Rated: PG
Released: 2000
Starring: Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh, Rosie Perez
Format Watched in: HBO GO
Lately it seems it's nearly impossible for a non computer animated movie to get any sort of play in theaters. We've become to expect our cartoons to look like Toy Story instead of Snow White, and when that happens it takes a lot of hard work to get people to appreciate traditionally animated movies. While in the past they could skate by on mediocrity and still be big in the box office during the transitional period from traditional to computers people would shy away from traditional films because they saw the future and wanted more. Dreamworks was still set that traditional animation could survive and kept releasing mediocre family films and people wouldn't care because hey Cartoons. The Road to El Dorado is one of their last mediocre films before they realized that in order for traditional animated films to make money they had to be special. Nothing against the people involved but the first mistake for me was casting Kevin Kline and Kenneth Branagh as two Spanish con men really didn't understand that English people and Spaniards have different accents, and let's not even get into the idea of Rosie Perez doing voice work. Still it's a moderately enjoyable film that will entertain children that don't care about regional dialects.
Rating: C
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