The Road to El Dorado
2000 animated musical comedy-adventure film by Bibo Bergeron and Don Paul / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Road to El Dorado is a 2000 American animated adventure comedy film[2] directed by Eric "Bibo" Bergeron and Don Paul (in their feature directorial debuts), 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 two 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.
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Narrated by | Elton John |
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Distributed by | DreamWorks Pictures |
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Running time | 89 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $95 million[1] |
Box office | $76.4 million[1] |
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, to mixed reviews from critics and performed poorly at the box office, grossing $76 million worldwide on a production budget of about $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.[3] Despite its initial reception, reevaluation in later years has resulted in The Road to El Dorado becoming a cult classic.[4][5]