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The Emperor's New Groove

2000 · directed by Mark Dindal · 78 min
24,946 feet · Prominence
506th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw66

Lifetime worldwide gross $169m, re-releases included; about $324m in 2026 money.

Rank1,052 of 11,051In 200025 of 196

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise78

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics78 baseAwards0 signal → +0 lift

No award rows on file, usually missing data rather than missing honours. Wikidata is thin for older and non-English films.

How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy62

Judged directly: Kronk and 'pull the lever' meme immortality.

Verdict62 of 100IMDb7.4 from 246kWikipedia46k views a monthAge26 years

Scored beside it · 489 of 4,039 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 66 praise 78 legacy 62averages 69, placing it at24,946 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

Whose apex this is

▲ David Spade▲ Eartha Kitt

In these careers — elevation for this film

David Spade19,592 ftJohn Goodman19,329 ftPatrick Warburton18,568 ftEartha Kitt18,281 ftJohn Fiedler17,645 ftDanny Mann17,633 ftRodger Bumpass17,631 ft