Monday, August 12, 2013

The Road to El Dorado Review










The Road to El Dorado


Release Date: 7th September 2000 - Australia


Production Companies
DreamWorks Pictures (presents)
DreamWorks Animation

Distribution
20th Century Fox Australia


Genre: Animation/Family/
Adventure/Comedy

Rating: PG

Runtime: 89 minutes


Budget: $95,000,000

Box Office Gross:
$76,432,727 (Worldwide)


Plot Summary
While pulling off a scam, two wanted con men, Tulio and Miguel, get their hands on a map to El Dorado, the legendary Lost City of Gold. After being lost at sea, they wind up on the shores of El Dorado. They find the hidden city and are mistaken as gods by its natives. Obstacles lay ahead for these two rogues as they must save El Dorado and make the right decision!


Voice Cast
Kevin Kline - Tulio
Kenneth Branagh - Miguel
Rosie Pérez - Chel
Armand Assante - Tzekel-Kan
Edward James Olmos -
Chief Tannabok
Jim Cummings - Hernán Cortés
Frank Welker - Altivo
Tobin Bell - Zaragoza
Duncan Marjoribanks - Acolyte
Elijah Chiang - Kid #1
Cyrus Shaki-Khan - Kid #2
Elton John - Narrator

Crew
Directors - Eric "Bibo"
Bergeron and Don Paul
Additional Sequences - Will Finn and David Silverman
Writers - Ted Elliot, Terry Rossio and Phillip LaZebnik
Additional Dialogue - Karey
Kirkpatrick
Executive Producer - Jeffrey Katzenberg
Co-Executive Producer - Bill Damaschke
Producers - Bonne Radford and Brooke Breton
Visual Consultant - John Pohl
Production Designer - Christian Schellewald
Additional Production Designer/Storyboard
Artist - Vicky Jenson
Sequence Designer - Seth Engstrom
Sequence Designer/Layout Artist -
David James
Art Directors - Paul Lasaine,
Wendell Luebbe and Raymond Zibach
Additional Art Director - Sam Michlap
Character Designer/Supervising Animator:
"Armadillo" - Nicolas Marlet
Character Designers - Carlos Grangel
and Tony Siruno
Additional Storyboard Artist/Supervising
Animator: "Chief" - Frans Vischer
Costume Designer - Kelly Kimball
Story Supervisors - Ronnie Del Carmen
and Jeff Snow
Layout Supervisor - Lorenzo Martinez
Background Supervisor - Kevin Turcotte
Background Stylist - Scott Wills
Animation Department Manager - Steve Pegram
Digital Color Production Manager - Matthew Teevan
Scene Planning Supervisors - James C.J.
Williams and David Morehead
Animation Supervisor/Supervising Animator:
"Altivo" and "Cortéz" - Kristof Serrand
Senior Supervising Animator: "Tulio" -
James Baxter
Senior Supervising Animator: "Miguel" -
Darlie Brewster
Supervising Animator: "Tulio" - William Salazar
Supervising Animators: "Miguel" -
Serguei Kouchnerov and Bob Scott
Supervising Animator: "Chel" - Rodolphe Guenoden
Supervising Animator: "Tzekel-Kan" - Kathy Zielinski
Supervising Animator: "Jaguar" - Sylvain Deboissy
Supervising Animator: "Sailors" and
"Ball Players" - Patrick Mate
Animator: "Miguel"/Supervising Animator:
"Miscellaneous" - Erik C. Schmidt
Sequence Leads: "Celebration" Sequence -
Lynette Charters and Jamie Lloyd
Sequence Lead: "Jaguar Hunt" Sequence -
Ed Coffey and Sean McLaughlin
Sequence Lead: "Crashing the Gate" Sequence -
Doug Ikeler
Sequence Supervisor: Stardust Pictures -
Robert Stevenhagen
Digital Supervisor - Dan Philips
3D Effects Supervisor - Bud Myrick
Computer Graphics Supervisor: "Creation"
Sequence - Craig Ring
Songs - Elton John
Lyrics - Tim Rice
Supervising Editors - John Carnochan
and Dan Molina
Film Editor - Vicki Hiatt
Additional Editors - Lynne Southerland
and Jeffrey C. Patch
Sound Design and Supervision - Greg King
Re-Recording Mixers - Andy Nelson
and Anna Behlmer
Music - Hans Zimmer and John Powell
Composers: Additional Music/Technical
Technical Music Advisors - Klaus Badelt,
Justin Burnett, James McKee Smith and
Geoff Zanelli
Score Recordist and Mixer - Alan Meyerson


Review
The full-length animated movie, THE ROAD TO EL DORADO, came out in the year 2000 when I was a kid, and I enjoyed re-watching it all the time and had so much fondness for its two main characters. The story is partial historical revisionism. According to the producers, the comical duo was supposed to be the humorous sidekicks and went to steal the spotlight (like Timon and Pumbaa from Disney's The Lion King). That's how the animation team wanted to make something different by changing these two characters to be the main heroes. The film marries classical and CGI animation into one mixture and includes terrific background songs from the unforgettable pop star Elton John.

While I did enjoy the soundtrack in this feature, there is no comparison to The Lion King, as these songs weren't as memorable (apart from the number "It's Tough To Be a God"). More praise is for the renowned actors Kevin Kline and Kenneth Branagh for the non-stop vocalisation of Tulio and Miguel and Edward James Olmos as Chief Tannabak.

Bursting out loud with joyful laughter, but nearly shining as the best effort from the animation studio of DreamWorks. EL DORADO is still entertaining. Unfortunately, it could not rule the seven seas of the box office aside from the quality and would have done better if made by Disney, not DreamWorks.

Star rating: (4/5) Good Movie

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