Very Unoriginal

Rating: 3/10 (27 June 2002)

My wife and I recently rented this movie on DVD and it was our first viewing. Let me say that I went into this with low expectations, which set me up to be pleasantly surprised.
But that didn't happen. This movie is very unoriginal. The jokes are almost entirely tired, worn out ones that we've all heard many times before. How many times do they (hollywood) expect us to laugh at passing gas? That joke got tired when I was like 16.
The characters are equally unoriginal. When the donkey opened his mouth, I thought, "Eddie Murphy as the 'colorful' little sidekick?" Mulan pretty much used up the quota on that one. At least in Mulan he got to say some funny lines.
At times, I felt like I wasn't watching a movie. It's almost like a set of animated, disconnected music videos. Anyway, there's very little wit on display and the characters are not at all endearing to the audience. You can tell that the writers are trying too hard. They just don't have it.