The Emperor's New Groove | Rotten Tomatoes (2024)

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Is it true that the Emperor's New Groove didn t have a script? ›

According to co writer Dave Reynolds, two weeks after the movie hit theaters, a Disney archivist came to collect the script from him, and he gave them the only thing he had, which was a bunch of legal boxes full of loose pages. The only script that exists for. The Emperor's New Groove is a bunch of Stapled together.

Kuzco: Um, how else can I say it? "You're being let go." "Your department's being downsized." "You're part of an outplacement." "We're going in a different direction." "We're not picking up your option." Take your pick. I got more.

Kronk : It's the peasant who I saw leaving the city who disappeared into the crowd with Kuzco in the back of his cart. He must have taken him back to his village, so if we find the village, we find him, and if we find him, we find Kuzco. Oh, yeah, it's all comin' together.

Eartha Kitt as Yzma, Kuzco's elderly and untrustworthy advisor who seeks Kuzco's throne for herself. Patrick Warburton as Kronk, Yzma's hapless but slow-witted muscular henchman. Wendie Malick as Chicha, Pacha's supportive, pregnant wife.

It is unknown how old Yzma truly is, with everyone joking that she is hundreds of years old. In "The Emperor's New School Spirit", she claimed to be 48-years-old, yet in "The Emperor's New School Musical", she implies to have been around for at least 80 years.

Violence & Scariness

Though most of the violence is comic, slapstick violence, Yzma does try to kill Kuzco more than once, and she's not shy about saying: "I will KILL you!" Perilous falls and dark jungle scenes might be frightening for younger viewers.

Kuzco is, in all seriousness, a pretty solid example of a gay-coded character (remember that gay-coded means “the creators couldn't get it past the censors, but it is implied in the subtext, to the point informed audience members should be able to recognize it with analysis.” the analysis above is very good!)

Yzma : Just think of it as you're being let go, that your life's going in a different direction, that your body's part of a permanent outplacement.

That night, Yzma invites the emperor to dinner and poison his drink. Kronk accidentally pours the extract of a llama into Kuzco's drink instead. Kuzco is turned into a llama and knocked unconscious by Kronk. Yzma then sends her minion to finish the job by throwing him over a waterfall.

Who is Kuzco's girlfriend? ›

In the series, Kuzco develops a love interest named Malina.

Yzma was originally Emperor Kuzco's royal adviser after having raised said emperor through childhood. However, Kuzco did not like the fact that she apparently did most of the governing behind his back, so he decides to fire her.

The song Kronk sang while kidnapping Kuzco in The Emperor's New Groove was completely improvised. This led to Disney making Patrick Warburton sign over the rights to his "composition."

Patrick Warburton improvised when Kronk hummed his own theme song when he was carrying Kuzco (David Spade) in the bag to the waterfall. Disney's legal department had Warburton sign all rights to the humming composition over to them.

The plot of the Disney film The Emperor's New Groove is almost entirely fictitious, but the historical setting was based in the Incan Empire of the 1300s-1500s.

The Emperor's New Groove started life as The Kingdom of the Sun, which was radically different. Unlike most live-action films, which have a (at least mostly) completed script before cameras ever begin to roll, animated films are usually much more in flux.