The Road to El Dorado | Rotten Tomatoes (2024)

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Why did Road to El Dorado get bad reviews? ›

Despite the success of its creators, The Road to El Dorado was widely panned upon release, with most reviewers accusing the movie's story of being too derivative and the animation style of being too closely modeled on the then-recent success of Disney's renaissance.

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The film is historically inaccurate, using a White savior narrative to follow two likable White men who free the people of El Dorado from a maniacal Indigenous priest, and later protect them from colonization by Cortes, the real-life Spanish conquistador responsible for wiping out large portions of the Indigenous ...

Based on its total gross, The Road to El Dorado was a box-office bomb, unable to recoup its $95 million budget.

This is also why the Chief explicitly states he knows Miguel and Tulio aren't gods (on the boat when he says "to err is human") but still offers them a boat, gold, or the opportunity to stay in El Dorado to live as gods. He will go along with the game to appease the people and not disrupt the highly religious culture.

The longest film ever made, according to Guinness World Records, is "The Cure for Insomnia" (1987), directed by John Henry Timmis IV.

Citizen Kane (1941), starring and directed by Orson Welles, has topped several international polls, including five consecutive decades at number 1 in the British Film Institute's Sight and Sound decennial poll of critics. Some surveys focus on all films, while others focus on a particular genre or country.

This film is rated PG, but it has more sensuality than most animated films. Some of the content such as an implied sexual situation played for laughs is inappropriate for small children. This may be an attempt to appeal to the adult audience. As if there wasn't enough sensuality in movies, now we get it from cartoons!

In the end, El Dorado, the city of untold riches, never existed. El Dorado, the man, did exist. His homeland near Lake Guatavitá was found, but it did not contain the mythical riches that explorers sought.

What culture is Road to El Dorado based on? ›

The indigenous people of El Dorado are an amalgamation of various different indigenous cultures, taking inspiration from the Maya, Inca, Aztec, and Olmec. They're dark-skinned, wear minimal and “primitive” clothing compared to Miguel and Tulio, and they worship their various gods at temples.

The average viewer in the U.K. just found Eldorado slightly grating. The production for which the BBC created a fake village in Spain that's still there today cost too much the viewership figures it got so it was cancelled. What was the very first soap opera ever?

The musical numbers performed in this feature are not memorable nor very involving. But the film as a whole contains a lot of energy and wit. I did not the like the ending, which felt rushed and inconclusive. Still, "Road to El Dorado" is a movie with enough effective material to be worth watching, not purchasing.

"El Dorado" is a tightly directed, humorous, altogether successful Western, turned out almost effortlessly, it would seem, by three old pros: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum and director Howard Hawks.

The El Dorado campaign was removed due to colonialism and was replaced by the Pachacuti campaign. However, the El Dorado campaign can still be played as a custom campaign. Corpses of dead units no longer decompose and blood is no longer on corpses.