Bunchy, braided tendrils on a brass tray may hold little interest on their own, but once you spot them again on a carpet, then on a tombstone, then circling the rim of a cup, you realize how ornament, usually regarded as the equivalent of background music, is essential to creating a coherent visual universe.
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Artistically, the filmmakers seem so obsessed with animating their jungle milieu _ and with Tarzan's bunchy musculature _ that the more mundane aspects of storytelling get short shrift . A newfangled " deep canvas " technique mimics 3-D and provides a cavernous, richly detailed backdrop for the ape-man's rambles, many of which are dashing fun.
