History Trivia / TheEmperorsNewGroove

* DuelingMovies: Against ''two'' films, to boot: ''WesternAnimation/TheRoadToElDorado'' from Creator/DreamWorks, and ''Doraemon: Nobita and the Legend of the Sun King'' from Japan, all three of which take place in Mesoamerica. Disney themselves released ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' to go up against ''El Dorado''. ''New Groove'' did win since it got better reviews and ''El Dorado'' bombed and sunk that franchise immediately. ''Legend of the Sun King'' as part of a [[Manga/{{Doraemon}} wider franchise]] became the highest-grossing film at $32 million, but obviously it pales in comparison to the $169 million ''Emperor'' earned due to not being released outside of East Asia (since the series it's part of is unknown outside of the region).

* PlayingAgainstType:
** Wendie Malick, usually known for playing {{deadpan snarker}}s, plays a sweet (though still somewhat sarcastic) housewife and mother of two.
** For the Disney Animated Canon, this is tons of humor-oriented moments that wouldn't be out of place for a [=DreamWorks=] film.

** In addition to Bucky the squirrel, Creator/BobBergen also voices [[Film/TheFly1986 the fly]] that Kuzco sees in the jungle.

** Related to TroubledProduction: Mrs. "Sting", Trudie Styler, filmed a (slightly unfinished) documentary on the film's production, ''The Sweatbox''. It was screened once, but since Disney owns this document of chaos, they make sure it never gets released (very likely due to there being a large amount of swearing in it), though it was briefly leaked on the internet in March 2012. Website/PlatypusComix did a review when they got hands on the workprint, which can be found [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/educational/thesweatbox.html here.]]

** In the Brazilian dub, Kuzco is voiced by Selton Mello (who ironically initally started his career as voice actor, providing voices for the Brazilian dub of movies like ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'' and ''Film/TheGoonies'' and even voiced Doofus Drake in ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987''), Pacha is voiced by Humberto Martins, Yzma is voiced by Marieta Severo and Theme Song Guy is voiced by famous musician Ed Motta (who previously worked with Disney in ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'' by singing the Brazilian version of "Someday", and the Brazilian dub of the songs from ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'').

** The Italian title follows the Latin formula and it is literally translated as "The Emperor's Crazy Antics".

** The film started out as a PrinceAndPauper film called ''Kingdom of the Sun'' in 1994, described by ''Lion King'' co-director Roger Allers as an "epic picture mixing elements of adventure, comedy, romance and mysticism". It would have been in the traditional style of ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast''. The plot would've involved a greedy, selfish emperor who finds a peasant who looks just like him, so the emperor swaps places with the peasant for fun. Meanwhile, the evil witch Yzma has plans to summon the evil god Supai and capture the sun so that she may retain her youth forever. Discovering the switch between the prince and the peasant, Yzma turns the emperor into a llama and threatens to reveal the pauper's identity unless he obeys her. The emperor learns AnAesop about humility, and ends up loving a llama herder named Mata. Together, she and the emperor set out to stop Yzma's evil plans. Sting was signed on as the song composer. Disney execs thought that due to the poor critical and commercial reception of ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'', both of which were serious dramatic musicals in the vein of ''Sun'', the film would be unsuccessful. Compounding this was the fact that the release date had been firmly set at the year 2000, and by 1998 it was clear that production would not wrap up in time. Disney execs ordered production on ''Sun'' to be halted. Almost all the original plot points and characters were scrapped. Most of Sting's compositions were cut as well. The film became transformed into a "''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' meets Franchise/TheMuppets"-style slapstick buddy comedy. While the end result was warmly received by critics, who found it a breath of fresh air compared to most of Disney's fare, animator Andreas Deja, who supervised animation on Yzma during ''Sun'', was displeased with what the film was reworked into, and left to work on ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'' before the retool. Allers was also disappointed with the final film, calling it a "simple slapstick comedy", and saying that if he had had more time, he could've made the film according to his original visions.

** In Castillian Spanish, the title is changed to ''The Emperor and his Crazy Things''. In Latin American Spanish, the order is changed to "The Crazy Things of the Emperor".

** Kuzco was originally named Manco until someone realized that it was also the Japanese word for "pussy".

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** [[GoodAngelBadAngel/AnimatedFilms Good Angel, Bad Angel - Animated Films]]
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** ItsAllAboutMe
** LeanAndMean
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* QuoteSource:
** GoodAngelBadAngel
** GreasySpoon
** HashHouseLingo
** HiddenDisdainReveal
** InevitableWaterfall
** InventionalWisdom
** MinorInsultMeltdown
** MusicalisInterruptus
** OffScreenTeleportation
** OptOut
** SuddenlyFluentInGibberish
** TopHeavyGuy
** WasItAllALie

** UnreliableVoiceover

** In the Mexican Spanish dub, Kuzco was originally planned to be [[CelebrityVoiceActor dubbed by a soap opera actor]] (Arath de la Torre, to be exact), and while he did finish the dub, and was payed for it, it was never used because Walt Disney's Mexican branch didn't like his performance and, probably to avoid another sub-par performance with the main character (just like they did with the dub of ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}''), he was replaced with Creator/JesusBarrero, who originally only dubbed him in the trailers.

* FanNickname: The final product is referred to as the "Dindal Cut" to help differentiate it with the "Allers Cut".

** In the Brazilian dub, Kuzco is voiced by Selton Mello (who ironically initally started his career as voice actor, providing voices for the Brazilian dub of movies like ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'' and ''Film/TheGoonies'' and even voiced Doofus Drake in ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987''), Pacha is voiced by Humberto Martins, Yzma is voiced by Marieta Severo and Theme Song Guy is voiced by famous musician Ed Motta (who previously worked with Disney in ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' by singing the Brazilian version of "Someday", and the Brazilian dub of the songs from ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'').

** The film started out as a PrinceAndPauper film called ''Kingdom of the Sun'' in 1994, described by ''Lion King'' co-director Roger Allers as an "epic picture mixing elements of adventure, comedy, romance and mysticism". It would have been in the traditional style of ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast''. The plot would've involved a greedy, selfish emperor who finds a peasant who looks just like him, so the emperor swaps places with the peasant for fun. Meanwhile, the evil witch Yzma has plans to summon the evil god Supai and capture the sun so that she may retain her youth forever. Discovering the switch between the prince and the peasant, Yzma turns the emperor into a llama and threatens to reveal the pauper's identity unless he obeys her. The emperor learns AnAesop about humility, and ends up loving a llama herder named Mata. Together, she and the emperor set out to stop Yzma's evil plans. Sting was signed on as the song composer. Disney execs thought that due to the poor critical and commercial reception of ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', both of which were serious dramatic musicals in the vein of ''Sun'', the film would be unsuccessful. Compounding this was the fact that the release date had been firmly set at the year 2000, and by 1998 it was clear that production would not wrap up in time. Disney execs ordered production on ''Sun'' to be halted. Almost all the original plot points and characters were scrapped. Most of Sting's compositions were cut as well. The film became transformed into a "''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' meets Franchise/TheMuppets"-style slapstick buddy comedy. While the end result was warmly received by critics, who found it a breath of fresh air compared to most of Disney's fare, animator Andreas Deja, who supervised animation on Yzma during ''Sun'', was displeased with what the film was reworked into, and left to work on ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'' before the retool. Allers was also disappointed with the final film, calling it a "simple slapstick comedy", and saying that if he had had more time, he could've made the film according to his original visions.

** There was going to be a short talking Incan statue sidekick for Yzma, Hukua, to be voiced by Harvey Fierstein (who previously worked with Disney on ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'').

** Originally, Kuzco was going to have a love interest named Mata. For the finished film, the character was scrapped and her name was given to the waitress.

** There was going to be a short talking Incan statue sidekick to be voiced by Harvey Feirstein.

* CelebrityVoiceActor: In the Japanese dub, Kuzco is voiced by actor Tatsuya Fujiwara, aka [[Film/BattleRoyale Shuya Nanahara]] and Light Yagami in the ''Film/DeathNote'''s live-action films. Likewise, the theme song guy is voiced by the late singer Hideki Saijo, who many anime fans would recognize him as the singer of the first opening theme of ''Anime/TurnAGundam'', "Turn A Turn".

* DawsonCasting: David Spade was in his thirties when he voiced the teenage Kuzco.

* QuoteSource: InevitableWaterfall

!!This film provides the page quote for:
* GoodAngelBadAngel
* GreasySpoon
* HashHouseLingo
* HiddenDisdainReveal
* InevitableWaterfall
* InventionalWisdom
* MinorInsultMeltdown
* MusicalisInterruptus
* OffScreenTeleportation
* OptOut
* SuddenlyFluentInGibberish
* TopHeavyGuy
* UnreliableVoiceover
* WasItAllALie

** Related to WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/OwenWilson was originally cast as Pacha[[note]]who originally was designed to look like a twin of Kuzco... who, by the way, was called "Manco" in the original version[[/note]]. He recorded all his dialogue but when the film was retooled, his voice work was thrown out. There also used to be a short talking Incan statue sidekick to be voiced by Harvey Feirstein. Kronk was nowhere in the story. Yzma's original carnation was creepier, less neurotic, far more threatening, and obsessed with becoming young and beautiful again.

** In the original ''Kingdom of the Sun'', Pacha would've been voiced by Creator/OwenWilson, who would later go on to voice [[WesternAnimation/{{Cars}} Lightning McQueen]].

* QuoteSource:
** InevitableWaterfall
** InventionalWisdom
** OptOut

** The European French title translates as ''Kuzco, The Egotistical Emperor'' (albeit with a very familiar term for 'egotistical'). The French Canadian title instead goes for the [[RuleOfThree above]] Norway title, albeit translated (''"Un Royaume pour un Llama"'').