The Emperor's New Groove (franchise)

The Emperor's New Groove is a Disney franchise that commenced in 2000 after the first film was released in theatres.

Films

The Emperor's New Groove is a 2000 American animated buddy comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures on December 15, 2000. It is the 40th animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series.

Kronk's New Groove, also known as The Emperor's New Groove 2: Kronk's New Groove, is a 2005 direct-to-video animated musical comedy film released by The Walt Disney Company on December 13, 2005. The film is the sequel and spin-off to the 2000 animated film The Emperor's New Groove.

Documentary Films

The Sweatbox is a documentary designed to show behind the scenes footage of Kingdom of the Sun. In reality, it illustrated the slow and painful transformation from KoS to the Emperor's New Groove, including the director, Sting (whose wife created the documentary), artists, and voice cast being dismayed by the new direction. Its major theme is creative-executive conflicts.

Unproduced Films

Kingdom of the Sun was the original draft of the film that went through massive changes and eventually became TENG. It is considered a different movie despite being vaguely cosmetically reminiscent of the finished film. It was described as being an epic film on par with The Lion King as opposed to the buddy comedy it was morphed into.

TV series

The Emperor's New School is an American animated television series that aired on Disney Channel. The show is based on the characters from The Emperor's New Groove and its direct-to-video sequel Kronk's New Groove. It aired from 2006-2008.

Video games

The Emperor's New Groove is a video game based upon the 2000 film of the same name, developed by Argonaut Games for the PlayStation and Microsoft Windows, and by Sandbox Studios for the Game Boy Color.

The Emperor's New Groove Groove Center is a part of the Disney's Activity Center series of game, which allows the player to do activities that tie in to the film upon what it is based.

Music

The Emperor's New Groove is the soundtrack to the film, which included many songs that were originally written for Kingdom of the Sun and then discarded.

My Funny Friend and Me is a song by English musician Sting. It was written by Sting and David Hartley, and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song at the 73rd Academy Awards in 2001. Snuff out the Light was the deleted villain song from Kingdom of the Sun, to be sung by Yzma (played by Eartha Kitt). It demonstrated that she thought light made people age, so if she could force the world into total darkness she could be beautiful and young forever.

Common elements

Cast and characters

Characters Films TV Show
The Emperor's New Groove
(2000)
Kronk's New Groove
(2005)
The Emperor's New School
(2006-2008)
Emperor Kuzko David Spade JP Manoux
Pacha John Goodman Fred Tatasciore (season 1 only)
John Goodman (season 2 only)
Yyzma Eartha Kitt
Kronk Pepikrankenitz Patrick Warburton
Chica Wendie Malick
Chaca Kellyann Kelso Jessie Flower
Tipo Eli Russell Linnetz Shane Baumel
Bucky Bob Bergen
Rudy John Fiedler (unknown voice actor)
Papi   John Mahoney Jeff Bennett
Mrs. Birdwell   Tracy Ullman  
Malina   Jessica DiCicco

Reception

Critical reaction

Title Rotten Tomatoes Metacritic
The Emperor's New Groove 85%[1] 70%[2]
Kronk's New Groove 0%[3]  

References

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