What makes Kuzco work is that the film does not ask us to like him immediately. He fires his entire staff for breathing wrong. He mocks his advisor Yzma to her face. He plans to destroy a family’s home for a summer pool. The film’s inciting incident—Yzma accidentally turning him into a llama rather than killing him—is presented as cosmic karma. The beauty of the script is that Kuzco’s redemption is slow and earned. He doesn’t become a completely different person; he simply learns that other people exist. The final scene, where Kuzco abandons Kuzcotopia to build a shared house with Pacha and his family, is powerful precisely because we remember how awful he was in the opening scene.
In the end, Las Locuras del Emperador is a celebration of the absurd. It has no desire to make you cry or inspire you to greatness. It wants to make you laugh so hard that you spit out your drink (preferably one of Kronk’s spinach puffs). And two decades later, it continues to do exactly that. Las Locuras Del Emperador
La historia nos presenta a Kuzco, un joven emperador inca egoísta, vanidoso y acostumbrado a que el mundo gire a su alrededor. Kuzco no es el típico héroe Disney; de hecho, es bastante antipático. Su plan actual es demoler una aldea entera para construir su regalo de cumpleaños: una piscina personal llamada "Kuzcotopia". What makes Kuzco work is that the film
What makes Kuzco work is that the film does not ask us to like him immediately. He fires his entire staff for breathing wrong. He mocks his advisor Yzma to her face. He plans to destroy a family’s home for a summer pool. The film’s inciting incident—Yzma accidentally turning him into a llama rather than killing him—is presented as cosmic karma. The beauty of the script is that Kuzco’s redemption is slow and earned. He doesn’t become a completely different person; he simply learns that other people exist. The final scene, where Kuzco abandons Kuzcotopia to build a shared house with Pacha and his family, is powerful precisely because we remember how awful he was in the opening scene.
In the end, Las Locuras del Emperador is a celebration of the absurd. It has no desire to make you cry or inspire you to greatness. It wants to make you laugh so hard that you spit out your drink (preferably one of Kronk’s spinach puffs). And two decades later, it continues to do exactly that.
La historia nos presenta a Kuzco, un joven emperador inca egoísta, vanidoso y acostumbrado a que el mundo gire a su alrededor. Kuzco no es el típico héroe Disney; de hecho, es bastante antipático. Su plan actual es demoler una aldea entera para construir su regalo de cumpleaños: una piscina personal llamada "Kuzcotopia".