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Summary: A really funny movie!
Review: I love this movie because you can watch it with the whole family and everyone will love it. It's good for kids, but there are many jokes that will be even funnier to adults. It's not at all the standard Disney movie, it's a little more low budget but in return, they have an ALL-STAR cast of voices (I think John Goodman is one of the best new Disney VA's in recent years and I love his work so far, esp in this and Monsters, Inc.) and make up for it in the amount of laughs in this movie. There are so many quotable lines. Perfect movie for a rainy afternoon.
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Summary: If you're debating the purchase, I urge you to go for it!
Review: You will not regret it! If I had known how entertaining and clever this movie was, I would have taken my son to see it when it was in the theater. I am pretty tired of the "Disney Formula" and this animated movie has revitalized my expectations for the company. The voices are a riot from the fabulous Eartha Kitt as a hilarious villaness to her brawny sidekick Kronk (Patrtick "Putty" Warburton) to the condescending but humorous Spade. Disney casts aside sappy sentimentality in this flick to emphasize humor and wit. A great example is the portrayal of Pacha's pregnant wife at home alone with two young children who cleverly uses her kids to thwart the antagonists. Surprising and extremely funny. As trite as it may sound, this film "works on many levels" providing clever humor for adults with great visuals and jokes for kids. And the theme of kindness and selflessness is done with uncharacterisitcally subtleness without losing the message. For the price of rentals these days, the cost of owning the movie is not that much more, especially given the number of times we view it. I am extremely pleased with my purchase and glad I looked past a premise that seemed absurd to enjoy one of the most creative films to come from Disney in a long time.
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Summary: DON'T BE STUPID!!!!
Review: Don't be stupid and waste your time reading this and just buy this movie. by far my favorite and funniest movie made by disney to date. I've seen it many times and it just keeps getting better. Whoever gave this movie a 3-star review was just using big words and trying to sound smart, so don't listen. This movie isn't a "oh one line was funny" movie, it's a "My god I can't remember all the times I was laughing movie". I won't explain the plot because you should have already bought it by now and you'll be seeing it soon. what makes this so great is the fact that all the scenes are funny and get funnier as the movie goes on (last scene will stick in your head for a long time). If none of this has made since to you, it's because it's hard the write well when you're still laughing...
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Summary: Good but not Classic
Review: I am puzzled by the many 5 star glowing reviews this movie received here at amazon. 257 reviews at Yahoo give it a B+ which feels about right. Its good, but great?? There is a reason this movie wasn't all that successful at the box office. Its funny at points, and teaches a good lesson for kids. But its not as funny as classics like Aladin, Toy Story (either) or Monsters Inc to name a few. And it has only one song, which is fairly forgettable although well done. Nor does it have gorgeous visuals like the Lion King. And the movie starts a bit slow -- it doesn't really start to shine until the Emperor gets turned into a Lama, which is almost a 1/2 hour in (may be off by a bit). While the movie has some charm, it doesn't excell in this area the way say, Finding Nemo or Monsters Inc. does. None of which takes away from the fact that this is a feel good flick worth a watch with kids of any age. No one's parents die and there are no innappropriate aspects for young kids. This *is* a movie adults can enjoy, but I don't have any real desire to watch it again. Much of the humour is physical humour. More polished then the physical humour in the cartoons we grew up with, but it didn't make me laugh. At the same time, the movie did have a certain charm, and I wouldn't be unhappy if my daughter wants to put it on. I can easily see kids enjoying the movie much more then I did. My daughter didn't appeciate it, but she is only 2 and is very picky. Bottom line: rent or tape before buying.
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Summary: Side-splittingly funny!
Review: The Emporer's New Groove is a very funny movie with few weak spots. All of the main charactors (voiced by David Spade, John Goodman, Eartha Kitt, and Patrick Warburton) are completely outrageous. Probably the funniest charactor in the movie is Kronk, who is voiced by Warburton. He is the charactor in which the film's funniest gags are based opon. This is not a traditional Disney movie. It has no mushy love songs, no real moral message, and certainly no breathtaking animation. It started out like that, but the idea was shelved and this hilarious movie was put together by Disney. This is one of those movies that you watch after you just flunked a math test and need a good laugh. David Spade does the voice of Cuzco perfectly-with just the right tone of sassiness and arrogence. The only weak spot of this movie is the fact that, towards the end of the movie, it seemed like the animators got tired or clumsy or something and the film looked kind of slapped together. Some sequences look like they came out out of a Looney Toons cartoon. But even though the animation slacks off, the laughs keep on coming until the very last scene.
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Summary: Light, silly, very funny
Review: This film is much lighter than most Disney films. Yes, they're fun too, but most feel some obligation to act as though the story could be happening. The Emperor's New Groove looks into the camera, winks at the audience, and plays by other rules. I'm not a big David Spade fan, but he is perfect as Cuzco. John Goodman is both funny and endearing as Pacha. Pacha's family is hilarious, and the scenes with his kid's show how funny a movie can be when it abandons reality and only lives by cartoon rules (i.e. no rules). Eezma and Kronk are also very good. Like all the best cartoons there is plenty of humor here for the adults, and my kids love the film as well. Great movie, great DVD. You can enjoy the 'normal' version, but the Ultimate Edition adds a good deal more, include a short quiz, jokes you won't see in the film itself, and lots of background. It's good to know that Sting chose not to do the theme song because he felt he was too old, at fifty, and so they got...Tom Jones!
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Summary: A quality movie with HILARIOUS scenes
Review: I love watching this movie for the wit and humor. Kronk is just the most valuable sidekick. It is a cut above other Disney movies because it lacks a pyscho villian, death, and other thematic elements. This is just a funny film for the entire family!
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Summary: One of the funniest Disney films ever.
Review: It may not be worthy of Masterpiece status, but The Emporer's New Groove will always be remembered as the funny Disney film. It is very alike Saturday Night Live in the way the humor plays out. The voices are great, as well as the animation. See it. I highly reccomend it.
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Summary: Hilarious addition to Disney's All-Star Lineup
Review: When I was a kid, Disney's movies were enjoyable for me to watch, but not really funny (the "Little Mermaid" is a good case in point-I love the movie, but there was little ha-ha humor in there.) But, over the years Disney has slowly gotten funnier; they had already perfected the dramatic moments. Now, you have to look at each movie individually. "Aladdin" was meant to be mostly funny, which is why they contracted Robin Williams to play a major part. Likewise, "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" was meant to send you into giggles at random moments, and it is my opinion that the gargoyles and Phoebus pulled that off perfectly. But "Pocahontas" and "The Lion King" were mainly dark, introspective-sort of pieces. Some humor, but when you have star-crossed lovers in the midst of a war and a sympathetic character death, the humor is lost. However, the "Emperor's New Groove" is a laugh riot. I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard at a Disney movie. Even though he spends most of the film as an absolute jerk and a spoiled brat, Kuzco is absolutely tongue-in-cheek hilarious. And the witch and her henchman had me holding my sides several times. Even Pacha's family was funny! I especially love his wife-she was really on top of things, even though she was pregnant and trying to control two small children and help outwit the bad guys. The animation is superb! The colors are bright and clear, and the movements are very fluid. I had to suspend belief with the llama's movements, but he was a talking llama, so who am I to say that he can't sit like that or walk on two legs. The voices were entirely appropriate to the character; Disney did a fantastic casting job. John Goodman did an excellent job with the calm, down-to-earth llama herder Pacha, David Spade is probably the only one who could have pulled off Emperor Kuzco, and Earth Kitt was the perfect choice for the put-upon, cynical advisor Yzma. All in all, this movie is another in a very long line of Disney Greats.
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Summary: Demon Llama!!!
Review: On of the best Disney movies EVER!! I have watched it over and over, and I'm still not tired of it. I loved Lion King and Alladin and some of the other Disney movies, but I couldn't watch them over and over again like I can this one. Never dissapointed when my daughter pulls this one off the shelf to watch!
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