The first time I watched this I didn’t like it at all. I remember thinking after it was over, “What the heck was that”. On my second viewing I began to warm up to it a little more, as it is a really funny movie. They say the third time’s the charm, and when I saw it the third time I began to really like it.

It’s definitely a weird movie. The movie cuts to Kuzco a lot, and breaks the third wall quite a bit with Kuzco referring to the movie as a movie. I have never seen anything like it before, so it took me a while to warm up to it. Now, though, I love it. Ertha Kitt is wonderful as Ezma. She fits the over-the-top Disney villian mold perfectly, and her fate at the end of the movie causes me to chuckle every time I watch it.

And of course, there’s Kronk. I haven’t met a person yet who didn’t enjoy Kronk. He steals virtually every scene that he is in. He’s a dunderhead, but he’s a loveable dunderhead. The bit when he is singing his own theme song leaves me in stitches.

The film also manages to have a solid story despite the goofiness, which is the main reason that I grew attatched to it. It’s nice to see Disney change their formula for their animated classics, and it’s nice to see it work out as well as it did in Emporer’s New Groove.

It was cute! A little heavy handed on the moralising, and I can’t say the main story really held my interest that much, but there’s enough to make you smile: the llama is cute and suits David Spade’s voice; the baddie is a fab-ly OTT Eartha Kitt; and the dumb henchman made me giggle. Favourites, though, were the squirrel and the kitty at the end ;)

As violetsharp said, “Cheese me no likey!”

Really one-dimensional. And I don’t mean the animation, though I guess I wasn’t the biggest fan of that either. I’m not the hugest fan of the big shift to 3D animation that’s gone on in recent years, which (initially, at least) seemed to me to be more about the medium than about the story, but stuff like ‘Finding Nemo’ (which made me grudgingly but finally and firmly agree that they can do some cool stuff with it) has so much more personality than this, whose animation is in a hand-drawn style yet still manages to look bland. Most of this is irrelevant, though: from what I could tell from reading the DVD case, this was all done digitally, therefore should be expected to have been given the same attention as any other of the 3D, digitally animated flicks being put out these days; but it just doesn’t seem like it has been. The backdrop art was great, but the characters in front of it were just… as I say, one-dimensional, in all respects. The humour that’s directed towards adults in many of the new animated films is sadly lacks here, too, which is really unfortunate. No catchy pop song aimed at the charts like a lot of others of its kind have, which again seems to suggest its being a low priority for the company. Generally it feels like this was rushed through at the development level. Certainly watchable, but, yeah: meh.

I’ve seen it twice now, and both times I only thought it was ok. I don’t know why…it has most of the elements I enjoy in other Disney films, but this one just didn’t resonate with me.

Well, obviously it wasn’t bad enough to keep me from watching it a second time…