the audience applauded

An Exercise In Nonsense

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

This movie is great. It has very good music, lovely ambiance, likable characters and cute story. I read a dumb comment where a Thai was complaining about the magic and crap because it's "not real". This is not a documentary...It's a movie for kids and it's meant to entertain. This movie is great. It has very good music, lovely ambiance, likable characters and cute story. I read a dumb comment where a Thai was complaining about the magic and crap because it's "not real". This is not a documentary...It's a movie for kids and it's meant to entertain. It has very good music, lovely ambiance, likable characters and cute story. I read a dumb comment where a Thai was complaining about the magic and crap because it's "not real". This is not a documentary...It's a movie for kids and it's meant to entertain.

This story is rather loosely based off of the book 'The King and I.' A woman comes to Siam to teach the kings children while someone who doesn't like the king tries to overthrow him. It's practically the normal idea of a kingdom trying to be overpowered and a king overthrown. There are some things though that just feels really stupid. For example, songs that are sung at the wrong times and the stupid evil sidekick who loses teeth. I never really liked the story of 'the king and I' because it was set with a lot of drama with a clash of cultures. I know it happens a lot and happened back then but they made it into a musical which is another reason I didn't like it. Now it being a cartoon helped me watch it for the rather fun comic affects.The animation is rather interesting, very similar to Asian style but with American cartoon flare. Sadly, the animation although fluid is a bit overboard on movement. Characters seem to move unnaturally most of the time, with flailing about and sometimes acting rather strangely for a human. It's funny to see the stupid sidekick with the belly that would move about but the rest of them were not supposed to be funny so I don't understand why everyone else had that same sort of style too. It just made the show feel awkward in that.The music is a little old fashioned and based on the live action movie with the same name. We have very stereotypical characters from way back when the book was made. It's not just the people who are Asian, it also goes for the old English characters. Just once I would like to see this done for our time frame where woman didn't wear hoop skirts and people were a little more educational (Just to let you know, I know they are smart but in a different manner. I am not racist.). The voices were alright though, fitting the characters well.Overall, I just didn't care for this movie much. While it is a fun show, it's not for everyone and felt bland to me.

First off I want to say two things about this topic. One, I saw this in the cinemas with my family when I was little and I enjoyed it a lot. And secondly when I'm doing this review, I am not going to compare this film to the 1956 film because i have not seen that version.So after a long time, I decided, why not, let's give the king and I (1999) a try. In the first 20 minutes, I instantly turned off the film, finding it funny as hell but really thinking what the hell at the same time. The next day, I watched the other half which bored me to death. After seeing the whole film being much older now, I think of it in a totally different way. As a kid, I liked it. But now more grown up, I think this film was animated garbage and it was awful. Very rotten as well. It was so messy. And here's why: First, I think the story is far too simple and I wish they could have gone into great detail throughout the film. I also think that most of the characters are unbelievably stupid, annoying, laughable and dull in every scene. There definitely wasn't much going on with these characters that I just couldn't care about them after wards. The King is like an anti-action would be hero who continually blab-bas on repeating some of the same crap: "WHAT, WHAT, WHAT!". Seriously, and even the main villain was cheap. He was just there sneaking and running around trying to scheme his little plan. His objective was stupid as hell. There were a lot of stupid moments as well.Some of these stupid moments consist throughout but I think the most silliest was when this dragon tries to attack this woman, her boy, a monkey and a crew on their boat. The crew and all have no idea what to do until the mother and her boy start whistling. The dragon then disappears into smoke. Really dumb and quite laughable. I know this is a kid's cartoon but come on, there could have been a better way to kill that thing.The sing alongs also don't save it and the music throughout could have been so much more. It was merely the only decent part of the film but because of messed up characters, story, bad moments and plot gaps, the music is poorly contrasted with random scenes and it becomes a shamble which doesn't even get the film to it's full peak. And the thing which really bugged me throughout was the animation and change of scenes.For example in one scene, we see the main villain and this fat guy who is his assist are seen talking near a bridge. At first we see the main villain with his normal clothing. That being a red shirt and some shorts. And then quickly in the next shot, he is seen wearing his suit and then it cuts to another shot where a glass eye piece full off of his head and then another quick shot flies in quickly and we see that he hasn't even put it on. It's just there on him. There are many other poor animation tactics which go on about throughout this film, but I'm not going to go into it.The only two things I thought were done OK is these two moments with the main villain and the king. If you've seen this garbage where the villain is whipped on the bum by the panther at the end of the king and his discussion and the part with the villain telling the king about the so called teacher leading the kids outside the palace. They were the only parts in the entire film I thought that weren't done badly. Although that is my only positive notion for it, doesn't change my mind that I didn't like this film at all.I just don't believe it myself that I watched this in the cinemas when it came out, and I liked it. Now going back to it just recently, I suddenly think it's one of the worst films I have seen in quite some time. The other thing which was weird throughout was that I found this film hilariously dumb and stupid. I mean I just made fun of this film after the first ten minutes. And then the middle sunk lower and then the ending was predictable and went absolutely nowhere. I mean throughout nothing exciting happened either. It was just a very boring film.It's pure animated garbage which should be avoided.1.5/10

I saw this movie on the television today. All I have to say is I'm glad computer generated movies are taking over. Now there will be less movies like this.The animation was choppy and off, the voices were horrid, the dialog was so standard it killed me (try counting how many times that kid said "father" in a dramatic voice), and the "humor" was too lame even for kids.I think we should all go Fahrenheight 451 on this movie and burn them all so this story will never be viewed in its butchered form.Please do not ever see this movie, not even for free.