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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