The sailor of legend is framed by the goddess Eris for the theft of the Book of Peace, and must travel to her realm at the end of the world to retrieve it and save the life of his childhood friend Prince Proteus.
Directors:
Patrick Gilmore,
Tim Johnson
Stars:
Brad Pitt,
Catherine Zeta-Jones,
Joseph Fiennes
A Disney animated version of "Treasure Island". The only difference is that the film is set in outer space with alien worlds and other galactic wonders.
Directors:
Ron Clements,
John Musker
Stars:
Joseph Gordon-Levitt,
Emma Thompson,
Martin Short
When a young Inuit hunter needlessly kills a bear, he is magically changed into a bear himself as punishment with a talkative cub being his only guide to changing back.
Directors:
Aaron Blaise,
Robert Walker
Stars:
Joaquin Phoenix,
Jeremy Suarez,
Rick Moranis
A wild stallion is captured by humans and slowly loses the will to resist training, yet, throughout his struggles for freedom, the stallion refuses to let go of the hope of one day returning home to his herd.
The last surviving child of the Russian Royal Family joins two con men to reunite with her grandmother, the Dowager Empress, while the undead Rasputin seeks her death.
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.Written by
Paolo Costabel <paolo@bluesky-vifx.com>
When Miguel and Tulio start into the jungle, neither of them are wearing shoes. During the montage they are both seen wearing shoes again. See more »
Quotes
[the natives are throwing the gold over the cliff]
Tulio:
Uh, Chel... what are they doing?
Chel:
[exasperated]
They're sending it to Xibalba! The spirit world!
Tulio:
Spirit... world...
Chel:
I'll take care of it.
[sidling up to the Chief]
Chel:
Uh, Chief? The gods have changed their minds about Xibalba. They wish to bask in the glory that has been shown them.
Chief:
STOP!
[the natives stop; a gold plate rolls toward the cliff and Tulio stops it with his foot]
Chief:
They wish to bask! Take the tribute to the gods' temple!
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Crazy Credits
Bibo the armadillo appears under the Directed By credit chasing two butterflies, catching one, and then eating it. See more »
Alternate Versions
The version shown on ABC television has two brief shots of Miguel and Tulio's bare backsides altered by digitally adding white underpants. See more »
Of course, i was missing it too, until about fifteen minutes in.
Okay -- the title is "THE ROAD TO El Dorado" Hands up, everyone with whom that rings a bell.
No?
Okay -- its stars are two fast-talking con men who get out of trouble by faking fights with each other,and who *almost* play pattycake at a point.
Still no bells ringing?
How about if i point out that, at one point, our heroes' images are briefly morphed into the faces of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby for about two frames?
Right.
This is a tribute to/animated version of those hilarious (if you're in the right frame of mind) "B" comedies starring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby (and Dorothy Lamour in a sarong -- does Chel look any more familiar, now?), all of which were entitled "The Road to..." somewhere or other.
Nothing in them was meant to be taken seriously, and very little in this film is.
I have to agree with a number of reviewers who say, with varying degrees of indignation, that this is not a kids' film.
Duh.
It wasn't meant to be. It was meant to ba a general-audience, PG-rated film.
WILL you people PLEASE get it through your heads that "animated" does not, necessarily, equal "kids' movie"?
Animation is just another film-making technique, to be used to make any kind of film the animator wants to make, and if you think that animation is automatically for kids, check out... oh, say... "Akira" or "Fantastic Planet" or "Heavy Metal".
"Road to El Dorado" is an excellent all-ages film, (with the caveat that is IS a PG-rated one, and that you ought to think about what you want your kids to watch) and anyone who sees anything bad or prurient in the scenes that everyone has been complaining about should take a close look at themselves...
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Of course, i was missing it too, until about fifteen minutes in.
Okay -- the title is "THE ROAD TO El Dorado" Hands up, everyone with whom that rings a bell.
No?
Okay -- its stars are two fast-talking con men who get out of trouble by faking fights with each other,and who *almost* play pattycake at a point.
Still no bells ringing?
How about if i point out that, at one point, our heroes' images are briefly morphed into the faces of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby for about two frames?
Right.
This is a tribute to/animated version of those hilarious (if you're in the right frame of mind) "B" comedies starring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby (and Dorothy Lamour in a sarong -- does Chel look any more familiar, now?), all of which were entitled "The Road to..." somewhere or other.
Nothing in them was meant to be taken seriously, and very little in this film is.
I have to agree with a number of reviewers who say, with varying degrees of indignation, that this is not a kids' film.
Duh.
It wasn't meant to be. It was meant to ba a general-audience, PG-rated film.
WILL you people PLEASE get it through your heads that "animated" does not, necessarily, equal "kids' movie"?
Animation is just another film-making technique, to be used to make any kind of film the animator wants to make, and if you think that animation is automatically for kids, check out... oh, say... "Akira" or "Fantastic Planet" or "Heavy Metal".
"Road to El Dorado" is an excellent all-ages film, (with the caveat that is IS a PG-rated one, and that you ought to think about what you want your kids to watch) and anyone who sees anything bad or prurient in the scenes that everyone has been complaining about should take a close look at themselves...