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The Road to El Dorado (2000)

The Road to El Dorado poster
Directed by
Don Paul, Bibo Bergeron
Genre
comedy film, fantasy film, adventure film, buddy film, musical film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 30m
Rated
PG
Rating
7.3 of 10 from 4,152 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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Two con artists win a map to a legendary city of gold. They end up in the New World and are mistaken for gods by the people of El Dorado.

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What happens

The Road to El Dorado is a 2000 American animated musical comedy film directed by Eric "Bibo" Bergeron and Don Paul, from a screenplay by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, as well as additional sequences directed by Will Finn and David Silverman. Starring the voices of Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh, Rosie Perez, Armand Assante, and Edward James Olmos, the film follows a pair of con artists who, after winning the map to El Dorado in Spain, wash ashore in the New World; the map leads the two men to the city of El Dorado, where its inhabitants mistake them for gods. The soundtrack features an instrumental score composed by Hans Zimmer and John Powell, and songs written by Elton John and Tim Rice. John also periodically narrates the story in song throughout the film. Produced by DreamWorks Animation and released by DreamWorks Pictures, it was the third animated feature produced by the studio. The Road to El Dorado was theatrically released in the United States on March 31, 2000. It received mixed reviews from critics and was a box office flop, grossing $76 million worldwide on a production budget of approximately $95 million. Zimmer's work on the score, however, received praise and earned him the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Score alongside his work on Gladiator, another DreamWorks film, at the 6th Critics' Choice Awards. Despite its initial reception, reevaluation in later years has resulted in The Road to El Dorado becoming a cult classic. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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