Kronk's New Groove is a direct-to-video sequel to The Emperor's New Groove. As stated by the title, it focuses on Kronk. The story is pretty simple, Kronk is retelling the story about his life after the events of the first movie. By all accounts, his life is pretty satisfactory and he is happy. However, a spanner is thrown into the works when he receives a letter from his father stating that he is going to visit. Unfortunately for Kronk, he had lied about owning a big house and having a family. The plot deviates a bit from this plot in the first 30 minutes, to the point where it felt like two separate stories merged together to get enough time for a movie. The first part has Yzma showing up again and relies too heavily on the same types of jokes in the first movie, making Kronk's New Groove lose its own identity. The second half fares better but is a typical story about doing the right thing and finding your one true love. Everything goes along as you'd expect so there are no surprises to the movie. The humor is average and on the weaker side, there is nothing original about any of the gags and it just feels like a typical kids cartoon. Overall, Kronk's New Groove is still worth a watch for fans of the original but comes off as more of a mediocre animation than anything solid.
