![]() ![]() ![]() This is the first direct-to-video Disney sequel to keep the original movie cast, and that’s great, but I’m not sure we needed to bring David Spade back as Kuzco just to have him shame Yzma for having unevenly shaven armpits. Would that they’d done the same with their shaming of Yzma (Eartha Kitt). But it’s a way to take a tired motivation and go somewhere with it. I’m not, you understand, saying this is the best possible presentation of that conflict this is still direct-to-video Disney stuff, here, though it’s top-tier direct-to-video Disney. He is, on the other hand, inherently moral enough so that he’d rather be rejected by his father than do the wrong thing, and that conflict is interesting. Kronk does some bad things because he’s going to get the things that will make his father think he’s not a failure. Because the story is of course driven by Kronk’s fear of his father’s rejection. Honestly, you know, this movie shows how Daddy Issues can turn into a workable story. So he is a failure, and his father will reject him, and he will deserve it. He doesn’t have a wife and kids because of. He doesn’t have a house on the hill because of. His father had always told him that he would be a failure until he had a wife and children and a house on a hill, and Kronk has internalized this. In this movie, he is happily working at Mudka’s Meat Hut until he gets a Lllamagram that his father (John Mahoney) is coming for a visit. Kronk, as voiced by Patrick Warburton, had been the stand-out character of 2000’s The Emperor’s New Groove. And, yes, make cheap cash-grab direct-to-video movies like this one, because they probably don’t cost all that much and small children tend toward completionism. And so they do things like buy other studios and keep raising park prices and so forth. But I mean that they’re not happy with having their profits merely keep up with inflation and want them to increase exponentially, going up and up and up and up. I wonder sometimes if the biggest problem with Disney is that they want the amount of money they make to keep increasing.
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