**FOR KIDS?!** The Road to El Dorado Reaction/ Commentary: FIRST TIME WATCHING 

"Are they going to be Flynn Rider-type criminals?" No, Flynn Rider is a Miguel/Tulio-type criminal.

I once heard this movie described as what happens when the Bard and the Rogue leave the party and go off one their own adventure. And yeah, I feel that is very accurate

0:23 "don t know anything about this movie" I was like thank God, he s gonna enjoy it to the full😁

You mentioned how lucky Tulio and Miguel are in passing as gods, there’s an interesting theory that the armadillo they found is actually the god haha. If you watch the volcano scene again, when they first get to El Dorado, and look at the armadillo it’s definitely believable

A couple fun facts about this movie: Usually voice actors record their lines separately, but Tulio and Miguel were in the studio together to make it possible to play off each other. For the big water ship scene at the end, a new engine had to be created to simulate the movement of the water. Sadly, this movie was a flop, much like Atlantis and so no sequel was ever made.

In a way Tzekel kan got what he wanted, he found a 'diety' that matched the right image and mindset, but what he missed was the possibility that his gods(or anyone like them) see him as just another puny mortal like everyone else and he wasn't gonna be rewarded for his loyalty like he probably thought. Also considering how the opening was the gods providing a lush jungle paradise filled with life, I'm not sure where Tzekel kan got the notion they were the 'the bloodthirsty rule with an iron fist' type, I'm taking that as a 'this is what i want rather than what they actually want' thing.

There is some speculation that Chel herself is a goddess. In Mayan culture Chel was the jaguar goddess of love, sex, fertility, and death (among other things).

This film is iconic and the dynamic between Tulio and Miguel is amazing! It’s easily one of my favorite animated films ever. And even though El Dorado is a fictional place I’ve always loved the way they integrated aspects from Pre-Hispanic cultures like the Mayans, Aztecs and Olmecs, there are a few easter eggs here and there ✨

I'm attracted to Tolio's intelligence and wit but also in love with miguel's kind heart and goofiness. This movie has infinite meme potential and it upsets me that people aren't aware of it. It Still makes me chuckle even in the middle of ugly crying lol 😅

"He's more a new testament kinda guy" Yeah, that explains Miguel quite well! Also I love the relationship between the three.

I am over the moon happy that you have reacted to this movie! Its literally ( 100% honest) On my top five favorite films in the world!

Chel is possibly the most underrated female lead in cartoon history

I love this movie so much! Kenneth Branagh and Kevin Kline were in the same recording room together riffing and bouncing off of each other's wit and deep vocabulary. Also Chel is a badass and deserves more recognition!

Everyone needs someone like the chief

When Miguel said it seems he has been giving a lot of orders he was commenting on the fact they didn’t make the orders the high priest has been giving orders under the guise of them being orders from the gods as he has been probably for a long time and the chief who the entire time knew they weren’t gods knew if he played along they would as gods be able to make their own orders and take power away from the priest

I love how much you appreciated Chel through this entire movie!! I feel like people usually just comment on her looks, but she actually helped them so much (lbr, they wouldn't have lasted without her)!

"Are they going to be Flynn Ryder-type criminals?" Me, thinking about the hc that Flynn Ryder is actually their son: 👀👀 Miguel and Tulio were actually supposed to be a couple before that was scrapped bc it was deemed 'too inappropriate for kids'. Whatever that means.. Anyway, Tulio, Miguel and Chel make the best throuple!!

I watched this movie for the first time a year ago, im 22 now. First half of this film is absolutelly fantastic, also the fact that big dude knows they arent gods but hes fine with pretending they are is really smart cuz it is having a good affect on people

saw someone say once that flynn rider is miguel & tulio’s lovechild and now that will never leave my brain 😅

Ah, Chel. What’s not to love? She’s slick, can play tricks, but also, she DUMMY -- Also, is nobody gonna talk about the moment when Tulio and Miguel first arrived in El Dorado, and feared that they were about to be executed, Miguel said, “Tulio, I just want you to know, I’m sorry about that girl in Barcelona.”?

I absolutely loved this movie as a child and it definitely holds up.

This movie is in the top 5 of my Dreamworks movie list, along with The Rise of Guardians, HTTYD 1 and 2, and the Prince of Egypt. All of these are sooooo good. 😍😍

i would just like to point out that at 24:12… chel was nowhere near tulio’s face lmao i don’t think they were kissing

Chel might one of the most openly thirsty female leads in a kids movie, and I love her!

My top 3 favourite 2d DreamWorks movies are: 3.-The Road to el Dorado. 2.-Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron. 1.-The Prince of Egypt.

I love this movie. If anyone plays dnd, this is how Chaotic Neutral looks.

These two have some of Thor and Loki energy

It’s actually based on an older group of movies called “The road to” series

Ohhh The Road To El Dorado is definitely one of my all time favorite childhood movie by DreamWorks. 🤣 I do enjoyed everyone reaction upon watching this animated film.

This is such an underrated movie! I'm so glad my Spanish teacher always played this when he didn't want to teach XD

Apparently in original script, Chel was a slave about to be sacrificed for the gods, so that's the reason she wants out..

El Dorado is the fabled lost city of gold that may have existed at some point in the distant past confusing I know but still

Tulio was my gay awakening 😆😏👍

It was the ass shot that did it for me when I was 11. It immediately became a rewind classic for me. I showed it to my kids and my teenager knows it by heart lol.

One of the more interesting and nuanced parts of this movie to me is how Tulio and Miguel think they're conning everyone (except Chel), but in reality, the village chief and high priest knew from the very start and used them to further their power plays against each other. The greater scope conflict of the story is the government vs. the church and that's something not often seen, especially in animated kids movies.

The Chef knew the boys weren't Gods but went along with it to protect his people from the bad priest. and he grew respect for them for protecting his people.

My favorite fan theory is that Tulio and Miguel are in fact gods that lost their powers/memories because either monotheism crushed their religion and they lost followers. Or something happened with another high being that caused them to lose powers/memories.

Cortez: "For Spain, for glory, for gold!" Thor: "You can tell his motives are pure" yeah.... PURE GOLD! Ba dum chhhhh.... I'll see myself out

Oh, I'm happy to watch your reaction. I hope it will help this movie to be more popular, because it's a very nice animated story.

This movie taught me so many new English words (English is my 3rd language) and I "studied" the script and song lyrics before an English final and I remember the word "pioneer" showed up and I was so happy that I started humming the song in the middle of the test lol #bigbrain

"giving me lion king vibes" Well, it helps that the music was by the same team as worked on Lion King

Fucking ADORE this movie! One of My favorite movies ever! :D

One thing that makes me love this movie even more is that Sir Elton John does all of the amazing songs in this (or at least my favourites like the Trail We Blaze, It’s Tough to Be A God, Friends Never Say Goodbye to name a few). I absolutely loved the characters and even though it was quite dark in some parts, I loved how quirky, bright and beautiful the whole movie was. I loved Miguel and Tulio but Tzekel-Kan creeped me out a little ngl. Really effective villain lol.

Oh my god yes. This is one of my all-time favourite animated movies

In fact Maximus is the horse from this movie ❤️👍

The coincidence that another channel I watched came out with a video about this movie then your reaction. Also a fun fact they animated the villains teeth more realistic in this movie to freak people out

“I’m more New Testament then Old Testament.”😂😂😂😂😂 loved that comparison between the 2.

This was absolutely my favorite movie as a kid. I still have the DVD and watch it at least twice a year!

I used to watch a series when I was a kid in the 80's , it was called The Mysterious Cities of Gold. I have no idea if it was any good just that I liked it at the time and that the theme song was part of why I loved it. Thor, if you haven't seen the cartoon film Fern Gully I would strongly recommend it!

Love anything that Kevin Kline is in but pairing him with Kenneth Branagh was amazing! love this film ❤😊

I went to see this the weekend just aft e it opened. Seems ages ago. I enjoyed the songs, the wonderful colors, and especially- the interaction between Kevin Kline and Kenneth Brannagh who have really great voices apart from their acting. 😊

7:57 "at least things can't get any worse" *starts raining* me as a kid: "oh no the horror" me now: "ah yes, fresh water on the high seas"

I can honestly say that this was never one of my favorites, but something about this reaction really made me appreciate how set apart it is from other animated films. This reaction was a delight~

Honestly Miguel and Tulio had so much subtext to them. There was this one song in the credits called "Someday Out Of The Blue" which didn't make it into the movie, but was put into the credits and... Yeah. That song was very, very gay. Originally the actors also said things like "darling" on some occasions, but that too was cut out of course. I do like what they ended up going for in the end, regardless though, it creates a very unique dynamic!

grew up watching this movie and still remember watching it on tape and over the years i came up with what the 2 would be gods. Miguel would be the god of fun and joy and Tulio of knowledge and planning. and i would be like Miguel : )

This movie is the sole reason I will never say "it can't get any worse"

Chel being the true MVP is IMO like Sacagawea was to Lewis and Clark.

You're so chill, loved watching along with you! 😁 Also this movie has been one of my favorites of all time, loved it since I was a kid, but only really grasped most of its content as an adult 🙂

im SO sad i didnt see this until i was an adult but seriously my favorite movie ever

Loved your reaction, this was so much fun to watch! ❤ Also fun fact: I heard that originally Miguel and Tulio were supposed to be a couple, but the movie company thought it would too risky, given that a lot of people still can't accept lgbtq+ people and storylines, and this came out in early 2000. But you can still feel the chemistry between the two, and it also gives a bit more depth to why Miguel got so upset about hearing Tulio say all that "forget Miguel" stuff. And I love that Elton John is in this!

From the 1940's to the 60's, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour made a series of "Road To" movies that provided the template for this one.

LOVE this movie! Watched it all the time growing up :D

I think their was a bigger subplot about Chel pissing off Tzekel-Khan so she ran away to avoid being sacrificed but they cut it for time

Chel: "This is my Boyfriend, Tullio and this is Tullios boyfriend, Miguel" Srsly, these three are like the perfect polyamorous relationship. Watch Chel get the next Girl in Barcelona!!

Y'know, it's actually pretty lucky that it started raining while they were in the boat....

This movie is carried by the leads. Without Miguel and Tulio as they are, this is half as good.

I don't know if you could tell, but 'The Road to El Dorado' is also an homage to the "Road" pictures that featured Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour.

This was back when PG ment something, when you actually needed your parents to wach this with you.

The shark scene is how you know the difference between a Disney movie and a DreamWorks movie

This was one of my favorite films as a kid 😂

Bisexual, the movie

Such an underrated movie. Sadly, no sequel.

This is one of my favorite movies, one of the more unique that I’ve seen for sure. great soundtrack too.

I LOVE this movie. One of Dreamwork's underrated.

I wish that this had gotten a sequel.

Since you appeared to enjoy this movie (and Atlantis Lost Empire), here's a short list of movies of the same "genre" of fun and adventure with a little bit of music Atlantis The lost Empire's "Sequel" Atlantis Milo's Return Quest for Camelot Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas The Prince of Egypt

This move is based on the Road to movies, parody movies from the 30s to the 60s, that usually made fun of the genre of the time, and the studios they worked for, and broke the 4th wall, while going to a "exotic" country where the 2 heroes would backstab each others for the main pretty girl of each movie, while making jokes ^^

Thanks man, great reaction. Didn't know I needed this, but I really did. 🌋

Cortez, Steele, and Ed the Hyena would have to be my favorite Jim Cummings characters

finally watched one of your videos! youtube has been recommending them for a while. very impressed with your marvel-like title!

24:11 had hoped he would notice

This movie didn't make enough at the box office for a sequel I love the soundtrack bought when it came out still got it

Yeah this was for kids XD it's darkish but then again almost every early 2000's movie was like that for the most part anyways

This movie has been described as a DnD session where you can only roll ones and twenties

I love this movie so much ! You should react to the other 2D animation style movies from Dreamworks like Sinbad or Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron. Along wirh The Road to Eldorado they have amazing visuals and great storytelling !

Since I haven't seen it in the comments yet, in Aztec mythology (or, at least, an extremely simplified version) the jaguar was not only a life-and-death sort of encounter, but a symbol of the power of the afterlife, and human sacrifices were most common in the name of a jaguar god. In the Aztec-or-as-well-as-white-people-understood-of-it faith, the Jaguar god was THE god to make human sacrifices to.

This is my favorite animated movie of all time, glad you get to see it 🤘🏾

Much as I love Miguel's optimism when it comes to pretty much everything, I'm also definitely much more like Tulio when it comes to looking at things with pessimistic realism.

Such a classic movie so funny. The music is 👌 Have you watched Spirit stallion of the Cimarron? S Tier movie

Fun fact El Dorado just translate to The Golden, the RU-vid channel Overly Sarcastic Productions has a good video that summarizes the origin of the myth

This film reminded me of an early Nickolodean series, The Secret Cities of Gold, or some such. It was an adventure of a couple of Spanish stowaways, or maybe sailors who deserted, partnered with a couple of kids, and sought the legendary hidden city of gold. Spoiler, it was an ancient South American civilization that had mastered space flight! No, really. I don't remember it too well, I was like 6, maybe 8. Young. Still, very similar in my memory.

Such a good movie. Wish they made sequels. They had like 7 movies planned :(

even as a kid when I had no idea of the concept of relationships I shipped them lol 😂🌝 „this gives me lion king vibes“ Elton John: wonder why👀

As a queer kid growing up this was my favorite movie. It’s basically confirmed by the studio that they were a gay couple And then they had to somehow come up with a way to make it straight so they added the girl. I love their dynamic so much.

They added alot of mature things in kids movies because kids never would get it, heck cartoons like Code Lyoko (hardcore fan here) go veeeery far and do some pretty extreme things like having children face near death and if you want an example of this in that show, look up the episodes Killer Music and Common Interest because yeah, it actually did that and it aired on the Cartoon Network block Miguzi and therefore CN.

This was partially a modern riff on a series of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby comedies starting with _The Road to Singapore_ in 1940 and ending with _The Road to Hong Kong_ in 1962 (Dorothy Lamour was in six of them, but bowed out on the seventh). They were iconic movies about two disreputable friends getting into improbable hijinx, and even if you've never seen them, you've probably seen other riffs on them, as they inspired a lot of later humor. This movie was a worthy successor. :)

Holy ship! My fav line in this movie

I think I'll watch this in full on Patreon if I have time. I really enjoyed the highlights and the humour is just the best! I haven't seen this since I was a kid but I remember it came on TV and it didn't faze me then. I notice a lot of reactors find films that I watched as a kid "dark" or "adult"...like even Hercules because it dealt with death a lot. Side note, I was laughing when you said "we just cut away and everything is better? There's no sharks to deal with?"...ever the optimist, Thor 😂Anyway, this is such a beautifully animated film. The city reminded me of so many things...Tower of Babel, Egypt, Meereen (Game of Thrones) but also like you mentioned, the paradise in Lion King too. Anyway, great reaction as usual! This was super fun :)

06:21 - 06:27 Oof!! I felt that!😫 This movie is underestimated. And I know that for sure,because I'm one of those who underestimate it. Just a random suggestion for a future movie..."Azur&Asmar".

I remember watching this in my middle school history class