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Rated: G; Genres: Animation, Musical; With: Miranda Richardson and Martin Vidnovic
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By Troy Patterson
Troy Patterson
Troy Patterson is a critic for EW. He lives in Brooklyn.

Animating Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical about an English schoolteacher's battle of wills with the king of Siam isn't a bad idea, but grafting Disney-style elements like a conniving prime minister/sorcerer, a gang of cute animals, and loads of painful slapstick is. Older viewers will cringe at the unctuous treatment in The King and I, and kids will simply be bored. C-


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Posted Jul 09, 1999
 

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