Not Disney's best.

Rating: 5/10 (16 January 2001)

While I certainly enjoyed `Emperor's New Groove' there was something lacking This was not one of Disney's best.
I loved John Goodman, Patrick Warburton and Wendie Malick's character voices  and they fit the animated roles perfectly  but for some reason the two most important voices Kuzco/Kuzco Llama (David Spade) and Yzma (Eartha Kitt) just didn't work In fact, they became irritating long before the hour and 18 minutes of this film was over.
There is a lot to like in this film  though it does seem, at times, to be leftover footage from `The Road to El Dorado.'
The colours are challenging, the character animation is blocky and the sound track is not what I expected; Sting doesn't really get a song until the final credits  long after the audience has left the theater.
I was really hoping for more and I didn't get it.
I like `The Road to El Dorado' and while `Emperor's New Groove' is definitely in that vein, Disney just isn't doing what it does best  entertain.