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starstarstar Nancy Churnin - Dallas Morning News
starstarstar Jeff Millar - Houston Chronicle
starstarstar John Petrakis - Chicago Tribune
starstarstar Jeff Vice - Deseret News
starstarstar Anita Gates - NY Times
starstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
starstar Robert Koehler - Variety
starstar Mike Clark - USA Today
starstar Michael O’Sullivan - Washington Post
starstar James Berardinelli - ReelViews
starstar Gene Seymour - Newsday
star Susan Stark - Detroit News
star Mark Burger - Winston-Salem Journal
  Lisa Schwarzbaum - EW
  Robert Horton - Film.com

“The jewels of  The King and I are the magnificently sung songs”

- Nancy Churnin

“In its own stupid way, the animated version of  The King and I embodies just about everything that’s wrong with moviemaking at the end of the millennium”

- Robert Horton

The King and I
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An outspoken English teacher teaches a Siamese king to rule more compassionately, in this animated version of Rodgers & Hammerstein's classic. Voices of Armi Arabe, David Burnham, Alan Hong, Christiane Noll, Miranda Richardson, Martin Vidnovic. Director: Richard Rich (1999, G)
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