An overlooked gem, dissed by theater audiences and generally an underperformer for the house that Walt built.
True, there was a long and troubled production (it started out as an Incan Prince and the Pauper on the grand scale of The Lion King) and was nearly shut down numerous times. True, it is not actually a musical (though the Tom Jones theme song is a thing rolicking awesomeness). True, there's no romance; just a main character happily married (to what may be the first ever pregnant character in a Disney flick).
The Disney film it most closely resembles in tone is Alladin, or maybe Hercules. But mostly it plays like an extended Warner Brothers cartoon. The gags are fast, furious, and delightfully randomly anarchic. The final fifteen minutes of this movie made me laugh as hard and continuously as Young Frankenstein.
David Spade and John Goodman make a great team, but Eartha Kitt and Patrick Warburton run off with giant hunks of the film.
Striking images, self-skewering antics, hilarious performances, and more straight-on fun than the average Disney flick, this is a movie that is oft-avoided that should be seen by way more folks.
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I agree, I loved it!
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