reviewing the movie retrospectively for"the encyclopedia of fantasy", john grant comments that the movie "is widely regarded as the direst of the tarzan movies, but it has enough good bits (including some spectacular photography and moments of exquisite wrongness) that, if cut by about 40 minutes, it would be highly regarded. as it is, it leaves a nasty taste: its intention seems to be to appeal to those who find eroticism in the sexual humiliation of women."