what’s fascinating abt THE EMPEROR’S NEW GROOVE is very little of the comedy that’s native to it, script & design wise. Most of the comedy is actually derived from the stellar voice performances. They inflect & modulate their voices so expressively, even in mundane dialogue.

As compared to something like TOY STORY, where a lot of the jokes are built into the screenplay. Most of the gags in built into NEW GROOVE are visual gags (of which there aren’t a ton), not written/dialogue based jokes.

THE SWEATBOX, Trudie Styler and John-Paul Davidson& #39;s doc on the pained six year development process of THE EMPEROR& #39;S NEW GROOVE (notably between Sting, Roger Alers, and Mark Dindal), is on YouTube (watch it before it disappears!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2CIuq5E1gM">https://www.youtube.com/watch...

NEW GROOVE locates this curious relationship between pleasure and power in the context of imperialist power, that you could basically boil down a lot of imperialist action not on the power itself but the pleasure that exerting that power invites.