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The Road to El Dorado

2000

Bibo Bergeron, Don Paul

Animation, Voice: Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh, Rosie Pérez ...

6.3

15,056

Animation. Adventure. Kids The story is about two swindlers who get their hands on a map to the fabled city of gold, El Dorado while pulling off some sort of scam. Their plan goes bad and the rogues end up lost at sea after a number of misfortunes. Oddly enough, they end up on the shores of El Dorado and are worshiped by the natives for their foreign appearance.

	Author	Review
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"Basically 'The Road to El Dorado' is little more than a sanitized blend of nonsense and adventure and just a teeny bit of romance, interspersed with the occasional pop song"	NEG
United States	Stephen Hunter The Washington Post	"[The animation] is compelling enough, but weirdly overcolored (...) The plot's ramshackle quality never leaves the film"	NEU
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"A strained and pallid concoction that won’t fire the collective imaginations of modern children"	NEG
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"This is not a landmark in the history of feature animation, but it's bright and has good energy (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Keith Phipps AV Club	"Polished into lusterlessness, it's so carefully calculated to be inoffensive that its ostensible subject, the meeting of European and indigenous American cultures, becomes irrelevant."	NEU
United Kingdom	Philip French The Guardian	"The opening scenes of 'The Road to El Dorado' are fairly amusing. But laughter is in increasingly short supply as the film proceeds"	NEU
United Kingdom	William Thomas Empire	"Nothing seems to fit. There are cute animals who disappear from scenes without explanation (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG

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