I couldn't get the Goofy Movie out of my head while watching this. It seems the general artistic style and even just the mannerisms of the characters resemble that film really well.
Despite the fact that it's nowhere near as grounded as the Goofy Movie or emotionally engaging.
I couldn't get the Goofy Movie out of my head while watching this. It seems the general artistic style and even just the mannerisms of the characters resemble that film really well.
Despite the fact that it's nowhere near as grounded as the Goofy Movie or emotionally engaging. but that works really well here. Really it's just a story about a pompous young aristocrat obtaining some form of humanity and becoming a better person. And it's great
I love how there's no true antagonist in the movie.
Sure you have Yzma but I really don't consider her to be an antagonist. (At least not until the last 15 minuets)
The interactions between her and Crunk are just as amusing to watch as Cuzco and Pacha. If anything I actually think there a bit more entertaining.
In a lot of ways this feels like the greatest example of the transition of Disney films. As they moved on from there Renaissance age in to there more modern interpretation.
I can't even think of how to describe what Disney is now. At least from their animation point of view. They don't do 2D all that much anymore and it just feels like the whole things dormant.
The company's doing better financially than they ever have. But when it comes to memorable Disney films there just isn't anything new.
This feels like it's one of the very last ones that came out that people can remember fondly. Well that in Lilo & Stitch. Now I'm sure there are a ton of modern Disney films that people love just as much as anything else but it's outside of my realm of knowledge so, I have to deal with what I got.
It was doing a heck of a lot better than dinosaur which was one of their early 3D films.
So apparently this was supposed to be an entirely different film that focused a lot more on the actual aspects of the life of an Incan person (possibly still an emperor). And as much as that might have been entertaining to watch, I'm kind of happy they didn't go that direction.
I'm just thinking of movies like Pocahontas or where they tried to tackle non-American (First Nations peoples exempt) or European ethnic group and they do a horrible job. and because of the lacklustre nature of this film and it's more comedic tones they were able to avoid any of those problems.
The issues of misrepresenting a certain cultural group. Even though the Incas are kind of gone at this point. I think there might be a tribe or two of people still kicking around that are more or less ethnically related to the old Empire but I'm not 100% on it*.
However this does give the added benefit of enjoying some of the cultural touchstones and imagery of Inca people without diving into the more questionable materials of them being systematically conquered by a foreign power.
In this way The Emperor's New Groove gets to avoid all of this by just having the story take place well before the days of Spanish Conquest.
Not that it should matter all that much here. The film plays so loosely with its own rules and time line that the whole thing becomes irrelevant.
Rather be the main character Kuzco breaking the fourth wall and literally stopping the film or showing a modern electrical appliance like a floor buffer being used within someone's home.
A part of me still wishes that Yeza had won. She put so much work into running the empire.
*Apparently the word Inca may not be associated with the actual people. Supposedly the word was more utilise describe the ruling class or maybe even the emperor themselves. Whatever the case the point still stands. The culture of these people is more or less gone with only a few holdouts of tradition maintained by people liveing in Peru today.
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