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King and I, The (1999) Movie Reviews

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Movie critics combined give King and I, The (1999) a score of 1.8737 out of 4

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, based on one of Broadway’s most successful musicals. I had talked with the film’s musical executive producer Mark Berger some time ago and was very eager to see the film’s incarnation on DVD and especially some of the bonus materials he had told...read the complete King and I, The (1999) review at DVD Review e-zine

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The Cincinnati Enquirer (Margaret A. McGurk)

Who, I ask you, imagined it would be wise to turn The King and I — one of the great musicals of the American theater — into an action-adventure cartoon? Based on a true story that also has been the subject of books and plays, the original tells...read the complete King and I, The (1999) review at The Cincinnati Enquirer (Margaret A. McGurk)

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Variety (Robert Koehler)

Broadway musical purists will shudder in horror, but parents will be whistling a happy tune that there's at least one acceptable pic out there for their kids....read the complete King and I, The (1999) review at Variety (Robert Koehler)

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Washington Post (Stephen Hunter)

An animated King and I? Now there's torture, especially in this wretched, lurid, absurd concoction which seems to have been conceived to annoy adults and bore children....read the complete King and I, The (1999) review at Washington Post (Stephen Hunter)

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