mariajosenilsson This movie is great. It has very good music, lovely ambiance, likable characters and cute story. I read a dumb comment where a Thai was complaining about the magic and crap because it's "not real". This is not a documentary...It's a movie for kids and it's meant to entertain. This movie is great. It has very good music, lovely ambiance, likable characters and cute story. I read a dumb comment where a Thai was complaining about the magic and crap because it's "not real". This is not a documentary...It's a movie for kids and it's meant to entertain. It has very good music, lovely ambiance, likable characters and cute story. I read a dumb comment where a Thai was complaining about the magic and crap because it's "not real". This is not a documentary...It's a movie for kids and it's meant to entertain.

mmka1 I could not believe my eyes when I saw that WXMI (a FOX station) would be showing this horrible creation! yet here it is, noon, 15 March 2009, and it is actually being shown.The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical is brilliant theatre, but is still revisionist history at best. The musical was based on Margaret Landon's novel "Anna and the King of Siam" (1944), a work of fiction.This animated piece of c*@P is not only an insult to anyone with a brain that can read a history book, it pours mud on the work of a talented team that created the original musical.Anna Leon-Owens was a shameless self-promoter and outright liar (I read all her disrespectful error filled books). Perhaps the producers of this monstrosity thought that they would simply carry-on her outrageous flights of fantasy.

TheLittleSongbird I have both versions on video, and I'll admit the 1956 version is much better. I had mixed feelings on this version, but I hated most of the plot changes. Many important bits that worked so well in the 1956 version were changed and replaced with hackneyed plot-holes. The saving grace is the songs, and the singing is passable. The best is Christianne Noll, and Barbara Streisand singing in the end credits was a treat. Back to the bad. The voice talents were OK, but there were a lot of dodgy accents. Miranda Richardson does well, and her character animation is good too. Martin Vidnovic was trying to replicate Yul Brynner, and in no way did he succeed. Adam Wylie has a false English accent, that was shown when he was singing, because his American accent was heard. Ian Richardson is a really good actor, but I was expecting more from him. He had lots of really good lines, but his delivery just felt a bit OTT. The worst character was Master Little, who was funny for only ten minutes, and then the occurring joke about teeth wore thin far too early. Don't get me started on the animals. they were cute at first, but they served no purpose at all to the plot, especially Moonshee. As for the animation, most of it was good, but why on earth did they animate a sea dragon and moving statues that were only there for a couple of seconds, I didn't get it! As for the romance between Tuptim and the Prince it was so unnecessary, and the romance between Anna and the king was painfully underdeveloped. And why did they change the ending? The ending in the 1956 version was so poignant, and this one was pointless. In conclusion, only watch it if you haven't seen the fantastic Yul Brynner version, otherwise you'll be disappointed. 5/10 Bethany Cox

digitalzen-1 I saw Yul Brynner play the king about four months before he died. As long ago as that was, his version is etched in my mind. For that reason I may have approached this abomination with my mind already made up.That notwithstanding, the following: the animation was only passable. That has come to be the norm in cheap TV cartoons for five-year-olds, but a full-length feature based on a well-known story deserves better. Today's computer animation leaves no excuse for a two-dimensional, poorly-drawn screenplay.The voices are at odds with the drama -- either overplayed or under, rarely right on. Brynner could parody himself and get away with it. Vidnovic isn't up to the job. That said, his accent was enough like The King that it got me a couple of times. The singing is passable, but I swear I could hear the electronics occasionally.The liberties taken with the plot are unacceptable. They not only detract from and confuse the story line, they grate on the nerves. I suppose they thought only kids would watch this thing. In my own case, I wish they had been right.Rent the original. See what a real musical with real people is all about. Give this version a pass.