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Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 5 Ratings

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 20
  2. Negative: 9 out of 20
  1. 63
    The animation itself is just OK. And the reworked script, despite some funny one-liners, is pretty much there just to pull the story along to its inevitable conclusion. [19 March 1999, Friday, p. A]
  2. Animated version of the Rogers & Hammerstein musical.
  3. 38
    Unappealing for children and adults alike, The King and I will likely bring families together in their mutual boredom.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 1 out of 2

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