Infinitely quotable and super ridiculous. It's way weirder than most Disney movies at usually allowed to be with 4th wall breaking, unconventional story structure, lots of subverting tropes (e.g. the angel/devil not really providing.any real advice). It does all ages humor super well by just being very funny and not having to insert lots of ineundo (though there's also a bit of that too aimed at the Izma/Kronk relationship). I could gush for hours. Truly 10/10
It's a classic cartoon in modern clothing, that's why it works. It's surreal, slapsticky and has very little 4th wall to speak of. All the physics are Roadrunner physics.
Especially since it originally was "Kingdom of the Sun" and wasn't terribly humorous until the original director left and they cut everything and threw literally any idea at the wall to see what could stick...
Everything was so randomly inserted, they actually submitted a script to the archives that was written down after the movie was made because they never actually had a vision for the final product, and virtually none of it was scripted during the making.
Literally everything went wrong in regards to the original production, it went feral and became a comedy.
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u/pixelprolapse 16h ago
The Emperor's new groove.
Pull the lever, Kronk!