Road to El Dorado

Theatrical Release Date: 2000 03 31 (USA)

UPC: 667068654523

Studio: DreamWorks

MPAA Rating: PG   Contains:[Adult Situations]

Summary: Dreamworks SKG's second feature-length animated film blends comedy and drama in an unusual historical adventure. Two genial swindlers working as stable hands stow away with Cortez, the legendary Spanish conquistador, as he searches for El Dorado, the lost City of Gold. Luck smiles on the two con men, and they happen to find a settlement in Mexico that they believe is El Dorado; however, while the two exotic strangers are at first embraced by the Mayan people, they've also arrived just in time to be offered up as the next human sacrifice. The Road to El Dorado was directed by Don Paul, who helmed the first DreamWorks animated feature, The Prince of Egypt; Will Finn, a featured animator on Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin; Bibo Bergeron, who worked on Ferngully: The Last Rainforest; and David Silverman. It features new songs by Elton John and Tim Rice, and the voice cast includes Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh, Rosie Perez, Edward James Olmos, and Armand Assante. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Category: Children's/Family

Awards: Best Composer – Broadcast Film Critics Association

Features: A hidden treasure of interactive fun
Read-along adventures
Interactive PC game demo
Exclusive filmmaker's commentary
Special Elton John music video
Amazing behind-the-scenes featurette
Trailers
Production notes
Cast & crew bios

Road to El Dorado

Format: DVD

Release Date: 12/12/2000

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Theatre Wide-Screen

Audio: DTS Digital Theater Systems, DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1, DDS Dolby Digital Surround

Runtime: 89 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English

Subtitles: English

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Disc #1 -- The Road to El Dorado
1. El Dorado (Main Titles) [4:03]
2. Loaded Dice [3:19]
3. Stowaways [3:15]
4. Overboard [3:23]
5. Beached [3:17]
6. The Trail We Blaze [3:08]
7. Great Big Rock [3:29]
8. Entering El Dorado [1:07]
9. Stopping the Volcano [5:09]
10. Cheldorado [4:30]
11. It's Tough to Be a God [2:36]
12. A Proper Tribute [5:04]
13. Three Days [4:03]
14. Age of the Jaguar [1:46]
15. Without Question [2:17]
16. Tzekel-Kan's Advice [2:17]
17. Play Ball [4:55]
18. No Sacrifices [1:35]
19. Gods Don't Bleed [3:17]
20. Tulio and Chel - Deal? [2:37]
21. Jaguar Attacks [4:43]
22. Tzekel-Kan Emerges [1:31]
23. Friends Never Say Goodbye [3:09]
24. Cortes Approaches [2:16]
25. Got a Wave to Catch [2:47]
26. There's No El Dorado Here [1:25]
27. Follow That Trail [1:31]
28. Someday Out of the Blue (End Credits) [6:42]

Derek Armstrong

Daring to re-team after the disastrous Wild Wild West, this time with only their voices, Kevin Kline and Kenneth Branagh provide the lead vocal talent for another (south)western adventure, Dreamworks SKG's The Road to El Dorado. No one will confuse this with one of Disney's classics -- let's face it, the animation and the formula are the same -- but Elton John is on board with a few rousing songs, and for a minor flight of fancy released in March, it's not half bad. It's also working on levels that go deeper than the colorful and kiddie-friendly surface -- not only are the hapless adventurers cartoon homages to the Bob Hope-Bing Crosby series of "road" movies (Road to Zanzibar, The Road to Morocco, etc.), but they're characterized as ambiguously gay. It's these subtextual pleasures that elevate some animated films above the average kiddie fare. There are also a couple of clever sequences that rely on the "split-second timing" that only animation can provide, bringing to life vignettes in which Miguel and Tulio get themselves in and out of trouble in unusual ways. But as Disney continued raising the bar in animation (the deep canvas of Tarzan, the computer-generated creatures of Dinosaur), a film like The Road to El Dorado no longer registered as more than a blip on the cartoon continuum, especially without a memorable story or characters to prop it up. While still attractive, it also failed to advance the slick visual style of its Dreamworks predecessor, The Prince of Egypt. ~ Derek Armstrong, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Elton John  Composer (Music Score) 
Brooke Breton  Producer 
Karey Kirkpatrick  Screenwriter 
Don Paul  Director 
Terry Rossio  Screenwriter 
Hans Zimmer  Composer (Music Score) 
Ted Elliott  Screenwriter 
Bonne Radford  Producer 
John Powell  Composer (Music Score) 
Philip Lazebnik  Screenwriter 
Jeffrey Katzenberg  Executive Producer 
Bibo Bergeron  Director 
Bill Damaschke  Executive Producer 
Delna Bhesania  Producer 
Marylata E. Jacob  Composer (Music Score) 
Kevin Kline  Actor 
Kenneth Branagh  Actor 
Rosie Perez  Actor 
Armand Assante  Actor 
Edward James Olmos  Actor 
Jim Cummings  Actor 
Frank Welker  Actor 
Tobin Bell  Actor 
Duncan Majoribanks  Actor 
Elijah Chiang  Actor 
Cyrus Shaki-Khan  Actor 
Elton John  Actor 

Country: USA