The Emperor's New Groove is a 2000 American animated buddy comedy film created by Walt Disney Feature Animation. It is the 40th film in Disney's animated features canon. It was directed by Mark Dindal, produced by Randy Fullmer, written by David Reynolds, and stars David Spade, John Goodman, Eartha Kitt, Patrick Warburton and Wendie Malick.
The film was altered significantly over its six years of development and production. It began as a musical epic titled Kingdom of the Sun, to have been directed by Dindal and Roger Allers (co-director of The Lion King), and was changed by Disney executives into a light-hearted buddy comedy. The documentary The Sweatbox details the production troubles that the film endured.
The film received generally positive reviews and is considered to be one of the best films of Disney's post-Renaissance era. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "My Funny Friend and Me" performed by Sting, but lost to "Things Have Changed" by Bob Dylan from Wonder Boys. A direct-to-video sequel, Kronk's New Groove, was released in 2005, followed by an animated television series, The Emperor's New School in 2006.
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Kuzco | David Spade | Jesús Barrero | Fujiwara Tatsuya | Selton Mello | Marc-André Coallier | Michael "Bully" Herbig | Didier Gustin | Luca Bizzarri | Maciej Stuhr | Roeland Fernhout | Fekete Zoltán | Figge Norling | Jarkko Tamminen | Jon Øigarden | Mads Vangsø | Pantelís Kanarákis | Andriy Fedinchyk | Daniel Tůma | Aleksandŭr Voronov | Sturla Sighvatsson | Henrich Platek | Radu Grigore | Aleksey Fedotov | Óscar Muñoz | Ángel Garó | Peter Michael | Ido Mosseri |
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Pacha | John Goodman | Mario Sauret | Naomi Kusumi | Humberto Martins | Yves Corbeil | Reinhard Brock | Jacques Frantz | Adalberto Maria Merli | Paweł Sanakiewicz | Jack Wouterse | Konrád Antal | Allan Svensson | Eero Saarinen | Ivar Nørve | Peter Aude | Tásos Kostís | Oleksandr Ihnatusha | Jiří Hromada | Ivan Petrushinov | Ólafur Darri Ólafsson | Peter Bzdúch | Claudiu Stănescu | Sergey Parshin | Pepe Mediavilla | Fernando Luis | Nathan Datner | |
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Yzma | Eartha Kitt | Mayra Rojas | Hisako Kyōda | Marieta Severo | Sophie Faucher | Elke Sommer | Élisabeth Wiener | Anna Marchesini | Ewa Kolasińska | Simone Kleinsma | Szabó Éva | Siw Malmkvist | Seela Sella | Gisken Armand | Lisbet Dahl | Chrisoúla Diaváti | Larysa Rusnak | Eva Holubová | Iva Apostolova | Lísa Pálsdóttir | Zdena Grúberová | Anca Oprișan | Yelena Komissarenko | Rosario Cavallé | Natália Luiza | Yael Amit | |
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Kronk | Patrick Warburton | Rubén Cerda | Kenyû Horiuchi | Guilherme Briggs | Benoît Rousseau | Thomas "Tommy"Amper | Emmanuel Curtil | Paolo Kessisoglu | Jacek Mikołajczak | Erik van Muiswinkel | Szabó SiposBarnabás | Fredrik Hiller | Santeri Kinnunen | Kristopher Schau | Jørgen Brorsen | Yiánnis Stefópoulos | Oleksiy Bohdanovych | Martin Zahálka | Marian Marinov | Magnús Jónsson | Ján Kroner | Ioan AndreiIonescu | Georgiy Traugot | Jordi Boixaderas | David GarcíaVázquez | João CraveiroReis | Moshe Beker |
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Rudy | John Fiedler | Esteban Siller | Miguel Rosenberg | Yves Massicotte | Georges Aubert | Sándor Makay | Aarre Karén | Carlos Freixo | |||||||||||||||||||
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Chica | Wendie Malick | Rebeca Patiño | Marietta Meade | Frédérique Tirmont | Annet Malherbe | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Chaca | Kellyann Kelso | Anaís Portillo | Lara Wurmer | Camille Donda | Kirsten Fennis | Paula Ribó | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Tipo | Eli Russell Linnetz | Tim Schwarzmaier | Matthias Mella | Merel Burmeister | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Fly | Bob Bergen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bucky | Bob Bergen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Waitress | Patti Detusch | Magda Giner | Sayuri Sadaoka | Mônica Rossi | Mireille Thibault | Monika John | Laurence Badie | Angiolina Quinterno | Mirosława Krajewska | Heddy Lester | Tábori Nóra | Gunvor Pontén | MaijaLiisa Peuhu | Grethe Kausland | Ulla Jessen | Vílma Tsakíri | Iryna Melnyk | Jelena Juklová | Asya Bratanova | Ragnheiður Steindórsdóttir | Nina Potapovskaya | Gloria Roig | Cláudia Cadima | Lillian Barreto | |||
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Official | Joe Whyte | Herman López | Isaac Schneider | Efron Etkin | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Theme Song Guy | Tom Jones | Oscar D'León | Hideki Saijō | Ed Motta | René Simard | Nino de Angelo | Olivier Constantin | Ernesto Brancucci | Krzysztof Krawczyk | Paskal Jakobsen | Szolnoki Péter | Tommy Nilsson | Veeti Kallio | Tor Endresen | Stig Rossen | Álex Panayí | Volodymyr Trach | Karel Černoch | Atanas Penev | Eiríkur Hauksson | Ľudovít Nosko | Dan Helciug | Yuriy Okhochinskiy | Xavier Carbó | Pedro Ruy-Blas | Paulo Ramos | Gabi Shoshan |
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Chef | Steve Susskind | Gerardo Reyero | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bull | Rodger Bumpass | Patrick Guillemin | Jarmo Koski | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Guard 1 | Jess Harnell | Gerardo Reyero | Patrick Guillemin | Jarmo Koski | |||||||||||||||||||||||