The King And I

Garish, animated junk. Not even the scattered remains of the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein score helps make any of this depressingly careless adaptation of the classic musical worth watching. Anna Leonowens (voiced by Miranda Richardson), a strong-willed Victorian governess, is invited to Siam in order to bring Western-style education to the many children of the Royal Family of the King of Siam. Anna is appalled by what she sees as repressive Siamese social traditions and is soon butting heads with the stubborn but charismatic King (Martin Vidnovic), a man whose interest in science and culture is undermined by an even greater interest in maintaining the status qu...