The Road to El Dorado

The Road to El Dorado is an animated film producer Bonne Radford and the Brooke Breton from the year 2000. The film includes songs by Sir Elton John and Tim Rice. The film had a budget of 95 million dollars, but played worldwide only $ 76.4 million back in and was a flop for the studio DreamWorks, the The Road to El Dorado so far as their second biggest flop after Titan AE referred to.

Action

The two Spanish Miguel and Tulio crooks win at a craps cheating by a map showing the way to El Dorado, the city of gold. On the run from the losers, they end up accidentally as stowaways on a ship of the ruthless conqueror Cortez, where they are discovered and imprisoned. Along with the horse Altivo them manages to escape in a lifeboat. After they achieve more by luck than judgment the New World, they follow the path that is marked on the map and get to the golden city, where they are received as gods. The cozy chief and high priest obsessed Tzekel - Kan both try to draw the favor to yourself. These latter wants to offer human sacrifices, which they eventually forbid him to them again and again. The locals Chel, in love with Tulio to help him and Miguel to play the role of the gods convincing, but it also leads quickly a rift between the two friends caused. When Miguel slightly injured, recognizes the high priest, that the newcomers are not gods, because gods do not bleed after his performance. Using his magical abilities, he brings a huge stone statue to life and tries to kill the two Spaniards, as they threaten his position of power. In the course of the fight he crashes into a raging underground stream which carries him outside the city and flushed back to the surface. Cortez and his men find him, and Tzekel - Kan, sees the real, relentless, doom -making gods in the Conquistadores, promises to lead them to El Dorado. Miguel and Tulio help the inhabitants to protect the city from the invaders, by bringing the only entrance, a tunnel to collapse. As Tzekel - Kan and Cortez ' expedition to reach the previous entry, you can find it closed. The enraged conqueror continues his men, convinced that they eat up a lie of the priest. Tulio, Miguel, Chel and Altivo, now also locked out, making his way back to Spain.

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Criticism

Encyclopedia of the International film: Lined adventure film that dabbles in things " adult " animation. Quite telling entertaining and poignant, it follows ultimately too-familiar patterns of action, which he is able to add any new aspects by means of draughtsmanship.