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  • Actors: Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh, Rosie Perez, Armand Assante, Edward James Olmos
  • Directors: Bibo Bergeron, David Silverman, Don Paul, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Will Finn
  • Writers: Karey Kirkpatrick, Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio
  • Format: Anamorphic, Animated, Dubbed, PAL
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: Dutch
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: U
  • Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 19 Jun 2006
  • Run Time: 89 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000059WZW
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 10,590 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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In its third foray into animated features, The Road to El Dorado, Dreamworks came up with something unfortunate: the routine animated picture. Plagued with production problems (it was originally conceived as a mould-breaking 12-rated adventure), the likable film is a Hope/Crosby-style road picture about two scallywags who stumble upon the Latin American paradise of El Dorado, the mythical city with riches of gold. Kenneth Branagh and Kevin Kline are quite fun as Miguel and Tuilo, two Spanish con artists who are shipwrecked in the New World with a scene-stealing horse. The pair follow a map to the secret city where their loyalty will be tested: do they return home rich men or continue to live in this paradise? Of course there are some obstacles: a high priest (Armand Assante) is locked in a power struggle with the benevolent chief (Edward James Olmos) and the perfunctory girlfriend (Rosie Perez) puts the two friends at odds. Like too many of the animated features of its time, The Road to El Dorado impresses only on a visual level (it's drenched in gorgeous greens and golds). The story and Elton John's songs are quite forgettable; only Branagh and Kline's playful banter keeps the film alive. Slick and light, it's a fine 83-minute entertainment for ages 5 and up, including the non-discriminating adult. --Doug Thomas, Amazon.com

Special Features
16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Dutch\German
English
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital 5.1 Dutch English German
Dolby Digital 5.1
Behind The Scenes Featurette
Basics Of Animation
Directors Commentary
Music Video
Booklet With Production Notes
Dutch


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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Road to Entertainment, 24 April 2004
By M. J. Webber (Stoke-on-Trent, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Road To El Dorado [VHS] [2000] (VHS Tape)
Please disregard the regrettably jaded and cynical Amazon review of thismovie! The Road to El Dorado is a delight from title to end-credits!Visually superb, the characters are dynamic and work together beautifully,with a line of witty banter second to none. Elton John's music iscertainly NOT "forgettable" (actually it took me a couple of weeks to stopwhistling the theme tune...) and the soundtrack CD is also a very goodbuy. The film is a good family view, and I mean a GOOD family view:children, adults, and even bored teenagers will enjoy this.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars It's a great movie., 25 April 2001
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Notwithstanding the five stars, I concede the reviewer Doug Thomas that some things are mediocre in this movie: the screenplay and the songs of Elton John. He did great songs, but he had had his best years - long ago. He is just reproducing and replicating his old tunes and musical arrangements. That is what I call routine.

However, but it is not really important, because of the wonderful created characters Miguel and Tuilo and their perfect selected voices of Kenneth Branagh and Kevin Kline. Moreover the nice setting of the jungle and the cities, the Maya as wll as the Spanish. Not to forget once again („Moses") the impressive animation of the water.

The movie is beautiful and really great fun. And there is no reason to care about the screenplay and the songs. They don't matter, anyway. Do yourself a favour and watch that.

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Underrated as a great "buddy movie", 4 Jun 2007
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First the good: Branagh and Kline do an excellent job at breathing life into the two main characters, Tulio and Miguel. "The Road to El Dorado" is at its heart a buddy-movie, and I breathed a sigh of relief when I saw that the two voice-actors had so much chemistry together. They performed well with an excellent script which was consistently light and often hilarious. The artwork, particularly for El Dorado itself, is breath-taking, with quite possibly the most beautiful, detailed backgrounds I've ever seen in any film. When Tulio and Miguel sailed though the archway to get their first glimpse of El Dorado, I think I actually gasped out loud! The representation of the gold as well is very impressive and realistic, even seven years on. I really couldn't rate it highly enough, and were I judging the film on this alone, I'd have no hesitation about giving it full marks.

The story and characters are quite well fleshed-out, although naturally the usual contrivances of all films are employed to get the heroes to their destination. Real conflict comes into play, however, and I will give the film its dues by saying that I was genuinely torn as to what I wanted to happen. Fans of action films set in "lost civilisations" - "The Mummy" and the Indiana Jones oeuvre spring to mind - will find this very easy to love.

The DVD itself comes with some decent features as well: an interesting director's commentary and and a fairly entertaining "making of" documentary. The subtitles don't always match the dialogue exactly, but only real sticklers for accuracy will care about that, I imagine!

Now the bad: While the landscapes were really beautiful, the characters themselves weren't quite so satisfying. There is limited range in both their physical appearances (a big head with a small, pointy nose describes most of them) and facial expressions. The story seems to lose itself in the final act, with a ferocious beast which doesn't quite seem to fit in with the Aztec (or Mayan, or Incan - the film never makes clear what people they are) civilisation. The ending too is a little unsatisfying. A huge disappointment were the songs written by Elton John. They are entirely unmemorable - with perhaps the exception of the slightly catchy "It's Tough To Be A God" - and often I felt even detracted from the film.

I don't wish to become too involved in the potential "conquerer/savage" discussion, so it's suffice to say that "El Dorado" handles the problematic area of the European settlers' treatment of the South American natives as well as it conceivably could. It is apparently set in a world where racial conflict is near-unknown: Tulio thinks nothing of the idea of taking the native woman Chel back to Spain with him, for example. The two civilisations are even able to understand one another from a start - something I found rather jarring (especially after Disney's "Pocahontas"'s relative success at showing the American/European language divide). While all this perhaps does not quite ring true, the film makes no real claim to be telling "real" history, and by editing out the less savoury truths, only then does the story become suitable for young children.

Overall, and in spite of my criticisms, this is a really wonderful film. I'd place it in my "top five" animated films of all time. From the gorgeous backgrounds to the excellent characters, this is a film which the entire family ought to be able to enjoy!
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