As a pakistani i would say that for a american it would be different due to cultural differences but the film was extremly popular in pakistan due to recent poltical situation in pakistan as are former prime minister was arrested due to corruption charges and pakistan does have some good animated stuff like burka avenger and 3 bahadur but it is still a developing industry also finally they fucked the english localization so much that i understand why english speaking audiences would find it cringey like if you listen the urdu versiom of the songs they are so many times better (Sorry for my poor english) I actually remembered one thing that all the stuff like voter suppression and electoral fraud and the fox admiration of boots is representation that the military is secretly controlling the goverment

“[the protagonist is] stupid, annoying, random, loud, blunt, wants to be rich, wants to have a girlfriend” Greg Heffley: Did someone call me?

The confusion behind this movie actually make sense because that’s how nonsensical real politics are

I have to be honest. That “hear all evil, speak all evil and show all evil” joke is really clever.

you forgot to put in the gay line. the line where mangu tells the prince to take his hand and the prince says "you'll have to ask my father". like. legit best line in the whole film. i love this movie.

Immediately, the hole in his tooth is making me uncomfortable.

"he's stupid, he's annoying, he's random... he wants to be rich, wants a girlfriend" sounds weirdly like shark tale

"In A Anthropomorphic World, Humans Are Canon." Sonic: Hold My Beer.

“I’ll send them to the sun, because it’s bigger!” His intelligence is unquantifiable, you could never even imagine it.

"I'll send animals to the *SUN* because it's *B* *I* *G* *G* *E* *R* " what a power move

The fox character being named "Fitna" is honestly very clever considering what her role in the movie is supposed to be. In Arabic, "Fitna" means "conflict" which in this movie fits since she was trying to cause conflict and pull the strings, etc. It's such a shame her character was poorly executed though. Also the name can mean "sexual temptation" so the joke you made was even more hilarious than it was lmao

That the human character only growls, laughs and grunts actually is an amazing designe choice!

"Give the people an illusion of choice that they are actually voting" Probably the most accurate thing in that entire film lmao

"an animated show about washing your hands" man he was way ahead of his time

“He has arthritis and has to step down” But he can’t, because he has arthritis

The fact the human ringmaster communicates in growls and inhuman laughter is a nice way to show he is lower than the literal anthro animals in the movie.

Saberspark: "no no, I'm not a furry! It's just for the meme!" Also Saberspark: <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="457">7:37</a>

Bearnie Sanders: "I am once again asking you for picnic basket support."

i think the fox girl talking to the audience were supposed to be kinda like old looney tunes fourth wall breaks, like "Y'know? I think that duck's screwy!"

"I will send them to the sun, because it's bigger" that actually made me laugh and I am sick right now and coughing a lot so it didn't help.

Saberspark: "I'm not a furry!" Also Saberspark: <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="459">7:39</a>

"And in the future, Monkey News will show no evil!" "Uhh there's a serial killer on the loose right now. Shouldn't we make viewers aware of-" "SHOW NO EVIL!!!"

Dan Green was the only actor who did a good job representing his character in my opinion. He’s excellent at making characters sound depressed or disappointed. His wife’s passing probably contributed to that ability. Dan, if you’re reading this, I’m sorry you had to go through that. You were a huge part of my childhood, so I only wish the best for you and your twins.

I'm now legally obligated to sing "Washing the Clothes" everytime I do laundry. Thanks Saber.

I find it rather weird that only the donkeys have ""realistic"" hooves

the ring master communicating in nothing but growls and laughs in a movie of talking anthropomorphic animals was a pretty neat idea.

I kinda thought he would put the bear in charge at the end because he seems to know what the people want and how to lead them

Thanks to this video, I can no longer do my laundry without ominously chanting “washing the clothes. Washing the clothes. Washing the clothes.”

I'll tell you what The Donkey King isn't: Veggie Tales.

My wife: What are you watching? Me: I'm watching a grown man make a 30 minute critique of a children's movie from Pakistan.

“Ok 3 2 1 let’s jam” <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1148">19:08</a>

To be fair, in the United States, the President is the Head of State, Head of Government, and the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces. In most countries (Pakistan included), those are three separate roles filled by three separate individuals.

I don't know why, but that hole in his tooth drives me insane.

"hear no evil, see no evil, and show no evil" sounds like a terrible motto for a news agency and just as biased as before they became "good"

Saber: "I'm not a furry" Also Saber: <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="457">7:37</a>

“Americans may have trouble relating to this” They… they made a donkey the main character, they wanted down to the 1%, and they protested corruption…

*Saberspark:* The Veggietales video is gonna take one more week, but it's gonna be amazing! One week later... *Saberspark:* I'm sorry, guys. The Veggietales video is gonna take one more week, but it's gonna be the best video i've made! 150 years later... *Saberspark:* The Veggietales video is gonna take one more week, but it's gonna be worth the wait!

Fun fact: "Fitna" doesn't have a direct translation from Arabic, rather it is a concept that can take many forms, all of them have to do with influence and taking over one's mind: - Conflict (polarizing parties against each other) - Conspiracy - Charm (seduction / lust) - Distraction - Downfall (irresistible weakness) It's a brilliant name to give to a fox imo

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="570">9:30</a> sooooooo I paused in the wrong time

It's the Goofy walking Pluto thing.

Not gonna lie “I’ll send them to the Sun! Because it’s bigger!” kinda killed me

Okay, I actually laughed my head off at that "I'll send them to the sun, because it's bigger!" line

Saberspark suddenly becoming sussy with the Fitna joke

The funny part about comparing this to the Russian Revolution is that during the Russian Revolution, a provisional government overthrew the Czar and the monarchist government, then the Bolsheviks overthrew the provisional government

Can we talk about how they literally use Comic Sans on the protest signs?

I can't be the only one bothered by the fact that Mangu has a hole going straight through his tooth

*bicky bicky Bonky bicky bicky bonky time for the king to be a donkey*

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="438">7:18</a> So you’re telling me we went from Mewtwo to arthritis lion?

That hole in Mangu's tooth is really painful to look at

When he said "Inkie binky bonky" I felt that.

It's really random but I like how sometimes his talking matches the characters' lipsinking at least once in most of these videos

This seems to be a mockbuster crossover Sherk and Zootopia with a title that reminds me of Donkey Kong.

Saber: "And I've been on a binge of watching-" Me: Anthro movies? Saber: "international content." Me: Yeah... ok.

ATTENTION, government roles are different here. The PM usually has more power then the president. And many more random changes. this clears up the weird lion scene.

“Better than Disney! Better than Pixar!” <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="182">3:02</a> *Crown clips through ear*

She reminds me of the fox woman from that North Korean anime you once did a review on. The human she's talking to on the phone looks like an extreme caricature of Jim Sterling.

The sun is bigger than the moon joke is honestly really funny

"In life you've got to face your problems, not Facebook them." That's the best moral this movie could have.

I agree with almost all of these points. I think an important point that wasn't discussed was that the human ringmaster was meant to blanket represent western nations (which is why his silhouette matches that of uncle sam, despite traditional circus masters/ringmasters have a really round, short, and stout silhouette). It doesn't recover the movie but it's an important part. Also the OST is a lot better in the original language ha ha. Great video, I know it's old, but I thought I'd mention it anyways!

The donkey king literally told the future

So... let me get this straight: This is Zootopia, additionally inspired by House of Cards and The Crown, but also with Sing subplot. Oh and Joshua and the Promised Land, with sparkly ghost fairy thing!

Donkey is not cheating on dragon. this is just his past. Remember when he talked about getting wedgie's and swirlies? This is what he meant.

I love how with Saber, his videos are pretty chill for the most part, and then he'll remind us how out of pocket he can be and casually drops a <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="458">7:38</a>

i actually recognized the safeguard handwash now that you mentioned it, im not pakistani, but i am filipino and ive seen ads abt it on tv and on youtube in my country

That hole in his tooth gives me uncomfortable chills

Washing the clothes sounds like a musical that takes place in a sweatshop.

'Other nations send animals to the moon, I'll send them to the SUN' is such a banger of a line like wtf it had me laughing lol

Its called Donkey king because the people who made this are Donkeys

"Fitn his **** in her ***..." Best Saberspark line this year and definitely one of his best ever.

bruh that fitna joke, MAN saber really let himself out with that one lol

The character designs are very good. A lot of lower budget animated films don't know how to make FASHIONABLE anthro animals. This film does. On another note, I do wonder how much the plot got mangled in the dubbing process, because this seems like a film where trying to make it easy for English speaking kids to understand would take precedence over nuances in the OG script.

“You should be king” “No I’m far to old” “Ok, I’ll be king… but make you king” “Ok sounds good”

"The bull is defeated" UMM THAT BULL IS DEAD.

I really wish there was a sub for me to watch of this movie but I can't find any. Also, all of the songs that were sung in the original language are region locked here on KZfaq. As I said in my video, I give the benefit of the doubt to the original vision but this dub was truly horrendous

I'm a writer and u actually wrote a sad but interesting fan story about fitna. October 13th, 1988, Fitna was born. She loved her mother lisa a lot, then at age 5, her mom was killed by fitnas cousin dafne, dafne didn't want to shoot fitnas mom. But Daf did because she's being forced to become a member of a terrorist group, Fitna was left into a severe depression for about 29 years. Then she met a Cartoon demon named Howard. He saw her as the love of his love. They then became a very happy couple. Fitna also experienced the events of the donkey king in 2013(the movies in 2018 but whatever). She didn't die but needed medical and mental help. She was being violently assualted by the human from the movie. She was almost R*ped by the human when she tried to escape and get the help of a close friend of hers. Then in 2019. She became a Cia agent and right now. She's living a better and happy life with her friends and family. She's a good woman forced to be bad. She also had her neices who are swats trying to find her during the movies events. This movie would be triggering fitnas PTSD from the human she still is after for revenge. Her cousin dafne then finally escaped the terrorist group she was force to be in. Then on her birthday in 2022, a crazy phyco doctor who's her doctor brought her mom back from the dead. So she's now a happy fox with her friends and family by her side? How did I do with the story? Anything needed to change?

“Mongu, my son, listen, I want you to capture Sonic the hedgehog so that he can’t stop my plans”

Not gonna lie. Everytime finta was talking around the human she sounded extremely fearful. Almost like there is more to their companionship than meets the eye. If they had given a backstory to her then the movie would make ten times more sense. Props to her voice actor btw

FYI: Fitna is an urdu word meaning 'unrest' basically something that causes disorder and calamity

I mean the human's sounds make sense because although every animal makes many sounds, we always say they make one like cats only going meow and dogs going woof so saying the sound humans make is hahaha makes sense in animal POV logic

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="456">7:36</a> thank you for keeping that in.

“Whenever George Washington beat the British, he did a breakdance on stage” **john mulaney voice** I don’t remember that in Hamilton!

Who else wanted to hear Ronald Crump say "We're gonna build a swimming lake, and the crocs are going to pay for it"

I am a Pakistani/ Candadian, and growing up learning about film entertainment, i can toally agree with your points. I watched the movie in Pakistan and all I could say I liked (if I had to like something) is the animation.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="527">8:47</a> *NOT HIM. MEEEEEEE!*

“Sing”, that’s it. That’s the Universe it shares with.

Not so fun fact : something extremely similar to donky Kings' political tale happened in Iran. The only difference is that we didn't get the happy ending after.

"Commander in chief" is not a role which makes the king the leader of the country. On it's own, the role just means he is in charge of the millitary. It's a relatively unique thing in the US to have the President also be the Commander in chief

can we appreciate that a tiger in this was named "MR PROPAGANDA" <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1671">27:51</a>

Speak evil, hear evil, show evil. That's actually pretty clever.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="133">2:13</a> don't worry! we have the Dettol Warriors too!

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="139">2:19</a> this reminded me of that one Disney series where it was old lady inspector gadget and the little girl who always had to piss

That joke about the name "Fitna" totally caught me off guard, and Saber still doesn't want to admit he's a furry.

As a Brazilian, the scene where the potential candidates go through American Idol-like auditions was very relatable. Ironic voting is a huge deal here, and due to our electoral laws one hugely voted candidate can bring a number of less popular candidates from the same party along with him into power. So some parties choose wacky candidates who run wacky campaigns to hopefully gain a bunch of ironic votes and pave the way for less popular but politically more interesting candidates. So yeah, Pakistan and Brazil are very different, and yet much of the themes in this cartoon seemed very familiar.

"Can we please get Zootopia?" "No, we already have Zootopia at home." Zootopia at home:

Someone had a vision. I can respect that. The animation is like… almost good… it’s like right on the edge of being good

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="460">7:40</a> I don’t think that was in the script, Saber just felt the sudden urge to exclaim that.

Question to add to the inconsistency: why does the donkey have a hoof but the antropromorphic bulls have hands?

I like how this review sparked some new fanart of Fitna

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="742">12:22</a> sound good, it has my vote

*"Other nations want to send animals to the Moon. I'll senD theM to the SUN! CUZ ITS BIGGER"* LMAO that part actually got me😆🤣