DKC: Return to Krocodile Isle - Animated Short

Its been an incredible ride for the past 2.5 years. From working alongside Martin to develop the story outline, to helping build our team, to kasting voices- all of this…on top of what was already an incredible honor being able to provide the voices of Krusha/Kaboom/Swanky/The ‘K. Rool Rap’ Announcer, and even sing as some of the backing khoir! Absolutely INSANE. I’ve long wanted to bring the world of DKC to modern audiences with my world-building and endless knowledge of the games and series. I couldn’t have made it happen with Martin, Alex and Al. It’s been the highest honor.

"...Remind me if I ever were to kill myself, I could scale to the heights of your blind devotion and leap down towards YOUR IQ!" Pure poetry.

If anyone at Illumination is watching this, please let me make your Donkey Kong movie, I promise there's a decent chance that I might not screw it up, so please call me

"Remind me, If I ever want to kill myself, I could scale to the heights of your blind devotion, And leap down TOWARDS YOUR IQ!!!" And the reward for best insult spoken by a villain to their minion goes to...

Can't believe fans make a better villain song than a multi-billion-dollar entertainment company.....

DK completely forgetting about King K Rool is so in character

On the one hand: K.Rool going mad(der) after locking himself in the basement for 10 years is tragic. On the other hand: The Kremlings not thinking to check the basement for 10 years is hilariously on point for them. Oh, Klump earned that burn!

WHAT!?! These are the OG Voice Actors for K.Rool, Klump, & Skurvy! No wonder they sound so authentic.

I find the funniest part is sometime after his initial smash reveal, he’s casually chilling in DK’s own home for Banjo’s reveal. They finally got K. Rool some therapy and was able to make amends.

I love the implication that K. Rool's whole musical number, including him revealing himself to the rest of the Krew, was just a fever vision brought upon by the madness of his self isolation. Too ashamed of his failures as a leader to show his face to his Krew, but unable to bring himself to truly abandon them. He is only discovered by the others after his psychotic breakdown causes the basement to erupt in flames, as you can see by the boxes marked "Rool's Stuff (Fire Damage)" in the background of the mid-credits scene.

You can really tell how badly K.Rool wants both himself and the Kremlings to be seen as a legitimate and worthy adversary. Even if it means one final climactic showdown with his arch-rival where he may potentially meet his end, the King of the Kremlings wants to go down swinging, not to decay and be forgotten to time.

I love the idea that King K Rool missed all of the other smash games because he was too busy going nuts in the Kremling basement and Klump has cultivated a huge stack of letters inviting K Rool to smash lmao

Remember, if Nintendo takes this down it's canon. Seriously somebody fund this. I need a full series like this.

I can't believe they got the DKC cartoon voice actors in on this glorious project.

Probably one of the best things about this short is that we finally get to hear Campbell say the word "Kremling", something that has oddly never happened in the original series

“So he’s finally back, performing for you, If you know your place, You can join him too. Put your claws together, For a villain most cruel, Cau-Cau-Cause this time; He’s here to rule. “ Chills, man. My spine is tingling.

If any of the original voice actors are reading the comments. Just wanted to say thank you for joining in on this, I know a lot of people trash on the show from way back then but you guys seriously made my childhood so fun I tuned in to see each episode and hearing most of you guys again in these roles just put the biggest and dumbest smile on my face!

The Fact that Alex managed to bring almost every single VA from the Donkey Kong animated series in to voice the characters once again is amazing.

"I don't even like bananas!" I can't tell if this is a deep cut to DK Jungle Climber, but if it is... well done.

Never knew K. Rool had such a lovely singing voice!