Article: Phil Collins can't swing; Tarzan slathers millions in razzle-dazzle on a two-cent script. Plus: burnished performances in Shining City.(Movie review)

JUST TRY IT, HIPSTER. Try to sit through the first two minutes of Tarzan, Disney's latest big-budget Broadway musical, and act blase. When you take your seat and a storm-tossed ship seems to float holographically before you, pretend you're not intrigued by how the Imagineers did it. When a blast of lightning kills the lights, and the kids in the audience scream, deny that you yelped, too. Because when video projections, rumbling sound, and bodies twisting twenty feet off the ground combine to form a startling image of shipwrecked survivors trying to claw their way to the beach, no matter how cool you like to act, you are going to be amazed. Briefly.

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