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What A Cartoon Movie! - The Road to El Dorado (Patreon)

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2021-09-27 04:01:01
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2023-01

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In the year 2000, not even the combined powers of Elton John and $90 million dollars' worth of the finest 2D animation could convince audiences to care about The Road to El Dorado; after a miserable opening weekend, it limped out of theaters, and went on to be a forgotten film. Or has it? In recent years, the internet has been buzzing about its status as a hidden gem that got a raw deal in Y2K. So are we future folks more enlightened than the pre-9/11 moviegoing public? This month, listen in as we explore The Road to El Dorado 21 years later, and find out if it's worth its weight in gold! 

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Blake R.

i still remember begging my mom to take me to see this from the ads i saw on tv. i think we saw it opening weekend but I distinctly remember the theater being incredibly sparse. it was the first movie we saw after moving into our new home (at the time) so I have a weirdly fuzzy nostalgic attachment to going out to see it as a little getaway from a house of unpacked boxes and paints. also going to go contrarian to Bob and Henry but as someone only now discovering that armadillo song i think it's a bop!

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

I'd seen this as a kid but probably not in 20 years at this point, outside of memes on Twitter. For how much people talk about it online, I was initially like "really, this movie?" but by the end it really grew on me and I had a good time. Minus the incredibly distracting 3D stuff (especially in the third act), it looks really good and has performances that are pretty much too good for Dreamworks. It's probably my second favourite Dreamworks movie (after Megamind) and leagues better than Shrek, so it's very disappointing it was met with such a wet fart of reception. -- I have not yet gotten to the point in the podcast where there's a fuller discussion of the alleged queerness of the film, but based on what Bob & Henry were saying up front, I assume they don't really buy that reading of it, and I'd tend to agree. It's no more homoerotic than most buddy comedies. While I absolutely did NOT expect the "both, both is good" scene to have anything to do with bisexuality, it is entirely divorced from that, so it becoming a (great) bi meme is basically coincidence. I'm certainly fine with queer readings of films (and do a lot of that myself), but I just don't see a lot to grasp at with this one.

nina matsumoto
>>68636881

To add to song opinions: I agree with Henry that "It's Tough to be a God" is the best song. Makes me think maybe more of the songs should've been sung by the characters and not Elton.

Blake R.
>>68636881

yeah it vibes a little better when it's part of the movie's diegesis. I remember loving Tough to be a God and singing it on the playground a lot but teachers give you funky looks when you casually sing about deification and sacrifice

Druida

Archenemy of the podcast, Jeffrey Katzenberg.

Anonymous

Pineapple Express is the Rosie Perez comeback in my heart

Devin Hoffarth

DreamWorks stealing from Disney feels common even after the early 00's. I'm near certain that Megamind only exists because Incredibles and my Tinfoil Hat theory is someone got tipped off about Bear and the Bow/Brave and this lead to How to Train Your Dragon. Could be wrong about that last one but thats my guess.

Anonymous
>>68665257

Rosie Perez was awesome in Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)

Anonymous

Something worth noting for VHS sales, this movie had a coupon on the front. I begged my Granny for this movie because I could win a million dollars. Actually, it was the Razor scooter that had my 10 year old heart. I got both the VHS and the awful Gameboy color game that year. I definitely won nothing 😅 A Google image search still shows the coupon! Loved this movie either way, and wore that VHS out.

Anonymous

This movie was one of two of my first DVDs. The other was Snow Day, a probably bad movie I still watched a lot because DVDs were a novel experience at the time. Like I get why people ship Miguel and Tulio, up until the last like, 10 years, LGBT characters were harder to come by. Also as far as cartoon men go, they're pretty good looking and to a contingent of shippers, thats really all that matters. That said, I really do appreciate the "break up" song for showing that male friendships ending can be just as painful as a break up with a partner. Having ended a friendship with another guy I'd been friends with for 10 years for long and complicated reasons, that song got to me. I don't regret the time we had and I still think of him fondly. I'm also a sucker for Elton John ballads. I remember there was an El Dorado PC game demo disk I got from somewhere, possibly a magazine. It wasn't very good, but when most of the PC games you have are these demo disks, you milk it.

bearwitness

I'm proud to say I actually managed to see this in theaters back in the day! Listening to this episode gave me both a new appreciation for how good the animation in this is (all that stuff they have the horse do!), and how great this voice cast was together. That said, the lyric "We shall surely gaze on the sweet unfolding of an antique mystery" has been rattling around in my head for years now as one of the most florid, over-embellished things I've ever heard in a Tim Rice song...which is really saying something! I'm not even sure it's a bad line, it's just a LOT.

ThePich

Just like Lola Bunny created a generation of furriest, i bet Chel gave a big boost to the sales of Gigantic Asses lol. I really loved this film when I was a kid and one of the reasons is that I'm my opinion at the time it didn't have the more "tinkly" scenes from Disney movies (same reason why I really like Emperor's new groove), but i didn't remember the movie have songs! IMO the fact that so many people see the main characters as being in a gay relationship really shows how few genuine male friendships there are in modern media.

Olympian Comics

I remember watching this movie many times on VHS. And no I didn't see it in theatres. I'm glad you liked it. I remember it being good but I'll need to double check how it hold's up. This was a phenomenal podcast and discussion of the movie. For me I always thought that the "forget Miguel" was not misunderstanding. He was more assuming that he's being phased out between Tullio and Chel, so he decides to abandon the two and stay in El Dorado. I was a bit too young to find Chel super sexy, but now, some added bonus points.