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02/09/06
The Road to El Dorado (2000)
46 %
Reviews Counted: 95 Fresh: 44 Rotten:51 Average Rating: 5.5/10
Consensus:
Pridictable story and thin characters made the movie flat.
Runtime: 89 mins
Synopsis: Two eccentric con artists, Tulio and Miguel, are shooting craps in the sun-squelched streets of 16th-century Spain when they win a sacred map charting the way to El Dorado, the lost City of Gold, and see it as their ticket both to adventure and an enormous fortune. With the map in hand, they stow... [More]
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Kevin Kline, Rosie Perez, Armand Assante, Edward James Olmos
Director: Will Finn, Don Paul, Bibo Bergeron
Screenwriter: Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio
Producer: Brooke Breton, Bonne Radford
Composer: John Powell, Hans Zimmer
Screenwriter: Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio
Producer: Brooke Breton, Bonne Radford
Composer: John Powell, Hans Zimmer
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Top Critic
As good as most recent post-Katzenberg Disney films, and certainly -- with its stylised characterisation and bursts of witty dialogue -- a great deal better than the Mouse's turgid mega-budget epic Dinosaur.
12/02/02
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12/10/01
It's a bright and enjoyable tale, well told and beautifully performed -- so good that, at times, you forget it's animated at all.
01/01/00
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Instead of improving on the Disney animation experience, El Dorado proves to be inferior in every way.
01/01/00
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04/09/05
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08/07/04
The less you know about history, the better your chances of enjoying this movie . . .
10/08/03
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05/28/03
The filmmakers want an epic feel to the film, but they provide neither context nor dimension to the people of El Dorado themselves.
12/08/02
A nice animated trip for kids, but hardly a required journey for grown-ups.
11/07/02
Gets by with a story that is good but not great -- not unlike the famous Road movies made 50 years ago by Bob Hope and Bing Crosby.
10/15/02
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08/09/02
In the few moments when the noise and the fast-paced story subside long enough for a good look at the scenery, the animation is impressive.
06/19/02
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