The Road to El Dorado DVD 2000 Der Weg Nach Eldorado / Directed by Don Paul, Eric "Bibo" Bergeron / Starring: Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh, Rosie Perez, Armand Assante

UPC 0678149092493

MADE IN EU

REGION 2 PAL DVD

Audio:  English 5.1, German 5.1, Dutch 5.1

Subtitles: English HOH, Dutch

Runtime: 89 minutes

English Summary:

The Road to El Dorado is a 2000 American animated adventure-musical comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and released by DreamWorks Pictures. It was directed by Eric "Bibo" Bergeron and Don Paul; Will Finn and David Silverman directed additional sequences. The film stars Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh, Rosie Perez, Armand Assante, and Edward James Olmos. The soundtrack features songs by Elton John and Tim Rice, as well as composers Hans Zimmer and John Powell. The plot is loosely based on The Man Who Would Be King, a book by Rudyard Kipling.

In 1519 Spain, two con artists, Miguel and Tulio, win a map to the legendary City of Gold, El Dorado, in a rigged dice gamble (though they ironically win the map fairly). After their con is exposed, the two evade the guards and hide inside barrels, which are then loaded into one of the ships to be led by conquistador Hernán Cortés for the New World. During the voyage, they are caught as stowaways and imprisoned, but break free and take a rowboat with the help of Cortés' horse, Altivo.

Their boat reaches land, where Miguel begins to recognize landmarks from the map, leading them to a totem marker near a waterfall that Tulio believes is a dead end. As they prepare to leave, they encounter a native woman, Chel, being chased by guards. When the guards see Tulio and Miguel riding Altivo as depicted on the totem, they escort them and Chel to a secret entrance behind the falls, into El Dorado. They are brought to the city's elders, kindhearted Chief Tannabok and wicked high priest Tzekel-Kan. The pair are mistaken for gods and are given luxurious quarters, along with the charge of Chel. She discovers that the two are conning the people but promises to remain quiet if they take her with them when they leave the city. The two are showered with gifts of gold from Tannabok but disapprove of Tzekel-Kan attempting to sacrifice a civilian as the gods' ritual.

German Summary:

 Der Weg nach El Dorado ist ein Zeichentrickfilm der Produzenten Bonne Radford und Brooke Breton aus dem Jahr 2000.

Die beiden spanischen Gauner Miguel und Tulio gewinnen bei einem Würfelspiel durch Schummeln eine Karte, die den Weg nach Eldorado, der Stadt aus Gold, zeigt. Auf der Flucht vor den Verlierern landen sie versehentlich als blinde Passagiere auf einem Schiff des skrupellosen Eroberers Hernán Cortés, wo sie entdeckt und eingesperrt werden. Zusammen mit dem Pferd Altivo gelingt ihnen die Flucht in einem Rettungsboot. Nachdem sie mehr durch Glück als Verstand die Neue Welt erreichen, folgen sie dem Weg, der auf der Karte eingezeichnet ist und gelangen in die goldene Stadt, wo sie als Götter empfangen werden. Der gemütliche Häuptling und der versessene Hohepriester Tzekel-Kan versuchen beide, die Gunst auf sich zu ziehen. Dazu will letzterer ihnen immer wieder Menschenopfer darbringen, was sie ihm schließlich verbieten. Die Einheimische Chel, in die Tulio sich verliebt, hilft ihm und Miguel, die Rolle der Götter überzeugend zu spielen, allerdings führt sie auch schnell ein Zerwürfnis zwischen den beiden Freunden herbei.

Voice cast

• Kevin Kline as Tulio, one of the con artists who pretend to be gods so they can get gold. He is the strategic planner, often becoming anxious and overthinking things.
• Kenneth Branagh as Miguel, one of the con artists who pretend to be gods so they can get gold. He is more relaxed and easygoing than his con-partner Tulio.
• Rosie Perez as Chel, a beautiful native woman from El Dorado who discovers Tulio and Miguel's con and decides to play along in an effort to get out from El Dorado.
• Armand Assante as Tzekel-Kan, the fanatically vicious high priest who has a religious fixation for human sacrifices. He initially believed Tulio and Miguel are gods until he discovered the truth.
• Edward James Olmos as Chief Tannabok, the skeptical, yet kind chief of El Dorado who questions that Tulio and Miguel are gods, though he allows them stay out of kindness and hospitality, and because of the kindness Miguel and Tulio show to his people.
• Jim Cummings as Hernán Cortés, the merciless and ambitious conquistador leader of the expedition to find the empires of the New World.Frank Welker as Altivo, Cortés' horse who befriends Tulio and Miguel. And Bull.
  • Cummings also voices the cook on Cortés's ship, a warrior who gets stepped on by Tzekel-Kan's stone jaguar, and the native who warns Chief Tannabok about Cortés.
• Tobin Bell as Zaragoza, a sailor on the voyage to the New World of El Dorado and the original owner of the map, which he loses to Tulio and Miguel after a game of dice.
• Elton John as The Singing Narrator.
• Anne Lockhart as Girl in Barcelona