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This is an archive article published on October 22, 2000

The Road to Eldorado

Take a pair of wise-cracking conmen and a hidden city made of gold, add a white steed and a crackling feminist with attitude, stir up a ro...

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Take a pair of wise-cracking conmen and a hidden city made of gold, add a white steed and a crackling feminist with attitude, stir up a roly-poly Mayan king against an evil shaman, slather it with kaliedoscopic pigment and a mile-long music score, and you’ve got Dreamwork Studios latest offering, The Road to Eldorado.

Spin back to Spain 1519, where charmers Tulio (Kevin Kline) and Miguel (Kenneth Branagh) are bagging coins galore while they gamble with loaded dice. Like Jack Dawson in Titanic they win a pretty pot and a map that speaks in pictograms of the legendary city of Eldorado. Then, oops happens – their gambling partners discover they are being duped and in the rollercoaster chase, the two unwittingly hide themselves aboard a ship that is about to sail in search of treasure in the able hands of vicious warrior Cortez (Jim Cummings).

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