The Road to El Dorado

  • Family
  • Adventure
  • Animation
  • Comedy
  • Fantasy
3/31/2000
89
PG

They came for the gold. They stayed for the adventure.

After a failed swindle, two con-men end up with a map to El Dorado, the fabled "city of gold," and an unintended trip to the New World. Much to their surprise, the map does lead the pair to the mythical city, where the startled inhabitants promptly begin to worship them as gods. The only question is, do they take the worshipful natives for all they're worth, or is there a bit more to El Dorado than riches?

Revenue:
$76,400,000
Budget:
$95,000,000

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  • Kamurai

    Decent watch at best, probably won't watch again, and can't recommend.

    This is a Dreamworks animation at a time when Disney was still doing strong 2d animations. It does look like Dreamworks attempted a shift to digital cell animation around the same time (based on this movie), so at least the animation is smooth and of a good quality.

    As with most Dreamworks products, I don't enjoy the same art style they seem to love, which always makes it a little hard for me to watch regardless of if the movie is actually good. I also didn't care for the voices, not saying the actors did a bad job, but the direction was of my taste.

    The story itself is based on El Dorado being a big deal, but as worthless as gold actually is, it is really har...

    September 22, 2020

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