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The King and I (1999)
A shameless butchering of a great classic!
Warner Brothers animated version of `The King and I' is nothing more than a shameless butchering of Rogers and Hammerstine's musical masterpiece. The producers of this travesty have seen fit to bring this classic story down to a child's level with very little of the original work making it to the screen. Much of the original has been replaced with a senseless story of a wizard and his fat henchman trying to kill the King so they can rule Siam. All sorts of `cute' characters have also been added here and we have plenty of scenes were monkeys and baby elephants hurl mangoes at the villains. The movie has a number of astonishingly bad moments such as the scenes where the King flies over the kingdom in a balloon that is powered by a panther peddling a bicycle attached to a propeller. Even worse is Anna singing `Whistle a Happy Tune' while being attacked by a sea monster! With each scene I kept sinking deeper into my seat murmuring, `Tell me this isn't happening!' One could just hear Richard and Oscar turning over in their graves!
Now some may simply say, `Hey! This is a kid's movie! So what!' To such a mentality I ask why not raise the children to the level of the art instead of lowering the art to the level of kids? With this animated film, Warner Brothers have vandalized a great musical for the sake of making a quick buck from parents who care nothing about the quality of entertainment they take their kids to see.
The King and I (1999)
A shameless butchering of a great classic!
Warner Brothers animated version of `The King and I' is nothing more than a shameless butchering of Rogers and Hammerstine's musical masterpiece. The producers of this travesty have seen fit to bring this classic story down to a child's level with very little of the original work making it to the screen. Much of the original has been replaced with a senseless story of a wizard and his fat henchman trying to kill the King so they can rule Siam. All sorts of `cute' characters have also been added here and we have plenty of scenes were monkeys and baby elephants hurl mangoes at the villains. The movie has a number of astonishingly bad moments such as the scenes where the King flies over the kingdom in a balloon that is powered by a panther peddling a bicycle attached to a propeller. Even worse is Anna singing `Whistle a Happy Tune' while being attacked by a sea monster! With each scene I kept sinking deeper into my seat murmuring, `Tell me this isn't happening!' One could just hear Richard and Oscar turning over in their graves!
Now some may simply say, `Hey! This is a kid's movie! So what!' To such a mentality I ask why not raise the children to the level of the art instead of lowering the art to the level of kids? With this animated film, Warner Brothers have vandalized a great musical for the sake of making a quick buck from parents who care nothing about the quality of entertainment they take their kids to see.