- “Bravest, interested, completed and the greatest rescuer he ever knowed!”
- ―Tagline
The Rescuers as the film of the same name, that was directed by Russell Brand.
Cast[]
Michael Welch as Timmy Brisby
Miranda Cosgrove as Eliza Stevens
Christopher Daniel Barnes as Prince Charming
Asher Blinkoff as Bartholomew Linonio, Jake Linonio, Phillip Simons and Stuart Foley
John Lithgow as John the Tiger
Christina Applegate as Catherine
ViviAnn Yee as Jamie Brutons
E.G. Daily as Agnes Williams
Grant Bardsley as Butch the Liger
Frank Welker as Hubert the Bear
Awards[]
- 1999 Annie Award in the Technical Achievement in the Field of Animation category (for the Deep Canvas process).
- 2000 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for the song "Xi Shua Shua" by The Flowers.
- 2000 Academy Award for Best Song for the song "Xi Shua Shua" by The Flowers. (beating The New Adventures of Timmy Brisby)
- 2000 Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media.
Trivia[]
- The animation from Season 2 onwards is lighter and smoother than in Season 1.
- Purple is the most common and favored color throughout the TV series due to it being Sofia's signature color.
- At the beginning of the series, the Royal Preparatory Academy's students learn there are 138 kingdoms. That does not count two kingdoms revealed throughout the series: Merroway Cove and Hakalo. Only the Royal Family of Enchancia (Princess Sofia, her parents and siblings) know about these two kingdoms.
- Sofia was the only princess at Royal Prep to ride a horse, but now Amber does. In "Substitute Cedric", Maya can be seen wearing a Derby uniform.
- Sofia the First was the last Disney Junior show to be removed off of Netflix.
- This is the fifth theatrical Disney film to be based on a TV series, after DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp, A Goofy Movie, Doug's First Movie, and Recess: School's Out.
- This is the first time Jerry Stiller and Estelle Harris have worked together since the end of Seinfeld.
- Many different references to past episodes are made in this. Including: Being Mrs. Leadready, The Nose Knows, The Blight Before Christmas, Taint Valentines Day, One Dog's Junk, and more.
- Teacher's Pet: The Movie is the last Disney movie to be based on a One Saturday Morning show.
- During the time this movie released, Disney made a special issue of Disney Adventures Magazine about this movie.
- This movie was rated PG for some mildy crude humor. This is the only movie based off a One Saturday Morning show to get a PG rating.
- This movie was announced in the opening previews of the VHS and DVD releases of Lizzie McGuire: Fashionably Lizzie, Lizzie McGuire: Growing Up Lizzie, Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade, and Recess: All Growed Down. All four titles were released December 9th, 2003.
- When Spot is walking down the beach, he notices a little boy and his pet cocker spaniel, this was an animated homage to Gary Baseman and his dog, Hubcaps.
- The magazine Leonard is reading says "Gary Fashion", which is named after the show's creator.
- The Barry Anger Show is a spoof of The Jerry Springer Show.
- After the credits, the last roll says "In Loving Memory of Hubcaps Baseman". Baseman's dog died while the movie was in development.
- Pretty Boy gets the last line in the series.
- Krank's address (666 Acko Way) is a reference to 666 Park Avenue. "Acko Way" is also Pig Latin for "Wacko".
- This is the first time to have Nathan Lane voice Spot since the season 1 episode You Can't Bite City Hall.
- Pretty Boy's line when he and Mr. Jolly end up in Cuba, "Missed it by that much", is based on Maxwell Smart's catchphrase from Get Smart.
- This is the only One Saturday Morning movie in which a character is killed and then brought back to life.
- This is the only Disney movie to not have the title appearing until the end before the credits roll until Maleficent, as well as the only animated Disney film to do so until Big Hero 6.
- Takeshi Kaneshiro, Charlie Yeung, and Sandra Ng provided the voices of Tarzan, Jane, and Terk respectively in the Cantonese language version of the film.
- Wakin Chau sang all the songs in both the Cantonese and Mandarin language versions of the film.
- The treehouse in Disneyland's Adventureland, was renamed Tarzan's Treehouse in 1999 (it originally was the Swiss Family Treehouse).
- Phil Collins sang the songs not only in the original English, but also in Spanish, German, French, and Italian.
- Tarzan's home, Deep Jungle, is also a playable world in the Disney/Square Enix video game Kingdom Hearts. Sora, Donald Duck, and Goofy had to work with Tarzan to save his world from the Heartless and Clayton. It didn't re-appear in Chain of Memories or Kingdom Hearts II, due to a contract expiration between Disney and the Edgar Rice Burroughs estate.
- Minnie Driver largely ad-libbed the breathless speech in which Jane tells her father and Clayton about meeting Tarzan for the first time.
- Tarzan has been adapted from its book many times over the years and is second only to Dracula in the adaptation chart.
- This was the second time Glenn Close was in any Tarzan film, the first being a non-Disney live-action film called "Greystoke", in which she dubbed Andie MacDowell's portrayal of Jane.
- William Cecil Clayton, the character in the book on whom the film's Clayton is (loosely) based, is Tarzan's cousin; Tarzan's birth name is John Clayton, Earl of Greystoke.
- All of the actors who voiced gorillas also provided their characters' own "gorilla" vocal effects.
- When the lightning flashes in the original movie, viewers can see Clayton's corpse's shadow in the flash, dangling from the vine-turned-noose for a brief moment.
- This makes Clayton's death scene one of the most graphic in Disney's animated history—characters are rarely shown to be dead because of injuries; they usually fall and are never seen again (Ratigan from The Great Mouse Detective and Gaston from Beauty and the Beast), or lie dead, but without a scratch on them (Mufasa from The Lion King and Megara from Hercules).
- Clayton is shown to be a much braver villain than Gaston from Beauty and the Beast, Scar from The Lion King, and Judge Claude Frollo from The Hunchback of Notre Dame (to name a few), not fearing death when Tarzan is about to kill him (except when he fell and tried to pull the vine off his neck).
- Brian Blessed and the late Sir Nigel Hawthorne both did voices in the British film, Freddie as F.R.O.7. as El Supremo (the big bad like Clayton) and the head of the Secret British Services, respectively.
- Alex D. Linz (Young Tarzan) and Jason Marsden (Mungo) both share the same birthday, only Linz was born on Marsden's fourteenth birthday.
- This was the third time dust was seen in a Disney movie. The first time was in The Lion King and the next was in Pocahontas.
- This is the final entry of the Disney Renaissance.
- Tarzan has an unusual body count of six primary or secondary characters (Kala's and Kerchak first son, Tarzan parents, Sabor, Clayton, and Kerchak). Besides, Kala, Kerchak, and Tarzan (twice) are injured along the movie, making Tarzan one of the "bloodiest" Disney movies.
- The first line of dialogue was spoken 8 minutes and 18 seconds into the film.
- Towards the end of the film, when Kerchak passes away after being shot by Clayton, Tarzan does not shed one tear during the scene. It is one of the first deaths of a non-antagonist where no tears are shed.
- When it came to the score tracks on the soundtrack, almost every track had varied pieces. For example, the track titled, "A Wondrous Place" first used the part where Tarzan takes Clayton, Jane, and her father to see the gorillas, then used the musical score part where Kala has brought the baby Tarzan to the jungle and argues with Kerchak over the baby, and finally went to the part where Kerchak accepts Tarzan as his son, passes down the leading position down to him, and dies.
- Tarzan is the second Disney film whose title appears twice (once being in the beginning, and the other time at the end, just before the end credits), the first being The Lion King.
- Tarzan is absent from House of Mouse, except the show's website, Tantor is the only character in the show without any of the other Tarzan characters.
- This was the last animated film from Walt Disney Animation Studios to win an Academy Award until Frozen, incidentally also co-directed by Chris Buck.