The defence The Sentimental Softie
“Sincerity is not manipulation.”
The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.
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The Road to El Dorado
Family · Adventure · Animation · 2000
Stowing away after a failed con, a pair of swindlers end up on El Dorado, the fabled "city of gold", where they quickly get in over their heads when they are mistaken as gods by the inhabitants.
Movie details
The Road to El Dorado
“They came for the gold. They stayed for the adventure.”
2000 Family · Adventure · Animation 1h 30m
Critical arithmetic
The consensus, allegedly.
Scores change. Arguments endure.
IMDb
6.9 / 10
118.2K votes
Rotten Tomatoes
49 %
Tomatometer
Metacritic
51 / 100
Metascore
TMDB
7.3 / 10
Community rating
External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.
Stowing away after a failed con, a pair of swindlers end up on El Dorado, the fabled "city of gold", where they quickly get in over their heads when they are mistaken as gods by the inhabitants.
CriticWise case file
What this film says about your taste.
Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.
The archetype split
Who fights over The Road to El Dorado?
For the defence
The Sentimental Softie
“You came to feel something, and you will.”
Read their case For the prosecution
The Cool Ironist
“Feeling things is a little embarrassing.”
Read their objectionThe split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.
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Names above the title
The people responsible.
Cast & crew
Directed by
Bibo Bergeron · Don Paul
Written by
Ted Elliott · Terry Rossio
Kenneth Branagh
Miguel (voice)
Kevin Kline
Tulio (voice)
Rosie Perez
Chel (voice)
Armand Assante
Tzekel-Kan (voice)
Edward James Olmos
Chief (voice)
Jim Cummings
Cortes (voice)
Frank Welker
Altivo (voice)
Court is in session
Put The Road to El Dorado on trial.
Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.
The prosecution The Cool Ironist
“The strings are showing.”
Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.