The way to El Dorado

Movie
German title	The way to El Dorado
Original title	The Road to El Dorado
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	2000
length	90 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
Rod
Director	Don Paul , Eric "Bibo" Bergeron
script	Ted Elliott , Terry Rossio
production	Bonne Radford , Brooke Breton
music	John Powell , Hans Zimmer (soundtrack) Elton John , Tim Rice (songs)
cut	Vicki Hiatt
synchronization

The Road to El Dorado is a cartoon by producers Bonne Radford and Brooke Breton from 2000. The film had a budget of $ 95 million, but only grossed $ 76.4 million worldwide, making it a flop for the Dreamworks studio .

The film includes songs by Sir Elton John and Tim Rice .

action

The two Spanish crooks Miguel and Tulio win a card by cheating in a game of dice that shows the way to Eldorado , the city of gold. On the run from the losers, they accidentally land up as stowaways on a ship of the unscrupulous conqueror Hernán Cortés , where they are discovered and imprisoned. Together with the horse Altivo, they manage to escape in a lifeboat. After reaching the New World through more luck than understanding , they follow the path that is marked on the map and arrive at the golden city, where they are received as gods. The cozy chief and the obsessed high priest Tzekel-Kan are both trying to win favor. For this purpose, the latter wants to offer them human sacrifices again and again , which they ultimately forbid him. The local Chel, with whom Tulio falls in love, helps him and Miguel to play the role of the gods convincingly, but she also quickly causes a falling out between the two friends. When Miguel injures himself slightly, the high priest realizes that the newcomers are not gods, since gods do not bleed according to his imagination. With the help of his magical abilities, he brings a huge stone statue to life and tries to kill the two Spaniards because they endanger his position of power. In the course of the fight, he fell into a raging underground stream, which carried him away and washed up again outside the city. Cortez and his men find him, and Tzekel-Kan, who sees the Conquistadores as the true, merciless, doom-bringing gods, promises to lead them to El Dorado. Miguel and Tulio help the residents to protect the city from the attackers by collapsing the only access, a tunnel. When Tzekel-Kan and Cortez's expedition reached the earlier entrance, they found it locked. The enraged conqueror leads his men on, convinced that he has fallen into a lie of the priest. Tulio, Miguel, Altivo and Chel, now also locked out, are on their way back to Spain.

Synchronization (voices)

The synchronization was done by Berliner Synchron GmbH Wenzel Lüdecke , Sven Hasper directed the dialogue and wrote the dubbing book . Leslie Mandoki was responsible for the musical direction of the synchro.

role	Original speaker	German speaker
Tulio	Kevin Kline	Arne Elsholtz
Miguel	Kenneth Branagh	Stefan Gossler
Chel	Rosie Perez	Anke Reitzenstein
Narrator	Elton John	Paul Stark
Tzekel Kan	Armand Assante	Lutz Riedel
Chief Tannabok	Edward James Olmos	Tom Deininger
Cortes	Jim Cummings	Klaus Sunshine

criticism

Lexicon of international film : Drawn adventure film that tries its hand at “adult” animation. Quite entertaining and pointedly told, it ultimately follows all too familiar patterns of action to which he is unable to add new aspects using the art of drawing.

The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Box Office Mojo
2. ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | The way to El Dorado. Retrieved December 26, 2017 . 
3. ↑ The way to El Dorado. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 22, 2017 .  

Web links

• The Road to El Dorado in theInternet Movie Database(English)
• The Road to El Dorado atRotten Tomatoes(English)
• The way to El Dorado in the online film database
• Official website