Academy Awards, USA 2001
| Nominated Oscar | Best Music, Original Song Sting (composer/lyricist) Dave Hartley (composer)
For the song "My Funny Friend and Me".
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Buena Vista Distribution
Directed by Mark Dindal
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Disney)
A spoiled teenage Incan king is turned into a llama by a recently fired assistant. He ends up at the home of a peasant that he had planned to demolish in order to build his own personal vacation getaway. The king promises to save his neighborhood if the peasant takes him back to the palace, and they set out together for the long trek. They overcome many obstacles, eventually ending up at a diner where they meet the assistant that tried to poison him and fight to turn him back into a human. David Spade as the Incan king Kuzco is almost as irritating as his character. The irreverent asides and breaking of the fourth wall to talk directly to the audience is cumbersome and distracting. John Goodman as the good-natured peasant is a little more tolerable. Still, this is a lesser Disney work which is already beginning to age.
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