The Emperor's New Groove (2001)

The Emperor's New Groove is a family comedy made in 2000. It was directed by Mark Dindal and it made 170 million dollars at the box office. It was nominated for Best Motion Picture and won the Critics Choice Award.

The cast includes Patrick Warburton as the voice for Kronk and John Goodman as Pacha.

The Emperor is a selfish and demanding young guy called Kuzco. As he gets turned into a lowly Llama, he learns that it is better to be generous and thoughtful. On the way he makes some kindhearted, slightly unusual friends and has fun adventures.

There are a lot of visual jokes in this film. The Emperor is uncomfortably mean but this is needed for the story. However there was not enough content in this movie to give enough of the Inca setting of the story in my opinion (it needed more gold!!!)

Still, the fact that it was set in the Inca times added a great atmosphere to the movie.

The style of animation is colourful which makes it exciting and appealing.

The visual jokes run all the way through the film and there is never a dull moment.

I enjoyed the film mainly because of the surprisingly lovable and dopey character Kronk, which adds a lot to the hilarity of the film.

I’d recommend the film to people 7 years and upwards who love animation and comedy and something a bit different.