And like Kuzco interrupted the first film to tell the story to get back to him, he interrupts this one a couple times just to be included. It reminds the viewer how much we actually miss him while the story involves everyone but the main character from the first movie. Cars 2 made the same mistake when it ended up being all about Mater the second time around. But, for Kronk's New Groove , the first half of the movie is really the best. Yzma returns, brilliantly having been turned back to a human with just a cat's tail remaining, but the wittiness does end there.
Her grand plan this time? To swindle old people out of their money by selling them slime in a bottle as a "youth potion. The second half of the movie is a love story where Kronk meets Ms. Birdwell, a fellow Jr. Chipmunks counselor. She's basically a Mary Poppins type character, and their scenes together quickly get unbearable as they constantly call each other "Kronky Poo" and "Birdy Poo" Birdy Poo. They went there. It's pretty painful. It all ends with a moral focus on being loyal to friends and doing the right thing, but it's tough to see how the journey getting to that resolution was worth it.
If you're a fan of the film and don't care about bonus features, this is the perfect set for you. But if you'd like more than just the two movies, you're out of luck. It's definitely the best picture presentation of the movie ever released, but the omission of bonus content is truly criminal!
Music News Headlines. Search JFH. Who cares? I never took seriously the charge that Disney's artistic decisions were made by its marketing department, anyway. That was the charitable explanation for why it made considerably less, inflation adjusted, than every other one of Disney's animated features from "Beauty and the Beast" on, and failed to even get nominated for a "Best Picture" Oscar in a year in which they had difficulty coming up with half-plausible candidates.
The uncharitable explanation is probably closer to the truth. People are idiots. This is a classic - but it's also animated - by pencil on paper rather than finger on keyboard - so who will ever notice? Doubt me? You won't once you've seen it. Everyone to speak of who did reports that it's very, very funny, and they're right - and trust me, nothing is ever THIS funny unless it's clever and witty as well. It goes without saying that their character animation is unmatched in its brilliance and I've already used the words "humour" and "wit"?
Well, I'll use them again. In addition there's a charming dottiness that a merely hip film could never quite capture. Art direction is perfectly judged and consistent throughout, with a pleasing absence of because-we-can computer effects. Here's just ONE example of what I'm talking about. One side of the emperor's palace consists of this HUGE golden face, and we find out in a funny scene but they're all funny that all excess water is drained out through the nostrils.
But that's not all we see. We see characters crawling out of the nostrils, we see someone dangling like a big booger on a rope out of one of the nostrils - one snot gag after another - yet no explicit camerawork ever draws our attention to them.
Not only do the characters deliver their lines perfectly deadpan, the camera delivers its images perfectly deadpan. It's just perfect. Two more things I should mention. Unlike Disney's other recent features, it never, not even for a second, feels as though the story has been unduly compressed - and at 78 minutes it's a trifle shorter than most.
Also, despite the constant hilarity, it's rather touching. No movie I've seen in the past six months has filled me with such joy. Well, perhaps there have been a few others, but they were all made long ago. Spleen Mar 29, FAQ 1. Details Edit. Release date December 15, United States. United States France.
Official site. Kingdom in the Sun. Walt Disney Feature Animation - S. Box office Edit. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 1 hour 18 minutes. Related news. Sep 20 ScreenRant. The pauper role intended for Owen Wilson was recast with John Goodman. And the story moved away from Twain to an original tale, dropping the music and romance for Disney's easily most comedic animated film since Aladdin. In the age of the Incan Empire, spoiled young emperor Kuzco voiced by David Spade has grown very accustomed to getting exactly what he wants.
Presently, he wants to build Kuzcotopia, a summer home, on the scenic hilltop where simple peasant Pacha Goodman and his family currently live. Meanwhile, Kuzco fires aging advisor Yzma Eartha Kitt , embittering her so that she has her brawny, dim-witted henchman Kronk Patrick Warburton fatally poison him. That's the plan, anyway. In fact, Kronk serves him extract of llama and it turns Kuzco into a llama, who still speaks English and retains his personality.
Pacha winds up with the llama and offers his help, while still encouraging Kuzco to reconsider displacing Pacha, his pregnant wife, and their two young kids. When Yzma learns that Kuzco is still alive, she and Kronk try to track him down and finish the job. They supply just one additional layer of peril, adding to jaguars, cliffs, waterfalls, and crocodiles.
There is clear evidence that The Emperor's New Groove has been reworked. It briefly starts in the middle, then returns to the beginning, always proceeding with voiceover narration some of it wall-breaking by Spade as Kuzco. Ordinarily, you can't completely save a troubled film with editing and other post-production tricks. That's the case with live-action, so you can imagine the challenges of reshaping an animated film, whose medium demands considerable time, effort, and money. Somehow, though, this film pulled off that miraculous feat and stands as Disney's most enjoyable animated film of the early s.
On paper, it sounds routine: a buddy comedy with a transformation, a journey, and just four principal characters. But it really, really works. For one thing, it's genuinely funny, perhaps even more so for adults than the young viewers the G rating attracts.
The film has a Looney Tunes pace and sensibility to it, though they are attached to a worthwhile, investable story as most Disney animated films are.
Entertainment is always the film's top priority, but there's artistry to the cartoony visuals and substance to the plot and arcs. The lead characters are driven by their voice actors' personalities and physicalities, which is unusual for a Disney film. The presentation has a contemporary feel and relies on modern vernacular there are two exclamations of "Booyah", for instance. That should already begin dating this, but it hasn't. Perhaps there are enough timeless elements and features of the ancient setting to protect this from aging.
In reality, there is little to tie this film to ; it doesn't closely resemble the studio's animated films that came before or the less confident ones that followed. It was around this time that John Goodman and Patrick Warburton were starting to do a lot of Disney voiceover work. But thirteen years later, they're still very much in demand by animation and famous enough to snag lead roles in it.
Those who only want fairy tale magic from Disney may not be so thoroughly charmed by this comic, irreverent adventure. Others may be turned off by the large personalities and sly, postmodern vibe that sees everything unfold with a nod and a wink. Nonetheless, this short, sweet reworking of a doomed production embodies the same characteristics of Disney's greatest films. It is a fun and colorful ride that succeeds far better than its facts should make possible.
As for Sting, his contributions to the film were reduced to two original songs, an opening Tom Jones number and the end credits song that is distant in tone but quite agreeable and the subject of the film's only Grammy, Golden Globe, and Academy Award nominations.
Appropriately enough, the unconventional Emperor's begot an unconventional direct-to-video sequel in 's Kronk's New Groove. As the title suggests, a supporting character and ostensible villain has been promoted to hero. That's not a clear recipe for success see Cars 2 , but lovable lug Kronk lends to the premise quite well. Following the original film's structure somewhat, it opens in the middle with Kronk narrating a shot of his dejected self covered in cheese, not drenched by rain.
He explains how he came to be down in the dumps with three distinct episodes. When that design has been used in the past, it has been in Disney taking shorts intended to be episodes of a TV series and patching them into a faux feature film.
While "The Emperor's New School" would debut just a month after this film, that isn't what is done here. The first story finds Kronk reconnecting with Yzma, who has returned to her human form save for a cat tail.
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