The Emperor's New Groove (DVD)

Disney (The Multi National Whore Bag from Hell as I like to call it) have never been high in my "companies I like" list, which I have made up for the purposes of this review. So far I have Disney in last place, competing heavily with my workplace. The other places are yet to be filled. Suggestions on a postcard please. As much as I dislike them for various reasons (most of them relating to the time I spent working for them) they do occasionally churn out a film under their name that is not what you would expect from a woman hating weirdo with a frozen head and a bad moustache. The Emperors New Groove is certainly one of them. There's a ...  Read the complete review

With such stars as John Goodman and Eartha Kitt providing the voices for two of the main characters, and Sting and David Hartley writing the songs, I expected a little more ooomph to this movie. No worries, though, it's an enjoyable hour and a half for kids, and they seem to like it. Kuzco is an Emperor who thinks only of himself, arrogant in the extreme, and totally uncaring about the lives of his subjects. His adviser, Yzma (with the voice of Eartha Kitt) is a woman with her eyes on the power. Annoyed by her pretentiousness, Kuzco, fires her. Kuzco has ordered the head man from a local village to come to see him. Pacha (voiced by John Goodman) is a ...  Read the complete review

One of Disney's main releases in 2001 was the extremely amusing, and crisply-presented 'The Emperor's New Groove', which showed real departure from Disney's normal animation and story style, dispatching the need for schmaltzy songs, and replacing them with sharply observed comedy. Two different DVD editions have been released in the United States, one with just a single DVD and a fairly basic collection of extras, and one with two DVDs and more features than you can shake a stick at. No prizes for guessing which one I plumped for. THE FILM 'The Emperor's New Groove' sees Kuzco (voiced by David Spade), the despotic ruler ...  Read the complete review

Introduction Over the years Disney have produced some great animated movies ranging from fairy tales to action adventure movies. Their success is unparalleled as many of their movies move from the big screen to Broadway. Children all over the world are familiar with famous Disney characters such as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck etc. However, with the advent of computer graphics, many companies are beginning to compete against Disney. Pixus Dreamworks, perhaps better known for regular movies have begun to produce classic computer animated adventures such as Shrek. Disney therefore are trying to fight back and produce original and exciting ...  Read the complete review

And now for something completely different: a Disney animation extravaganza with just one song and no ballads, with no romantic subplot, with a family that has two parents, with a hero who could not care less about fitting in or finding himself, and with an agenda of non-stop anarchic nuttiness that could pry titters out of a gargoyle. All right, all right, some of you are perfectly satisfied with the musical-romantic mold from which the studio has minted every traditionally animated feature it's made since The Little Mermaid. The curtain rises on a lonely jungle glade, where we find a llama getting drenched by sheeting rain. We quickly learn that ...  Read the complete review