I love that Kenneth Branagh and Kevin Kline were right next to each other in the recording booth while recording their dialogue, so as to establish a close bond between their characters.
For a while there, Dreamworks did this a lot & that's why their more comedic 2000's movies have such good banter. The main casts of Shrek & Madagascar were also often in the same room when they recorded. The scene where Fiona belched & donkey commented that she was just as nasty as Shrek in the first film was actually a blooper from one of the shared voice booth sessions. Cameron Diaz accidentally let one slip & Eddie Murphy rolled with it in character lol.
They knew exactly what they were doing when they designed Chel and I can't thank them enough.😂 This is such a great film, one of DreamWorks' most underrated. And you gotta respect the amount of adult jokes they were able to slip in. It’s unfortunate we never had a sequel as planned, I would have loved another adventure with this trio.
@@SophiaPhannn Yes, and a series supposedly. DreamWorks expected this to do as well as if not better than the Prince of Egypt. But when it unreservedly flopped because people only cared about cgi films then, all extra material was scrapped. A shame really.
Chel is like kida if she was a femme Fatale and wasn't a granny in lingerie. They both dress similar and are natives except chel wears a crop top instead of a bra. Almost copies of each other.
The actual history behind the El Dorado myth is fascinating and morbidly hilarious. As you mentioned, people in South America at the time were not really using gold as currency - just as decoration and jewelry. As a result, while it was valued, it was not valued to _nearly the same extent_ that it was in Europe. Anyway, in the Muisca kingdom in what is now Colombia, there was a ritual whenever a new ruler took office - he would be covered in gold dust and bathe in Lake Guatavita, and the people gathered around would bring treasures and throw them into the lake as a sacrifice. The Spanish heard about this ritual and went "oh my word, if they're just throwing gold away like that, they must have so much of it that they don't know what to do with it all!" So by the time they actually conquered the Muisca, they weren't just looking for gold - they were essentially looking for _infinite_ gold, to the point that whatever they actually found was never going to be enough. So even though they had conquered the kingdom and deposed "the golden one" _(el dorado),_ they kept looking because...the motherlode has to be out there somewhere, right? Meanwhile, the Spanish were finding enormous amounts of platinum and throwing it away because they had no use for it
I always liked that the Chief seemed to figure out relatively fast that they weren't gods but played along because they were they kind, especially Miguel. They were the kind of "gods" the chief wanted for his people, rather than the human sacrifices, cleanse the city, and using terror sort of gods the high priest wanted. We can talk all day about different cultural moralities around blood letting and human sacrifices, but from my recollection blood and human offerings were from willing participants usually. In the movie it's pretty clear Tzekel-Kan is using unwilling sacrifices. I also liked that even the horse mouths "El Dorado" when they all see the city for the first time hah!
It's so cruel now that I look back on it, but when my little sister and I were young and the other one might get into trouble if we did something, we would quote to each other, "You will be flogged and after that, God willing, you will be flogged some more." It's a funny memory for both of us now, but man, we had a twisted sense of humor.
Please, this is nothing. According to an animator, there was a storyboard scene where Chel and Tulio are having their “alone time”, but almost get caught. Chel tries to cover herself up, only for Tulio to pop his head in between her thighs….
My theory about this movie is that the real gods were watching the whole thing happen and decided to roll with it and help by making the volcano erupt to make Tulio and Miguel being gods believable 😂
For a while people were actually saying that the armadillo was originally a god in the movie but they cut it out. Turns out it was a theory that went through a telephone game 😆 But it's a popular-ish theory!
So there actually was a historical El Dorado. Basically the South American city was built on/near a big gold deposit, and the natives found it. Gold is extremely malleable and doesn’t tarnish, so they plastered it on everything and tossed offerings into the big lake the city was built by. The Conquistadors found it, and basically decided that a lake filled with gold and gold plated decorated buildings wasn’t legendary enough to be the golden city and basically kept searching for El Dorado.
We don't get films like this or Treasure Planet often anymore because they were so expensive in every way imaginable. Wish, Across the Spiderverse, and Nimona have gotten close to the vibe, but nothing has felt as epic and expansive and these older animations imo. Prince of Egypt is iconic. I'm gonna try to push people to do better, but the state of mainstream modern animation is pretty sad generally speaking.
The way I still listen to the soundtrack to this day. It’s already gone platinum in my car lol. Elton John can seriously do no wrong when it comes to composing movie soundtracks.
My personal headcannon is that Chel wanted to leave, cause she was the local con artist (much like tulio and miguel) and felt she needed a fresh start with fresh suckers to con at :PPP
Funny you said the villain was like Frollo. Because as an animation geek, I can say they share the same animator: Kathy Zielinski. Look her up. She has quite an impressive resume.
i always thought the armadillo was the god in disguise, because Miguel saved him from the snake, so when the volcano was going off the armadillo was playing with the butterfly between their legs. So when Tulio yelled stop, the armadillo jumped onto the leg, and the volcano stopped. The armadillo is always with them nearby even in the ball match xD. also the gold is very heavy so it would drag maybe for a little bit, but then just fall in the bottom when it stills xD
I love this movie. I also loved the fact that Chel and the Chief knew from the start that they weren’t gods, but played along in different ways. Also yeah: Chel. Just… Chel. She’s great. I love her.
12:28 Yeah, a good portion of this movie is based on a Rudyard Kipling book called The Man Who Would Be King. Two brits go to Afghanistan to build an empire for themselves and manage to convince the local villagers that they are gods. At the end of the story the villagers realize that they are only human after seeing one of them bleed and kill both of them for taking advantage of them. It was also adapted into a movie with Sean Connery and Michael Caine
I wish I could hear all the ad libbed pet names and flirtatious comments Branagh and Kline apparently recorded that they cut out. That's up there for me with all of Robin Williams's R-rated Genie outtakes as a grail.
Apparently Miguel & Tulio were suppose to be a gay couple but I heard they scrapped it. Since back then media wasn’t really open to lgbt like it is now these days
My favorite song is It's Tough to Be a God because (theatre kid forever) it's the only song any character sings!!!! Also it's real fun how it plays with the idea of the myth of El Dorado as in the conquistadores never found it (maybe making it a wandering isle or something like that would've been better, since in the end the conquistadors thought it was in the Chile-Argentinian Patagonia). And even though this movie buys off the Leyenda Negra, Cortés was one of the most merciless and cruel of the conquistadors.
Fun fact: The artists had to _tone down_ how hot they originally made Chel. The difference for her original design was that she wore a poncho. The issue? She was ONLY wearing a poncho (El Dorado fans were f*cking robbed😭)
Chel definitely made a lot of little boys begin feeling certain things early on. She was a powerful woman indeed. The rule34 community went crazy with her for a good reason!
Today I learned that Sophia is RUTHLESS when it comes to survival. Remind me never to let my horses around you! 😅 This movie was one of my absolute favorites as a kid. The animation was gorgeous, the comedy was hilarious, and yes it was one of the first movies that opened my eyes to romantic attraction. Watching this film was an *experience*, lol.
12:35 there’s a fan theory that the Armadillos we see in the movie are actually the real Gods incarnate. We see at least one every time a “miracle” happens.
I adore Road To El Dorado 🥰 Gorgeously animated, Sir Elton belts out some bangers, the best horse in animation, and I love the chemistry between Branagh and Kline. It got overshadowed by Prince of Egypt and then practically forgotten after Shrek ☹.
I am with you about the initial punishment Cortes handed out to Miguel and Tulio. I didn't process it as a kid and then it took a couple rewatches before I actually took in what he was explaining and I think part of it is because it cuts immediately to Miguel reacting positively to the Cuba part of that entire punishment. Speaking of Miguel, I think it was his voice actor that thought the two were a couple so he kept calling Tulio darling until the studio was like "stop. we don't. we don't want people to think that." And I seen theories/conspiracies about the last frame before they push each other off the platform (to dodge the giant stone jaguar) was them actually kissing edited down to look like what we got in the film.
Girl...Let me tell you a story. So it was Christmas like 6 years ago, all the cousins were together, everyones parents, and I hadn't seen the movie in forever so the movie choices while we were all there was Tarzan, or Road to Eldorado. I pushed Eldorado. Let me tell you, as a 20 year old sitting in the room with everyone during THAT scene I was like, frozen
I also had this movie on VHS growing up. As an adult I have a copy on DVD. I will never stop loving this movie, it just awakens that childhood thrill for adventure in me
What's kinda funny is that I could've sworn you did this movie a while ago but I think I'm thinking of another movie reaction channel and/or I might be confusing this movie with when you did Sinbad or Prince of Egypt 😂 Don't ask me why. Also not gonna lie, I would 100% risk my life to save the horse 😭So I can't help but not fault them for saving the horse. Horses being my favorite animal next to dogs, I ain't letting horses die on my watch! 😂
@@SophiaPhannn I mean, true 😂 I just feel like the guilt and trauma that a horse died right in front of me would honestly be extremely hard to recover from 😭
Thank you! I never noticed the tally marks before. Since I doubt that a prisoner would be left with a sharp object capable of carving them, I would think that they would be from sailors on previous voyages.
23:00 I once heard a theory that the chief might have known from the beginning that they were not gods. 🤔 I like this theory because it gives new significance to when the chief looks back at the people after the volcano scene, and when he later tells them, “Big smile! Like you mean it!”
Hi! I just wanted to clear something out. During the game scene you said you didn’t get what the point would be in sacrificing the winning team. The truth is it is actually a mystery which was the team bound to be sacrificed, the winning or the losing one, but they were both formed with the best soldiers. It was believed that a sacrifice of the best of the best would keep the gods pleased (this is also why some of the most beautiful women were chosen to be sacrificed), so either way, they would be the most capable of men. Also, Cortes actually wasn’t well liked before he started conquering territories, bringing gold back to Europe and all. Oh, and the gold thing, yes, indigenous people from back then didn’t value gold as much as the Spaniards did, they preferred jade, turquoise, obsidian, feathers from rare birds, etc. Maybe Chel knew this because she had already encountered a ‘pale face’ (there are many registers of white people getting to the Americas and setting down within the indigenous communities). Anyway, thanks so much for the video!
Fun fact, Tzekel-Kan was animated by Kathy Zeilinski, the same lady who animated Hexxus, Frollo, Jafar (in his beggar disguise and snake form), and Ursula.
This movie is one of my faves from childhood. It was so nice to reminisce by watching this video. Also, Miguel, Tulio, & Chel definitely awakened something in me. OT3 forever.
This was one of my favorite movies growing up, and I still love it. The bad guy actually freaked me out as a kid. Hope you will consider doing Quest for Camelot one day. Another underrated gem.
I have a friend that looks exactly like Chel; like, same haircut, body shape and skintone, the perfect embodiment of her 😵...! I'm even convincing her to dress as Chel on the next Halloween, like, I'll even buy the cosplay for her 🤗😁...!
Yup, The Road to El Dorado is an interesting gem in DreamWorks Animation history. Say, for another old-school DreamWorks hand-drawn feature film, check out Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron from 2002. At the same time, check out the recent hand-drawn 2018 DreamWorks short Bird Karma.
1:45 not only was he based off a real person. One of his men’s journals survived and that line in his speech is basically a quote from it. this movie is honestly better researched than the vast majority of films
So if you're wanting a slightly more meta version of this, with maybe some more "eeeeeh" overtones, there's the "Road To" series which inspired this film. From the black and white days, like we're talking 40s. Hence the "eeeeh" I mentioned; this film being about two white guys pretending to be gods to steal the native's gold is kinda tame in comparison to the others, but the others have a more meta sense of humour and can be just as funny; just gotta look past the time period a bit. The middle one, which I personally didn't finish, "The Road to Utopia," is probably the least problematic, since it's set in the US and is about the gold rush. The others are more foreign in their locale... but not in their actors... or research. The order is: The Road to Singapore The Road to Zanzibar The Road to Morocco The Road to Utopia The Road to Rio The Road to Bali and The Road to Hong Kong I have the first four in a box set, and didn't even know about the other three. Each film is a self contained story with the same actors but playing different characters, so you don't need to watch them in order. I'd recommend Morocco or Utopia personally. Morocco is the funniest I've seen, but Utopia is the least problematic.
3:15 CGI had been around in animated films since The Black Cauldron. Mostly for special effects in difficult-to-draw perspectives/scales and grand backgrounds. The ballroom in Beauty and the Beast was carefully edited 3D CGI, so that it didn't distract from the hand-drawn characters. & The buffalo stampede in the Lion King was entirely cel-shaded CGI and took something like 3yrs to program from scratch and fully render (this was re-used for the Hun army's charge down the mountain in Mulan). The early 90's Rescuers Down Under was heavily cel-shaded CGI as a whole, but it's financial failure scared Disney animation off of going all in on truly developing CGI potential until Dreamworks' success with Shrek. Dreamworks felt the pressure to differentiate from Disney, so they largely embraced 3D CGI when it became obvious their (underated) hand-drawn films were not effectively competing with Disney.
i love that the people who were in charge of this mobie said that the idea was for the both of them to be a couple but ended up discarting the idea because it would bring too much critizize
This movie is so great I love the depiction of the indigenous people looked fine to me especially what DreamWorks was doing to Chel is something they sneakily always do in there movies ❤
I personally feel like whenever we say underrated, it’s almost as if we learn later it actually meant poor. When you had less money you got whatever movies on sale or had them pirated.
I didn't know this but the "I'm still okay" wasn't a part of the original scene, it was added because when they did an early screening (?) For kids and they saw that. Every kid that was there freaked out so DreamWorks added the "I'm still okay" which got better results.
Can someone help find an animated movie from early 2000s or maybe late 90s? It was a story about three wizards. Some little boy was pissed and walked into the bar and the bartender told him the story about those wizards. One of the wizards I believe was named Balthazar, second was short and fat looked like santa claus, and the third one was kinda similar to Gandalf. Gandalf and Santa Claus had a conversation about earth turning around the sun or the other way around and later they needed to pass the task of some creature which would eat them if they fail. First he jokingly asked them what was first, chicken or egg, then he asked them about earth and sun. There was also some young warrior with the and a thief girl with the wizards. The bad guys were some evil sorcerer who would turn into a giant monster (his name Belial or something like that I think), and some short fat king with a clown face.Couldn't find it anywhere
The best/worst part of the movie is that while they got a lot of the Mesoamerican culture right specifically Aztec/Mayan culture the movie is supposed to be set in South America.
I heard the road to el dorado was supposed to be the movie plot to Atlantis the lost empire, but something happened where the two stories were scrapped and made into separate movies. But what if el dorado was Atlantis???
I'm watching this review and realizing how this movie has not aged as qell as I thought. Watching it as a kid everything flew right over my head - and now I just have too many questions, lol. Why didn't they just work out a plan where they can leave and come back as many times as they want for gold? And why didn't they secure any gold to survive the trip? The indigenous leader was okay with them not being gods - they could have stayed. Given how Tulio acted, idk why Miguel decided to go back. He shoild have stayed, imo.
I got a little action figure of the horse in a Happy Meal back when the movie came out; he kicked one of his front legs if you squeezed his tail. It's probably still floating around somewhere in the basement of my mom's house lol
Thank you for your reaction. Enjoyed it. But: The fact that Universal Pictures decided to depict Cortez as a villain, doesn't make the film historically accurate. It takes more than Wikipedia to know what's historically accurate. I recommend watching scholarly lectures of respected historians e.g. on YT if you really want to know your history. One detail: Cortez sailed from Cuba and not from Spain in 1519. He had been living there for many years in love with a native,having mestizo children (he wasn't racist you know) and the expedition to Mexico was a private enterprise unknown to the Spanish crown.
Would had been nice indeed if we had a motive for Chel why she wanted to leave...and agree with the fact what the gold can do for her since she was trying to steal some of it. It seem like the gold is only allowed by certain individuals and they are all poor but w/ that gold and she leave she can use it somewhere valuable for herself. Idk, I thought the guy that fell for the fact Tulio and Miguel were the gods was her father or uncle or some...lol...I just wish we had more of a background on her...but she was clearly made for obvious reasons.
Yeah... chel, man. Forgot about this movie for a long time, but this movie was one that id watch on vhs over and over again as a kid- I get why my dating preferences are what they are now. Lol.
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Hi Sophia great commentary! Also I recommend masterminds, save the last dance, the roommate, 47 meters down/ 47 meters down uncaged
Peyote is another trippy plant that you may have been thinking about
When are you going to watch Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarrons?
Worth mentioning: In the sponsor transition, you really can rock that Steve Jobs turtleneck
20:21 How does he know
3:52 I think you can see sailors they swindled that map from in Cortez's crew.
I love that Kenneth Branagh and Kevin Kline were right next to each other in the recording booth while recording their dialogue, so as to establish a close bond between their characters.
It really makes their vocal chemistry pop, and gives them the opportunity to play off each other. I love the way they fast-talk and bicker.
For a while there, Dreamworks did this a lot & that's why their more comedic 2000's movies have such good banter. The main casts of Shrek & Madagascar were also often in the same room when they recorded.
The scene where Fiona belched & donkey commented that she was just as nasty as Shrek in the first film was actually a blooper from one of the shared voice booth sessions. Cameron Diaz accidentally let one slip & Eddie Murphy rolled with it in character lol.
@@FeatheredWingzPlease tell me there's video of this lol
They knew exactly what they were doing when they designed Chel and I can't thank them enough.😂 This is such a great film, one of DreamWorks' most underrated. And you gotta respect the amount of adult jokes they were able to slip in. It’s unfortunate we never had a sequel as planned, I would have loved another adventure with this trio.
There was supposed to be a sequel??
Oh yeah, no way that was unintentional.
@@SophiaPhannn Yes, and a series supposedly. DreamWorks expected this to do as well as if not better than the Prince of Egypt. But when it unreservedly flopped because people only cared about cgi films then, all extra material was scrapped. A shame really.
@@DanGamingFan2406General audiences are idiots.
Chel is like kida if she was a femme Fatale and wasn't a granny in lingerie. They both dress similar and are natives except chel wears a crop top instead of a bra. Almost copies of each other.
The actual history behind the El Dorado myth is fascinating and morbidly hilarious. As you mentioned, people in South America at the time were not really using gold as currency - just as decoration and jewelry. As a result, while it was valued, it was not valued to _nearly the same extent_ that it was in Europe.
Anyway, in the Muisca kingdom in what is now Colombia, there was a ritual whenever a new ruler took office - he would be covered in gold dust and bathe in Lake Guatavita, and the people gathered around would bring treasures and throw them into the lake as a sacrifice.
The Spanish heard about this ritual and went "oh my word, if they're just throwing gold away like that, they must have so much of it that they don't know what to do with it all!"
So by the time they actually conquered the Muisca, they weren't just looking for gold - they were essentially looking for _infinite_ gold, to the point that whatever they actually found was never going to be enough. So even though they had conquered the kingdom and deposed "the golden one" _(el dorado),_ they kept looking because...the motherlode has to be out there somewhere, right?
Meanwhile, the Spanish were finding enormous amounts of platinum and throwing it away because they had no use for it
Miguel, Tulio, and Chel awakened my bisexuality. Like the animators had no business making them so attractive!
Top tier throuple, still.
Chel: Both.
Tulio: Both?
Miguel: Uh, yeah…. Both is good.
What if I said the evil guy was actually fine?
Literally 😂
YES
I always liked that the Chief seemed to figure out relatively fast that they weren't gods but played along because they were they kind, especially Miguel. They were the kind of "gods" the chief wanted for his people, rather than the human sacrifices, cleanse the city, and using terror sort of gods the high priest wanted. We can talk all day about different cultural moralities around blood letting and human sacrifices, but from my recollection blood and human offerings were from willing participants usually. In the movie it's pretty clear Tzekel-Kan is using unwilling sacrifices.
I also liked that even the horse mouths "El Dorado" when they all see the city for the first time hah!
It's so cruel now that I look back on it, but when my little sister and I were young and the other one might get into trouble if we did something, we would quote to each other, "You will be flogged and after that, God willing, you will be flogged some more." It's a funny memory for both of us now, but man, we had a twisted sense of humor.
THAT’S SO FUNNY LOL
Little me was so obsessed with Chel. I was like “I wanna be her!” No, little me. You were gay.
I totally understand. Not specifically with Chel, but with other characters
Lmao
Chel woke something in all of us.
Please, this is nothing. According to an animator, there was a storyboard scene where Chel and Tulio are having their “alone time”, but almost get caught. Chel tries to cover herself up, only for Tulio to pop his head in between her thighs….
😂😂😂 she as Fem fatal (a bad women who breaks the rules) look it up for a more in depth definition
I watched this movie on repeat when I was younger and I genuinely sat there and acted like an oblivious child ever single time 😂😂😅
Not me, I was going to bed imagining a throuple 😭
The line about what Miguel did to the girl in Barcelona always has me rolling….
My theory about this movie is that the real gods were watching the whole thing happen and decided to roll with it and help by making the volcano erupt to make Tulio and Miguel being gods believable 😂
Having a little bit of fun 😂
For a while people were actually saying that the armadillo was originally a god in the movie but they cut it out. Turns out it was a theory that went through a telephone game 😆 But it's a popular-ish theory!
that has been the biggest fan theory i have seen, and i tend to believe it as well
So there actually was a historical El Dorado. Basically the South American city was built on/near a big gold deposit, and the natives found it. Gold is extremely malleable and doesn’t tarnish, so they plastered it on everything and tossed offerings into the big lake the city was built by. The Conquistadors found it, and basically decided that a lake filled with gold and gold plated decorated buildings wasn’t legendary enough to be the golden city and basically kept searching for El Dorado.
I can't even be mad, that ad transition was slick. i was blind-sided. Respect
I’m actually extremely proud of how I did it 😂😎
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Fun Fact:
Kenneth Branagh improvised that line! He’s a serious Shakespearian actor, so he really knows when to use his million-dollar words!
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We don't get films like this or Treasure Planet often anymore because they were so expensive in every way imaginable. Wish, Across the Spiderverse, and Nimona have gotten close to the vibe, but nothing has felt as epic and expansive and these older animations imo.
Prince of Egypt is iconic. I'm gonna try to push people to do better, but the state of mainstream modern animation is pretty sad generally speaking.
And Puss in Boots 2.
The way I still listen to the soundtrack to this day. It’s already gone platinum in my car lol. Elton John can seriously do no wrong when it comes to composing movie soundtracks.
My personal headcannon is that Chel wanted to leave, cause she was the local con artist (much like tulio and miguel) and felt she needed a fresh start with fresh suckers to con at :PPP
Funny you said the villain was like Frollo. Because as an animation geek, I can say they share the same animator: Kathy Zielinski. Look her up. She has quite an impressive resume.
This is an underrated animated gem from DreamWorks Animation that should get more recognition.
i always thought the armadillo was the god in disguise, because Miguel saved him from the snake, so when the volcano was going off the armadillo was playing with the butterfly between their legs. So when Tulio yelled stop, the armadillo jumped onto the leg, and the volcano stopped. The armadillo is always with them nearby even in the ball match xD. also the gold is very heavy so it would drag maybe for a little bit, but then just fall in the bottom when it stills xD
I love this movie. I also loved the fact that Chel and the Chief knew from the start that they weren’t gods, but played along in different ways. Also yeah: Chel. Just… Chel. She’s great. I love her.
Yeah he kinda stalled a little bit
12:28
Yeah, a good portion of this movie is based on a Rudyard Kipling book called The Man Who Would Be King. Two brits go to Afghanistan to build an empire for themselves and manage to convince the local villagers that they are gods. At the end of the story the villagers realize that they are only human after seeing one of them bleed and kill both of them for taking advantage of them.
It was also adapted into a movie with Sean Connery and Michael Caine
A realistic ending LOL like why was the chief okay with them duping the people??? 😂
I wish I could hear all the ad libbed pet names and flirtatious comments Branagh and Kline apparently recorded that they cut out. That's up there for me with all of Robin Williams's R-rated Genie outtakes as a grail.
I never knew how badly I wanted that, lol
Everyone’s awakening were Chel but for me it was always Miguel and Tulio they were fruity as hell fruity I say 😂😂
miguel with that fuckass bob?? yeah that's a whole edible arrangement
Apparently Miguel & Tulio were suppose to be a gay couple but I heard they scrapped it. Since back then media wasn’t really open to lgbt like it is now these days
@@littlesparrow303 even if they didn’t make them officially gay it still gets the point across regardless 😂😂😂
@@2609pink yeah that’s true
My favorite song is It's Tough to Be a God because (theatre kid forever) it's the only song any character sings!!!!
Also it's real fun how it plays with the idea of the myth of El Dorado as in the conquistadores never found it (maybe making it a wandering isle or something like that would've been better, since in the end the conquistadors thought it was in the Chile-Argentinian Patagonia). And even though this movie buys off the Leyenda Negra, Cortés was one of the most merciless and cruel of the conquistadors.
Fun fact: The artists had to _tone down_ how hot they originally made Chel. The difference for her original design was that she wore a poncho.
The issue? She was ONLY wearing a poncho (El Dorado fans were f*cking robbed😭)
PLEASE tell me you have a link to that!
@@HaydrogenBomb just "Chel concept art" wherever
Chel definitely made a lot of little boys begin feeling certain things early on. She was a powerful woman indeed.
The rule34 community went crazy with her for a good reason!
Today I learned that Sophia is RUTHLESS when it comes to survival. Remind me never to let my horses around you! 😅
This movie was one of my absolute favorites as a kid. The animation was gorgeous, the comedy was hilarious, and yes it was one of the first movies that opened my eyes to romantic attraction. Watching this film was an *experience*, lol.
12:35 there’s a fan theory that the Armadillos we see in the movie are actually the real Gods incarnate. We see at least one every time a “miracle” happens.
They just tossed the gods around like a ball 😩
@@SophiaPhannn I mean they did prevent genocide by Cortez so I guess it’s worth taking some kicks from mortals.
I adore Road To El Dorado 🥰 Gorgeously animated, Sir Elton belts out some bangers, the best horse in animation, and I love the chemistry between Branagh and Kline. It got overshadowed by Prince of Egypt and then practically forgotten after Shrek ☹.
What a better time to upload this than on my 20th birthday! Also, Chel is an absolute baddie and one of my character crushes.
20TH omg a baby HAHA HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🥳
Thank you so much!
I am with you about the initial punishment Cortes handed out to Miguel and Tulio. I didn't process it as a kid and then it took a couple rewatches before I actually took in what he was explaining and I think part of it is because it cuts immediately to Miguel reacting positively to the Cuba part of that entire punishment. Speaking of Miguel, I think it was his voice actor that thought the two were a couple so he kept calling Tulio darling until the studio was like "stop. we don't. we don't want people to think that." And I seen theories/conspiracies about the last frame before they push each other off the platform (to dodge the giant stone jaguar) was them actually kissing edited down to look like what we got in the film.
I do wish the characters got more backstories to understand their motives and personalities more, especially Chel and Tzekhel-Khan.
Yeah I thought so too haha but hard to do in an hour and a half 😂
@@SophiaPhannn I wouldn'y have minded it being longer if that's what they did with the extra time. I have a similar issue with "Sinbad."
Yeah true I constantly questioning what the high chiefs, motives are as well as chel
Girl...Let me tell you a story. So it was Christmas like 6 years ago, all the cousins were together, everyones parents, and I hadn't seen the movie in forever so the movie choices while we were all there was Tarzan, or Road to Eldorado. I pushed Eldorado. Let me tell you, as a 20 year old sitting in the room with everyone during THAT scene I was like, frozen
this movie was a whole bipanic… actually chel was on top, she did things to all of us i think
I love THE ROAD TO EL DORADO, my favourite song is 'IT'S TOUGH TO BE A GOD'.
I also had this movie on VHS growing up. As an adult I have a copy on DVD. I will never stop loving this movie, it just awakens that childhood thrill for adventure in me
What's kinda funny is that I could've sworn you did this movie a while ago but I think I'm thinking of another movie reaction channel and/or I might be confusing this movie with when you did Sinbad or Prince of Egypt 😂 Don't ask me why. Also not gonna lie, I would 100% risk my life to save the horse 😭So I can't help but not fault them for saving the horse. Horses being my favorite animal next to dogs, I ain't letting horses die on my watch! 😂
Omg Sinbad was so long ago 😂
Nah man a panicked horse thinking it’ll drown would definitely kill me if I tried saving it 😂 I know my limits!!
@@SophiaPhannn I mean, true 😂 I just feel like the guilt and trauma that a horse died right in front of me would honestly be extremely hard to recover from 😭
The thruple we all deserve
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Fuck me I spelled Throuple wrong 🥴
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I love everyone’s reaction to this part!
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This went completely over my head until recently.
Glad you finally figured it out I figured it out as soon as I heard it
Thank you! I never noticed the tally marks before. Since I doubt that a prisoner would be left with a sharp object capable of carving them, I would think that they would be from sailors on previous voyages.
"What's the opposite of dickmatized cuz, is it pussimatized?" LMAO
Tulio was snatch-matized by Chel 😂
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I once heard a theory that the chief might have known from the beginning that they were not gods.
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I like this theory because it gives new significance to when the chief looks back at the people after the volcano scene, and when he later tells them, “Big smile! Like you mean it!”
Hi!
I just wanted to clear something out. During the game scene you said you didn’t get what the point would be in sacrificing the winning team. The truth is it is actually a mystery which was the team bound to be sacrificed, the winning or the losing one, but they were both formed with the best soldiers.
It was believed that a sacrifice of the best of the best would keep the gods pleased (this is also why some of the most beautiful women were chosen to be sacrificed), so either way, they would be the most capable of men.
Also, Cortes actually wasn’t well liked before he started conquering territories, bringing gold back to Europe and all.
Oh, and the gold thing, yes, indigenous people from back then didn’t value gold as much as the Spaniards did, they preferred jade, turquoise, obsidian, feathers from rare birds, etc. Maybe Chel knew this because she had already encountered a ‘pale face’ (there are many registers of white people getting to the Americas and setting down within the indigenous communities).
Anyway, thanks so much for the video!
Chel was thick! They most likely animated her with one hand.
Ayooo 💀 you aren't wrong tho 😂😂
The spirit leader gets sucked into a side tunnel when he goes down the whirlpool. I think that’s why we don’t see a bunch of gold by the big rock
Lol u catch it later 👍
Fun fact, Tzekel-Kan was animated by Kathy Zeilinski, the same lady who animated Hexxus, Frollo, Jafar (in his beggar disguise and snake form), and Ursula.
HEXXUS MENTIONED
23 years later, the title of this video still holds true
How to sum up this movie?
“On the one hand, GOLD. On the other hand,
PAINFUL AGONIZING FAILURE.”
This movie is one of my faves from childhood. It was so nice to reminisce by watching this video. Also, Miguel, Tulio, & Chel definitely awakened something in me. OT3 forever.
omg girl i love love LOVE your hair wth😭
Omg thank you babe 🥺🫶🏼
This was one of my favorite movies growing up, and I still love it. The bad guy actually freaked me out as a kid. Hope you will consider doing Quest for Camelot one day. Another underrated gem.
Omg I’m so glad you finally watched this!!! More dreamworks movies!!!
I was shocked watching this for the first time, like this is a kids movie?
Bro this movie was so many people’s bisexual awakening lmao
that segway into the ad was so good and trifling at the same time omggg, go girl!
I have a friend that looks exactly like Chel; like, same haircut, body shape and skintone, the perfect embodiment of her 😵...!
I'm even convincing her to dress as Chel on the next Halloween, like, I'll even buy the cosplay for her 🤗😁...!
Yup, The Road to El Dorado is an interesting gem in DreamWorks Animation history.
Say, for another old-school DreamWorks hand-drawn feature film, check out Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron from 2002.
At the same time, check out the recent hand-drawn 2018 DreamWorks short Bird Karma.
Oh believe me when I say it was going to be even more hornier
This and treasure planet are my all time favourite animated movies .
I watched this movie for the first time this year with my aunts just in time for Indigenous People's Day.
This is my favorite movie in the whole world, and I can’t believe this is the first time I’ve watched it in English.
Tulio had a sickness for the thiccness
The editing in this video was awesome thoroughly enjoyed it.
Folks, that's how you segue to the sponsor. Everyone take notes. Keep up the good work, Sophia!
1:45 not only was he based off a real person. One of his men’s journals survived and that line in his speech is basically a quote from it.
this movie is honestly better researched than the vast majority of films
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I think you said it best earlier when you said she’s got him “under her spell.”
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So if you're wanting a slightly more meta version of this, with maybe some more "eeeeeh" overtones, there's the "Road To" series which inspired this film. From the black and white days, like we're talking 40s. Hence the "eeeeh" I mentioned; this film being about two white guys pretending to be gods to steal the native's gold is kinda tame in comparison to the others, but the others have a more meta sense of humour and can be just as funny; just gotta look past the time period a bit. The middle one, which I personally didn't finish, "The Road to Utopia," is probably the least problematic, since it's set in the US and is about the gold rush. The others are more foreign in their locale... but not in their actors... or research.
The order is:
The Road to Singapore
The Road to Zanzibar
The Road to Morocco
The Road to Utopia
The Road to Rio
The Road to Bali
and The Road to Hong Kong
I have the first four in a box set, and didn't even know about the other three. Each film is a self contained story with the same actors but playing different characters, so you don't need to watch them in order. I'd recommend Morocco or Utopia personally. Morocco is the funniest I've seen, but Utopia is the least problematic.
Friends don’t let friends do stupid things alone. That’s their whole thing.
3:15 CGI had been around in animated films since The Black Cauldron. Mostly for special effects in difficult-to-draw perspectives/scales and grand backgrounds. The ballroom in Beauty and the Beast was carefully edited 3D CGI, so that it didn't distract from the hand-drawn characters. & The buffalo stampede in the Lion King was entirely cel-shaded CGI and took something like 3yrs to program from scratch and fully render (this was re-used for the Hun army's charge down the mountain in Mulan). The early 90's Rescuers Down Under was heavily cel-shaded CGI as a whole, but it's financial failure scared Disney animation off of going all in on truly developing CGI potential until Dreamworks' success with Shrek.
Dreamworks felt the pressure to differentiate from Disney, so they largely embraced 3D CGI when it became obvious their (underated) hand-drawn films were not effectively competing with Disney.
At least they got Cortez right and I love how they handled the cheif's character
i love that the people who were in charge of this mobie said that the idea was for the both of them to be a couple but ended up discarting the idea because it would bring too much critizize
This movie is so great I love the depiction of the indigenous people looked fine to me especially what DreamWorks was doing to Chel is something they sneakily always do in there movies ❤
I personally feel like whenever we say underrated, it’s almost as if we learn later it actually meant poor. When you had less money you got whatever movies on sale or had them pirated.
this movie was my bi awakening
This was the type of movie you stumbled upon at a Blockbuster as a kid only to become obsessed with it
I didn't know this but the "I'm still okay" wasn't a part of the original scene, it was added because when they did an early screening (?) For kids and they saw that. Every kid that was there freaked out so DreamWorks added the "I'm still okay" which got better results.
your make up looks so beautiful!! gold suits you well❤
Omg thank you 🫶🏼
Has anybody ever suggested to you to watch the animated movie "Quest for Camelot"?
It might be right down your alley.
So, when are you going to schedule to watch Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarrons?
Can someone help find an animated movie from early 2000s or maybe late 90s? It was a story about three wizards. Some little boy was pissed and walked into the bar and the bartender told him the story about those wizards. One of the wizards I believe was named Balthazar, second was short and fat looked like santa claus, and the third one was kinda similar to Gandalf. Gandalf and Santa Claus had a conversation about earth turning around the sun or the other way around and later they needed to pass the task of some creature which would eat them if they fail. First he jokingly asked them what was first, chicken or egg, then he asked them about earth and sun. There was also some young warrior with the and a thief girl with the wizards. The bad guys were some evil sorcerer who would turn into a giant monster (his name Belial or something like that I think), and some short fat king with a clown face.Couldn't find it anywhere
Hey I searched up the names of the characters on the internet is the movie The sorcerers apprentice?
They don't make glorious films like these anymore.
The best/worst part of the movie is that while they got a lot of the Mesoamerican culture right specifically Aztec/Mayan culture the movie is supposed to be set in South America.
if being gorgeous was a crime, girl you'd be in alcatraz
Tulio and Miguel, the original black cat and golden retriever couple
I heard the road to el dorado was supposed to be the movie plot to Atlantis the lost empire, but something happened where the two stories were scrapped and made into separate movies. But what if el dorado was Atlantis???
I'm watching this review and realizing how this movie has not aged as qell as I thought. Watching it as a kid everything flew right over my head - and now I just have too many questions, lol. Why didn't they just work out a plan where they can leave and come back as many times as they want for gold? And why didn't they secure any gold to survive the trip? The indigenous leader was okay with them not being gods - they could have stayed. Given how Tulio acted, idk why Miguel decided to go back. He shoild have stayed, imo.
Definitely one of my favorite Dreamworks movies, plus it was my introduction to Elton John 😍 I've been a huge fan since lmao
Hey Sophia if you ever got the chance you should check out the movies the Adventures of Tintin, Spirit Stallion of the Cimmiron,Racing Stripes, Balto
The opposite of 'dickmitized' is 'P-whipped' 😉
I got a little action figure of the horse in a Happy Meal back when the movie came out; he kicked one of his front legs if you squeezed his tail. It's probably still floating around somewhere in the basement of my mom's house lol
gals wake up new sophia video just dropped
Thank you for your reaction. Enjoyed it. But: The fact that Universal Pictures decided to depict Cortez as a villain, doesn't make the film historically accurate. It takes more than Wikipedia to know what's historically accurate. I recommend watching scholarly lectures of respected historians e.g. on YT if you really want to know your history. One detail: Cortez sailed from Cuba and not from Spain in 1519. He had been living there for many years in love with a native,having mestizo children (he wasn't racist you know) and the expedition to Mexico was a private enterprise unknown to the Spanish crown.
Would had been nice indeed if we had a motive for Chel why she wanted to leave...and agree with the fact what the gold can do for her since she was trying to steal some of it. It seem like the gold is only allowed by certain individuals and they are all poor but w/ that gold and she leave she can use it somewhere valuable for herself. Idk, I thought the guy that fell for the fact Tulio and Miguel were the gods was her father or uncle or some...lol...I just wish we had more of a background on her...but she was clearly made for obvious reasons.
Flogged and flogged some more flew right over my head as a kid 😂
Awww yeah Chel time baby 😎
I blame this movie for my taste in women
Yeah... chel, man. Forgot about this movie for a long time, but this movie was one that id watch on vhs over and over again as a kid- I get why my dating preferences are what they are now. Lol.
Still remains my favorited 2-d DreamWorks film
23:52 When it comes to what's the girl equivilant of "dickmatized" may I propose the idea that the term be "CLIT-matized"?
I AM OBSESSED WITH THIS FILM!! 😍😍😍