The King and I (1999)

User Rating:

2.9/10   

Director:

Richard Rich

Writers:

Margaret Landon (book)
Oscar Hammerstein II (adapted from the musical by)

Release Date:

19 March 1999 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Family | Fantasy | Musical

Plot Keywords:

Dinner Party | Siamese Cat | Fall From Height | Dragon | Jungle

Awards:

5 nominations

Cast

Miranda Richardson	...	Anna Leonowens (voice)
Christiane Noll	...	Anna Leonowens (singing voice)
Martin Vidnovic	...	The King of Siam (voice)
Ian Richardson	...	The Kralahome (voice)
Darrell Hammond	...	Master Little (voice)
Allen D. Hong	...	Prince Chululongkorn (voice)
David Burnham	...	Prince Chululongkorn (singing voice)
Armi Arabe	...	Tuptim (voice)
Tracy Venner Warren	...	Tuptim (singing voice)
Adam Wylie	...	Louis Leonowens (voice)
Sean Smith	...	Sir Edward Ramsay (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Alexandra Lai	...	Princess Ying (voice)
Katherine Lai	...	Princess Naomi (voice)
Tony Pope	...	Burmese Emissary (voice) (as Anthony Mozdy)
Ed Trotta	...	Sir Edward's Captain (voice)

Runtime:

87 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

Iceland:L | USA:G (certificate #36540) | Argentina:Atp | Australia:G | France:U | Germany:o.Al. | New Zealand:G | Peru:PT | Spain:T | UK:U

Company:

Morgan Creek Productions

Trivia:

The original Broadway production of "The King and I" opened at the St. James Theater on March 29, 1951, ran for 1246 performances and won the 1952 Tony Award (New York City) for the Best Musical.

Quotes:

The King of Siam: Someday, you too will know everything.
Prince Chululongkorn: When do I know that I know everything?
The King of Siam: When you are king.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Troldspejlet: (#24.3)" (2000)

Soundtrack:

I Have Dreamed

Don't blame on them because they're just playing it safe.

I thought this cartoon version was okay. I guess whoever produce it or put this together was trying to make this version to be as much appropriate for children viewers or as I would say "kiddy" as possible. If your children would have seen the 1956 version which I would definitely recommend later, I think that version would have seem inappropriate because it had a lot of adult themes and contents. What I see that I considered as the adult themes and contents in the 1956 version are

1.) Anna and The King (both portrayed by Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner) friendship turned into a complicated love affair. Plus, Tuptim cheating behind the King's back. TOO MUCH FOR CHILDREN!

2.) In the movie both Anna and The King talked about sexuality and other adult issues. Here's proof: The King explains how he is the "bee" and the women are his "blossoming flowers" and Anna told The King "to him, she is just another bowl of rice" (like every other woman) well it's a long story . This is definitely Rated R.

3.) The King has very many wives plus concubines and whole head of children (which explains you don't have to be a polygamous Mormon). For parents how would you explain that to your children " Ummm, The King likes to sleep around and ends up having a bunch of kids?". Huh.

4.) No matter how much I enjoy this movie, I always thought that Yul Brynner was such a hunk.... When I was little kid before they even thought about the cartoon version (flashbacks, again) and remembering how much I drooled over Brynner. They kinda put Brynner out as a sex object( Here's proof, Brynner was half naked throughout film, you what I mean). I had never seen so many women and girls who come up to me and tell me about their crushes and fantasies on Brynner in this film (it's not even funny). Would you want your young daughter to say " Oh momma, the guy who plays the king, he's hot!" and you shockingly answer back "What did you say, Linda?"(like I said flashbacks, again). I thought Tuptim's man LunTha was a cutie pie too. You don't want your kids to have these "weird" thoughts about the characters, it is too early to think that way. Let them be young and not to grow them up to soon.

5.) Even though I am not a guy but I do have friends who are males that do enjoy this movie and some of them do say that Deborah Kerr and Rita Moreno were very beautiful and elegant and other things I don't want to explain.

To see 1956 version I suggest you wait until your children hits 20 or 30 or probably 40, they can wait. I'm just kidding just as long as they are not eight or five (too early).

This is good for the kids and kids only I thought this production (1999 version aka cartoon version) was playing it safe. They did a good job by changing some of the plots.

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