Disney's much needed New Groove!

Rating: 10/10 (15 January 2001)

"New Groove" was the best Disney movie I've seen since the Lion King, yet lacked everything that The Lion King had! The Lion King had all the makings of the stereotypical Disney Animated feature, music, characters bursting into song every 10 minutes, lessons to be learned, insanely evil villains who inevitably are killed at the end by the tragic hero, Love interests, wacky side kicks to add in a little humour along with the drama, and shiney eye candy animation. Yet, along with all this, Lion King had the love put into it that made it the wonderful movie that it was. All the Disneys after it had all the components but the Love!
Not that "New Groove" didn't have some of the qualities aforementioned, it had music (But not sung by the characters), it had a lesson to be learned, and it had eye candy animation (But who says that's a bad thing if the heart is in the right place?)... everything else had a groove of it's own. Disney certainly got a New Groove going when they came up with this movie! It's unlike any other Disney I've seen. It was a laugh a minute for me. I must have missed every other joke in it because I was laughing so hard at the joke before it! David Spade was absolutely hilarious!
Though it's plot was thin and predictable, the movie still possessed the charm and lovable characters that we've not seen in a long time. It rings of The Great Mouse Detective, with it's charming and lovable characters and alot of slap stick comedy to leave you laughing, not sobbing (Lion King, remeber Mufasa's death?)!
I am very surprised to see how many people didn't like this movie as much as I did. I feel that Disney's New Groove is promising for future animated features, and I hope to see more movies like this in the future.
Oh, and if you're wondering WHY it was called "New Groove" and there's not much singing in it... well, it's because the Emperor's Old Groove was that of his selfish and spoiled self, and after he met Pacha... well, it changed it Groove. (There's also that whole... Llama thing.)