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Would Kingdom of the Sun have been quite as good, perhaps even better, than the movie it became? The answer remains a mystery, but Disney's most troubled production history since The Black Cauldron led to something unlike anything they've done before - a film that's only a musical when it starts and ends, and the rest is loonier than every single Silly Symphony and whatnot.
Pacha is not a youngster but a careful, imperfect father who is barely given any jokes about his size and has a pregnant wife, and the villain's sidekick looks like a hunk but thinks like a monkey. The main protagonist does not get a love interest (until the TV show, that is), he is just simply a misogynist before he... |