| Don't let the G rating scare you
off, thinking it's a kiddie movie. I about laughed
my ass off for the entire ... albeit short ...
78 minutes of this movie!
I never saw this movie in the theaters... though
I wanted to. I ended up watching half of it over
at Joe's place on DVD, and afterwards promptly
went out and bought my own copy. I thought the
funniest parts were already over... I was wrong.
I haven't laughed so hard in a LONG time...
The story is fairly simple... Emperor Kuzco (David
Spade) is about to have his 18th birthday, and
he summons the village chief Pacha (John Goodman)
to his palace to help him fix his 'problem'. Before
Pacha arrives, we're introduced to Yzma (Eartha
Kitt) and Kronk (Patrick Warburton), Yzma's sidekick.
Yzma is the advisor to the emporer, however, on
this day, Kuzco decides it's time to lay her off.
Naturally she is very upset about this, and devises
a plan to kill Kuzco, and take over the empire.
Things get crazy though, when she mistakes a
vile of Extract of Llama for a vile of Poison...
thus instead of killing Kuzco, he's turned into
a Llama. Kronk is sent to dispose of him once
and for all... and in one of the funniest scenes,
Kronk is sneaking through the streets, humming
his own theme song... that's classic!
Of course, Kronk doesn't dispose of Kuzco, he
ends up losing Kuzco in the crowded palace marketplace...
"Oh... I hope this doesn't come back to haunt
me..." Hahaha!
Pacha returns home, unknowingly carrying Kuzco
in a sack on the back of his cart. When he does
eventually find out, thus begins the trek back
to the palace to restore Kuzco to his human self.
But along the way, they're faced with many obstacles...
squirrels... panthers, scorpions and alligators!
Oh my!
Yzma eventually learns of Kuzco's status of "Not
quite dead", and her and Kronk begin the
hunt to find Kuzco. Finally ending in a race to
the palace to find the potion in the "Secret
Lab" that will change Kuzco back to his former
self.
This movie truly is hilarious. There were parts
where I literally laughed out loud... parts where
I had to pause it so I could finish laughing and
not miss anything else. This is probably one of
the funniest movies I've seen, in a LONG time.
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