You Show This To KIDS?! **THE ROAD TO EL DORADO** First Time Watching (Movie Reaction & Commentary)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2024
- The Road To El Dorado Movie Reaction and Commentary
today we're watching The Road To El Dorado for the first time!
this is the h*rniest kids movie and I'm not mad about it...
hope you'll enjoy this reaction to The Road To El Dorado!
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There's was a planned 'sequel' for this movie in the form of a animated series, but because the movie didn't had good critics reviews the whole project was scraped, which is unfortuned, because this is probably one of my favorite childhood animated movies.
me too.
mine too
Who were the critics? Boo them
What?!?!?!? Maaaannnn THIS MOVIE WAS GODLY in terms of PLOT WRITING,VISUAL AESTHETICS & SOUNDTRACK…it’s one of the best IF not THEE BEST soundtrack out of all of DreamWorks 2D animated movies soundtrackes……..and it’s by ONE MAN….like seriously ONE BRILLIANT MUSICAL MAN……THEE ELTON JOHN!!!!…..
Well El Dorado was an actual myth that a city made of gold was somewhere in South America and actually countries searched for years to find it. The sport with the ball was an actual sport. The animal that used as a ball its an armadillo.
Actually, El Dorado was the popular name for a very rich king of sorts iirc, he paid a ransom so his people wouldn't be fucked over, which led the Spanish Conquistadors to think "if he's willing to give this much gold away he must have much more" and fucked his people over in search of his gold, so the search for the El Dorado the golden man and his city was embellished into the search for the golden city of El Dorado, which led to El Dorado: the golden city being a thing the Spanish believed was hidden in South America. The belief that there was a city of gold hidden just waiting to be pillaged certainly helped fuel the Spanish desire for conquest in the Americas, which led to a brutal genocide of every native people they stumbled into along the way in their useless quest to find the city they imagined into myth.
Cortez was a certified monster btw, man was a fucking psychopath beyond compare for the bullshit he pulled.
They knew exactly what they were doing with Chel in this movie, especially when we think about the cut content.
What was cut?
@@RQuinton79
Even more suggestive passages, among other things.
I don't remember what precisely though.
@@RQuinton79 , well consider that one of the deleted storyboards had Chel and Tulio having their “alone time”, but almost getting caught. Chel tries to cover herself up, only for Tulio to pop his head in between her thighs.....
The 2d animation in this movie is fantastic! And for its time, the 3D animation made in 2000 actually still holds up.
Tbh Chel deserved so much more story-wise. She was just a one sided reward for the main characters😭
Singer Elton John and lyricist Tim Rice. Reunited since 1994’s The Lion King for this movie! And composer Hans Zimmer being included is a bonus!
23:20 An armadillo :)
Altivo means like “proud of himself”.
* Curious fact: the Aztecs were called Mexica when they arrived in the land of prophecy (seeing an eagle on a cactus while eating a snake); that land today is Mexico City.
* Another curious fact: this film combines things from different prehispanic cultures.
I love this movie and it’s a hidden gem, but to this day one of my favorite facts is that Chel originally looked a lot different than the one in the movie. They had to change her because she was deemed “too sexy” for the movie. So to sum up the Chel we see in the movie is the toned down less sexy version. So what the hell did the original look like?
My biggest issue with this film is that I don't feel like the characters and their motivations are explored fully: how Miguel and Tulio developed different life perspectives, why Chel wants to leave, and why Tzekhal-Khan's beliefs are more violent than literally everyone else in El Dorado
Apparently a lot was cut from the movie's original script, because the studio wanted this movie to be more "family friendly". Which is ridiculous considering how many innuendos are being shown.
My biggest problem is that the movie was made by ignorant people, those "violent" things that the spiritual leader were saying were actual things that were important for mesoamerican cultures and highly respected. Being a offer to the gods was something that was like the highest honor of all times, not something bad, and the thing that the two "European" guys went there and were "good people" is just sickening based in the history.
@@a_g8095 Yeah, it was obviously made from a modern POV; obviously we'd condemn such things now, but the fact that it's Europeans who save the day is kinda frustrating (which I think were based on the theory that Mesoamericans thought Cortez was one of their gods and thus submitted to him).
@@a_g8095there's no fucking way you're actually justifying human sacrifice, bro
@@frenchynoob Pretty sure he is not.
And regarding those beliefs you should consider this, just like how most christians genuinely believe that there is an actual hell that they have to be saved from, these people genuinely believed that the whole world is a giant living being with a hunger for flesh. So the purpose of the sacrifices was to ensure that the ground doesn't suddenly consume everyone.
Barbaric for sure but that's what happens when religion goes unchecked.
I love The Road to El Dorado! It’s so great and also pretty hilarious, not to mention the songs are catchy! This is also another one of those movies where I would watch countless times as a kid because of how good it is. I was shocked to hear that this was a box office bomb at the time this came out, but with these first time reactions, I’m very happy that this underrated gem is getting the love it deserves!
Yes, it sucks that most Non Disney animated movies tend to fly under the radar. Because alot of the animated movies that aren’t by Disney are actually better than the Disney movies
I feel like the movie is not that known or liked is because is cultural disrespectful and ignorant. Uses a lot of things from pre Hispanic cultures and myths and change their context and creates a new one were the "European guys" are heroes...
@@a_g8095 well as I said, most animated movies that are Not by Disney tend to fly under the radar and this wasn’t a Disney movie, so that’s pretty much the primary reason
Yes, Dreamworks animated movies aren’t exactly “kids movies” per se
Kids movies is a dumb phrase that needs to die. DreamWorks and Disney don't make "kids movies" they make family friendly movies. Meaning anyone can watch it at any age. A "KIds movie" would he something like Paw Patrol or Dora
@@purpleclaws202 And even those would need to have appeal to adults, otherwise they're not very good. Good children's programming is able to insert references and jokes for adults that fly under a kid's radar, but helps keep the adult who's being roped into watching it at least mildly entertained themselves.
@@purpleclaws202 “underrated” is a dumb word that needs to die
A big fan theory is that the volcano and then miguel seemingly flying at the end
was due to the fact the real gods were looking down on them and looking out for Miguel and Tulio for helping their people.
I think the armadillo is actually a God. It always seems to be around when things happen.
How to describe this movie?
“On the one hand: GOLD. On the other hand:
PAINFUL AGONIZING FAILURE.”
I really liked this movie growing up but as kid I never realised how dirty and adult themed it was that is until I became adult myself I was like man I totally missed some things. But you know It’s still one of those feel good movies and an underrated gem and I still appreciate the animation 😁so I hope you like it Sophie and can’t wait for the next movies you do 😊😉👍👍
Miguel has to be my favorite out of the two. El dorado translates to “The Golden”
for what message this movie was conveying, how about a "lesser of two evils" kind of message, like "lying is ok if it's saving lives" or "murder is worse than cheating"
Let's begin with saying that the movie is highly ignorant and disrespectful towards the cultures that they use.
4:40 your 🎲 are loaded! fun fact: it was voiced by Tobin Bell who did John Kramer from Saw.
I love this movie a lot. Dreamwork's is mostly known for it's 3D films like Shrek, Kung Fu Panda, How to Train Your Dragon and so on but their 2D era had plenty of absolute bangers IMO.
Also, something I find kind of funny about the myth of El Dorado that this movie is based on is that everyone refers to El Dorado as "the City of Gold" but the direct translation of the city's name is just "the Gold." I don't know, I just find it funny how on the nose that is lol
El Dorado actually translates to "the golden (presumably one)" and it is believed that the name came from a rich leader of a group of native people who adorned himself with gold (thus being known as "the golden"), the Spanish conquistadors just blew up the myth of the golden man into the myth of a golden city and then when they couldn't find it into the "Hidden city of gold", which they painted about half a continent red with native blood in their search for. It became a real myth that some people believed was still hidden away in the jungle up to some time back, and given that we still find ruins of lost civilizations in the Amazon to this day, probably still a few people believe it to actually exist hidden in the jungle.
I think this movie is like a mix of Emperor’s New Groove and Brother Bear because the animation for this movie kinda reminds me of those 2 movies.
The songs and the music of this movie is made of hans zimmer, elton john and tim rice from the lion king!!!
I used to watch this film since i was like 5 or 6. The message i got from this is that chell is to die for. Guided my dating preferences for life. Lol.
Watching this movie at 6 years old altered my brain chemistry 😭
The animal side character that doubles for a socker ball is an amadillo.
Some say the armadillo (ball animal you were confused about) is the real god.
I love how chel is normally shaped ❤❤❤ (her and nani from lilo and stitch)
This is my favorite movie of all time. I know every line. The fact is was never about the gold but the adventure is something you pick up in later. My theory is Chibalboa the god they were throwing gold to granted them safe passage, as the boat tips over, dropping it all into the water. That is why they escape, and a subtle way to show it was about the friendship. There should of been a sequel. The people of Eldarado wern't stupid either. Cheif Talbot, and Chel know what they are trying to do, and using Tulio, and Migel to their own ends.
The Movie takes homage from The Bob Hope, and Bing Crosby movies from the 40s and 50s. Famous for their 4rth wall breaks, and insane ass cons, with a much smarter female lead played by Dorothy Lamour.
In reality Eldarado was as mythical, and lied about to the point it might as well be a giant rock.
One more thing the criticism of Miguel, and Tulio, being evil, they are gamblers, this is like their day Las Vegas. More living the lifestyle, and less taking the people over. Plus in one way they were all poor, and either enslaved, or about to be. Miguel and Tulio were to be sent to. Cuba as slaves for the rest of their lives, and Chel was going to be arrested. They helped each other out. We could go deeper, but yeah they used their skills and friendship together to get out of circumstances leaving riding into the sunset, with let me rephrase NO GOLD!!!!
there is a popular theory that the armadillo is the god watching over them as they go on their adventure.
Yeah, I found it a bit weird to criticize Miguel and Tulio as evil for being willing to pretend to be gods and to try and steal the people's gold when they were worried about being killed, the people clearly don't overly care about the gold and their gods would feast on human sacrifices. Specially weird to complain about them impersonating gods and then in the very next sentence complain about how barbaric the gods are too.
"Altivo" means "haughty" in Spanish. Quite fitting.
I've been waiting for you to watch thisss, thank youuu
grew up watching it and love it
Altivo means proud, it is a nice name indeed
I buy into the fan theory that the armadillo is actually a God.
This was a great movie. I got it on dvd
The ost in Spanish ver. its marvelous 🤗🤗🤗
to this day is still my favorite childhood movie!
28:10 He was not a failure. That was his goal. The Aztec Empire are the natives and he wanted to kill them and take over their land.
Maybe she meant, failure of a human being.
3:56 HONEY YOU'VE GOT A BIG STORM COMING
I feel like Dreamworks was made for older kids or unhinged ones that didnt completely click with Disney 😅
This film is very much an homage to the old Bob Hope/Bing Crosby "Road" movies. Also, it's not so much a children's film as a family movie.
This is good movie nostalgia
Tulio and Miguel were actually originally supposed to be a couple but they scrapped it, thinking people weren't ready for that in a kid's film. 😅
people would loose their minds if they know that at this point lol, looking at how they think disney is the only woke animation company of this years, while some people from dreamworks tought about a couple of the same gender in a movie back then
Their dice may be loaded, but they still won the roll for the map fair and square. So I'd say that the reasonable resolution would be for them to return all the gold they won, but get to keep the map.
I appreciate that halfway through the movie you have the revelation that the conmen protagonists are not actually noble and heroic ;).
If I had a dollar for every time I've seen TH-cam titles for this movie mention how non-kid friendly it is- 😂
This is definitely one of Dreamwork's underrated gems. They did such good 2D work!
I haven’t seen the whole thing, I’ve only seen a few scenes of this movie. So I’ve been looking forward to this reaction!
"""My girl""" Looks kinda like and reminds me of 1990s' Blossom.
Are sure abut this? Because Brother Bear came out in theater in 2003 and Road to El Dorado came out in 2000.
I see Sophie really liked Chel's evening dress which she would also like to wear at home.
Back in the 70s (and even sooner) some scenes in this movie would be plain unthinkable for a children's movie, but we are not in the 70s or sooner anymore, so we must get accustomed to the fact that some morals about our society have changed and evolved (much as some disapprove of it- there have always been sceptic people, it's part of the game, something just natural), like they have always had, so in a way this should be not so serious.
Besides, does anybody remember other animated movies like "Felidae" or "Nimh: the secret of Mrs. Brisby"? Well, those movies were gloomy and gory for real (even for some adults), way gorier than this, and still I believe that some children watched them (which must have been a traumatic experience for them, I guess).
So, in conclusion, yes, maybe some scenes might be "spicy", but not that a big deal after all in spite of the fact that it is supposed to be a children's movie.
This movie gets even better with the brazilian dub
Can you react to Matilda the musical
Fam I showed this to my daughter … on my channel. Not knowing a thing about it upfront😭 GGs lol
Yo bad decision 😂
22:21 It's an Armadillo.
Do Schindler’s list
The movie
Schindler‘s list
Please I’m such a big fan of your TH-cam channel
Zzz the moral police. Kids know more than you think. And when I watched this growing up, it didn’t even cross my mind.
The animal is a armadillo
The animal on the game is Armadillo
I loved this movie as a kid!
Quick question, Why didn't you post a video last Saturday?
Thanks for the video Sophie! :)
the greek god kronos ate people including his kids. the ball was an armadillo
Yayyy, The Road to El Dorado!!! Thank you for the reaction!
Sigh, I don't know what TH-cam was like before Sophie and I don't want remember 💯 #proudSOPHIELENTSaddict 👍🏿♥️♥️
DreamWorks Animation may have had a slew of box office hits like Shrek, Kung Fu Panda, and How to Train Your Dragon. However, their early 2D films before 3D became their main focus is still worth looking back on!
After the success of The Prince of Egypt, they thought that kind of medium could work with El Dorado. Sadly, it was a box office disappointment. But the story itself of two longtime rogues going on a journey for the fabled lost city of gold still makes for a great adventure!
Unfortunately, most Non Disney animated movies are “disappointments” per se.
🥸👍 No, there wasn't an official sequel to this...However! 😏Three years later, Dreamworks put out another animated feature, "Sinbad And The 7 Seas" which was extremely similar to this in many ways. It features the same style of animation, and the same bawdy sense of humor. I think you'd enjoy it. 😉 Incidentally, I have a theory as to why you think you might have seen an advertisement for this on a "Brother Bear" VHS. 🤔 It could just be your memory not being precise. I believe you once mentioned that back then your family also had "Over The Hedge" on either VHS or DVD. Perhaps THAT'S where you saw the ad for this. Of course, that's just speculation on my part.
Hello there hey there hey 😊
This is one of my favorite animated movies of all time, behind 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit?' 👍🏻
Love the movie a lot! So many rewatches as a kid. Wore out the vhs
So, it was rude to cancel my comment...and I understand...but still, I just said:
"Tell me you're from Ammmerica, whithout saying it...Because you know nothing about your own continent."
And you don't. You don't even know Cortez or the mith of Eldorado...
And it's not against you, I just wanted to make a point.
Ohhhhhhhh
You seem happy in this vid :) Two recommendations for you sophie . 1 'Your name.' is a animated masterpiece everyone needs to watch in their life . I'd like to see you guess the plot of that lol. And 2 'Cats don't Dance' is an animated musical it's basically Sing before Sing and it's a hidden gem .
For another horny kids movie, and just amazing in general, you need to react to The Last Unicorn.
The music is an earworm. Give it a couple days, you'll be belting out "on the TRAILLLLLL WE BLAAAAAAZE 🎶" in the shower in no time.
I love how every time the priest mentions sacrifice the entire city just groans like "not this again my gosh"😂
Awh, this was my childhood along with Brother Bears🫶🏽🥹
Hooray🎉
0:54 if I remember correctly disney didn't make the VHS copies of the movies a separate VHS company made and distributed them(with disney's permission obviously) and I believe the also made and distributed for dreamworks as well
It's great to see you discovering movies!
If you're looking for new films to put on your list of ideas, I suggest you Help I'm a fish, an animated movie that marked an entire generation, or Dragon Hunters, of which you'd be probably by the way the first person to make a reaction video.
There are also the Naked Guns movies that you would appreciate for their particular humor.
Wish you the best!
Do you think you could react to Avatar/Avatar 2 if you haven’t seen them?
I was more of a Disney kid. So I didn't watch this movie until I was closer to my teenage years. But I still enjoyed it because of the great chemistry of the two leads and it being more of a buddy-adventure movie than romance. Not to complex and a good fun time movie ^-^
yes
I do enjoy a good Phil Collin song in the intro and my favorite song it’s great to be a god
Sorry the song is tough to be a god
23:21 That animal is an armadillo.
I love the music. I know it's not at the level of some disney classics or the prince of egipt, but the music for me is just behind the top classics.
The "problem" with the movie is probably Chel. She adds too much... adult stuff to the mix. My little cousin, who was a kid when he watched this movie, told me not so long ago that when he watched it for the first time, before puberty, he liked Chel, she made him feel "happy" but he didn't know why.
It didn't cause problems to the kids but I supposed it made parents uncomfortable.
Um dos meus filmes favoritos que nao tiveram o sucesso que mereciam junto com planeta do tesouro. Adoraria ver uma serie ou sequencia desse filme ( poderia usar outra lenda espanhola como a fonte da juventude ) mas infelizmente nunca vamos poder ver . E tambem por apresentar uma das crushs de desenho que todo mundo tinha quando mas jovem lol
Sophie is so beautiful every time.
I had such a crush on miguel when i was a kid
You had a crush on an animated character?
@@nsasupporter7557 Are you a robot?
@@tjarkschweizer uh… no?? 🥴🥴 do you have brains?
@@tjarkschweizer uh… no?? 🥴
Do you have a brain
I swear this movie is like a kid friendly version of Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.
A man finds himself in a strange land, lies about having supernatural powers by the luck of a convenient natural event, gain the approval of the king while being at odds with the religious leader, develop a relationship with a local woman, win single-handedly at a spectator sport with his “powers,” and the final confrontation with the religious leader reveals that magic is real.
Mark Twain’s book is however darker as he doesn’t shy away from the horrors of the feudal system and slavery, how stupid the nobility were, and how controlling the church was.
Well that or Rudyard Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King
You have to remember that just because something is animated doesn’t mean it’s for kids. I wish that idea had not come around.
If this video ends without you commenting on how Tulio and Miguel are one of the hottest male characters in cartoons, I'll be shocked.
29:15 Cheating is okay, as long as it benefits you
Chel is hot 😍
I miss the 2D animation. Disney and DreamWorks were👌🏼(you should also watch Sinbad from DreamWorks; it's wonderful and a bit horny too 😂). When I was a kid I looked forward to it b/c it had a bit of Spain and I'm from Spain ,and it was worth it. And when you say the movie is about scammers that was basically Spain in those times 😂😂 some of of Spanish most famous books are about picaresque and scams from the 16th century.
Btw, the name of the horse, Altivo, is an adjective in Spain which could be translated to fiery or close to arrogant
Watch The Land Before Time
Yes! Absolute classic!
Land Before Time is definitely one of the best Non Disney animated movies
Dude it's one of my favorite anime movies when I was a kid because I love dinosaurs
@@brandonbolender7383 Land Before Times wasn’t anime
This is the Disney movie that romanticizes the looting of gold that Spain did to Latin America.
I hate this movie soooo much because it's just disrespectful towards the cultures. It's ignorant and stupid. Its changes the context and the belief of the cultures that they use to create a new one were the european guys are not bad because they are not "wild" but they can steal, lie, and other things and still be the heroes....
Sickening the European mind of the people behind this movie
Waaaaaay too much talking. Stopped watching about 10 minutes in
The. Brother Bear. Thing. Is. Because. It. Makes. The. Company. That. Put. The. Promotion. In. The. Move. More. Many. It’s. Called. Capitalism. 🛠️🇺🇸