| Roger Carel | Andrew Duncan | |
| Short | Christopher Guest | |
| Queen Bazonga | Paule Emanuele | Pat Bright |
| June | Arlette Thomas | Emily Prager |
| Shame | Georges Aminel | Johnny Weissmuller, Jr. |
| Georges Aminel (archive footage) | ||
| Professor Cedric Addlepate | Guy Piérauld | Guy Sorel |
| Reporter | Philippe Dumat | Bill Murray |
| Stella Starlet | Laurence Badie | Judy Graubart |
| Brutish | Marc de Georgi | Adolph Caesar |
| Nurse | Lita Recio | Christopher Guest |
Additional English Voices[]
- John Belushi (Craig Baker)
- Deya Kent
- M. Vernon
- Tony Jackson
- John Baddeley
Reception[]
Critical reception[]
The R-rated version of the film received negative reviews. Vincent Canby of The New York Times said that the film was an "unsuccessful attempt to parody the life and adventures of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan."[1] Tam Allen in The Village Voice called the film "an uncomfortably accurate reflection of that civic eyesore known as toilet art," and compared it unfavorably to Fritz the Cat and Down and Dirty Duck.(citation needed) Playboy praised the film's artwork, but felt that the film became "monotonous after a good start — still, in the off-the-wall category, the most literate prurient and amusing challenge to community standards since Fritz the Cat."[1]
Censoring[]
The film was banned by the New Zealand Board of Censors in 1976.[3]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Cohen, Karl F (1997). Forbidden Animation: Censored Cartoons and Blacklisted Animators in America. North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., 90–92. ISBN 0-7864-0395-0.
- ↑ (2009) The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons, 3rd, New York: Checkmark Books. ISBN 978-0-8160-6600-1.
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/chief-censor-of-films_35268a
External links[]
Tarzoon: Shame of the Jungle at IMDb- Tarzoon: Shame of the Jungle at the Big Cartoon DataBase
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