Accustomed from early childhood to every subject of his empire yielding to his slightest wishes, Cuzco is a young Inca emperor who never felt disappointed or disappointed.
To properly celebrate her eighteenth birthday, she plans to do something big and give herself the biggest gift of all: a summer residence on a nearby luxury hill. And too bad if it means the destruction of the entire village and its inhabitants.
While Cuzco gets his hands on his new villa, Izma, his (not so) faithful and loyal advisor (Es), decides to arrange his assassination to take his place.
The funniest of all Disney?
“For every burst of laughter, there’s a tear”Walt Disney repeated his teams of animators.
The 40th animated classic from Enchanted Studios, directed by Mark Dindall at the dawn of the 2000s, Cuzco, the megalomaniac emperor, seems to have completely forgotten about the tears to concentrate exclusively on the laughs. Because yes, even if all Disney feature films are bound to contain a good dose of humor, this is the one that seems to be the sole purpose of our zygomatic exercises.
Completely different from the works that preceded it and those that followed it, Cuzco is almost an alien in the studio’s history.
A completely different project from the start
However, at first Cuzco didn’t necessarily have to take on this cartoonish look and take on this completely crazy tone. Indeed, in the 90s, after the success of such works as Beauty and the Beast or The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Disney animators planned to present to the public a new epic mural, this time focusing on the Inca civilization.
Directed by the director of The Lion King, the film was nominated kingdom of the sunAnd it must have been inspired by the book The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain. But at the end of a particularly tumultuous production, marked by significant disagreements between the film’s two directors, the Cuzco project took a completely different path.
Even if Disney fans like us don’t care what the famous “Kingdom of the Sun” would have been like, it’s impossible to deny our delight and stifle our laughter at the frosty adventure of the Inca emperor.
What will you like…
- Cronk, Yzma’s cheerful bodyguard who talks to squirrels and cooks like no one else, is without a doubt the funniest character in the film.
- The final scene and Cuzco’s many animal transformations. From a llama it becomes a turtle, a whale or even a parrot.
What could be bothering them…
- The evil Izma, who, in the words of Cuzco, “It’s scary not to do it on purpose”It might impress the youngest.
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