I Like Monday 24
This Monday, I like... Kronk.
Image taken from Fanpop - character of Kronk copyright the Walt Disney Company
Oh, Kronk. What would The Emperor's New Groove do without you? You were only meant to be the secondary comic relief but you turned out to be the best damn thing in that movie. You have a shoulder-angel and devil! You do your own theme music! You talk to squirrels! You are AWESOME!
You're also cheekily self-referential. The movie-makers use Kronk at various points to poke fun at their own film. The Emperor's New Groove is something of a mess; my sisters and I always joke that it has no plot whatsoever. When Kuzco questions Yzma and Kronk about how they managed to arrive at Yzma's lab, having earlier fallen down a canyon, Kronk's response ("Well, you got me. By all accounts, it doesn't make any sense.") sounds to me like the scriptwriters slyly pointing out that none of this movie makes any sense! Another example: when Kronk's attempt to crush Yzma with a falling chandelier fails, his comment of "Strange, that usually works," is clearly a joke about the story's reliance on cliches - such as the cliche of the bumbling henchman which Kronk is supposed to fulfil. And in a scene with the royal dresser, Kronk makes fun of his impossibly angular anatomy: "I should tell you right now, I'm kinda hard to fit. I wear a 66 long and a 31 waist." That the character voicing the sly digs at the movie's faults and quirks is also supposed to be the stupidest one in the room, gives those audience members who are more than five years old something to laugh about - and somebody to root for, in a film where the "protagonists" are a self-centred egotist and a rather bland family-man type.
There are inconsistencies in Kronk's characterisation which irritate me (he is perfectly happy to poison Kuszco but has an attack of conscience about throwing him down a waterfall >.>); then again, the whole film is one big inconsistency. But his cheerful silliness, love of cookery and nature, and quotable dialogue make him one of my favourite Disney characters. Long live Kronk!
Image taken from Fanpop - character of Kronk copyright the Walt Disney Company
Oh, Kronk. What would The Emperor's New Groove do without you? You were only meant to be the secondary comic relief but you turned out to be the best damn thing in that movie. You have a shoulder-angel and devil! You do your own theme music! You talk to squirrels! You are AWESOME!
You're also cheekily self-referential. The movie-makers use Kronk at various points to poke fun at their own film. The Emperor's New Groove is something of a mess; my sisters and I always joke that it has no plot whatsoever. When Kuzco questions Yzma and Kronk about how they managed to arrive at Yzma's lab, having earlier fallen down a canyon, Kronk's response ("Well, you got me. By all accounts, it doesn't make any sense.") sounds to me like the scriptwriters slyly pointing out that none of this movie makes any sense! Another example: when Kronk's attempt to crush Yzma with a falling chandelier fails, his comment of "Strange, that usually works," is clearly a joke about the story's reliance on cliches - such as the cliche of the bumbling henchman which Kronk is supposed to fulfil. And in a scene with the royal dresser, Kronk makes fun of his impossibly angular anatomy: "I should tell you right now, I'm kinda hard to fit. I wear a 66 long and a 31 waist." That the character voicing the sly digs at the movie's faults and quirks is also supposed to be the stupidest one in the room, gives those audience members who are more than five years old something to laugh about - and somebody to root for, in a film where the "protagonists" are a self-centred egotist and a rather bland family-man type.
There are inconsistencies in Kronk's characterisation which irritate me (he is perfectly happy to poison Kuszco but has an attack of conscience about throwing him down a waterfall >.>); then again, the whole film is one big inconsistency. But his cheerful silliness, love of cookery and nature, and quotable dialogue make him one of my favourite Disney characters. Long live Kronk!