A must see... over and over again!

Rating: 10/10 (14 April 2002)

I am rather ashamed to say that, like a lot of excellent movies, I missed this one in theaters. At the time I thought Disney was cheap, childish hogwash, but I now realize otherwise. With Disney's recent stunning works such as Dinosaur, Atlantis, and yes, The Emperor's New Groove, I have a new outlook.
David Spade is the perfect voice for Kuzco. Like Kuzco, the man is pompous and arrogant. In most of his movies he plays a role such as this. Kuzco is no different. The character has a mind of his own, and throughout most of the movie the viewer will be surprised and entertained by his comical witticisms and his I'm-So-Much-Better-Than-You wisecracks.
We meet Kuzco, "King of the World", according to the Theme Song Guy, as he is at the peak of his kingly career. Just how he loses that career, is transmogrified into a llama, and put at the bottom of the social structure, is hilariously magnificent. The conflict is ever so funny, and the climax builds to hysterical, uncontrollable laughing.
The movie also contains several different subplots, such as Kronk and his two little supernatural friends and Pacha and Kuzco. The audience is thrown from conflict to conflict, each containing their own hilarious twists.
Disney has put together yet another superbly animated film, and dubbed it with a name like no other and enlisted a cast so brilliant that it's hard to find any flaws with this movie.