I remember watching this about a year ago and thinking it was amazing, but then again, I watched it at around midnight so I was probably far too tired to realise how good it really....isn't.

It has pretty nice animation, but the plot...
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I remember watching this about a year ago and thinking it was amazing, but then again, I watched it at around midnight so I was probably far too tired to realise how good it really....isn't.

It has pretty nice animation, but the plot is just so silly, and it failed to make me laugh once. It's a very confusing film, as it's hard to tell what it's target audience is. Some things the characters say are quite intelligent, and use words I haven't heard before, but it has got to be possibly the least funny Dreamworks film I've ever seen, as the humour is just so...childish. It just doesn't make sense that they use very complex animation, and have characters speaking words not even children would know, when the humour is clearly designed for children and no-one else. Maybe it was just an attempt to appeal to all age groups, which ultimately failed.

Now onto the music. I was very surprised to here Elton John, Tim Rice, and Hans Zimmer were working on this film's soundtrack, and I was even a little excited, seeing as they produced the best music for an animated film I've ever heard - The Lion King. The music isn't atrocious, it's just not very interesting. Maybe it's because it's of a far different style to The Lion King's music, or maybe it's because not even the music goes perfectly with this film; which is odd considering the movie itself all over the place in many ways.

While I'd probably rate this film a lot higher than most other Dreamworks offerings (because of it's animation), it's not the kind of film I'd recommend or watch again. I can see why a person like Roger Ebert would like this film, because it does offer a lot of things that usually make a film great, but it's just not funny enough to make all of the other things work. Maybe I was just expecting a Disney film with this one.

I thought this was a really good kids/family movie. I wish they would make more Dreamworks movies like this. I liked the two guys(Tulio & Miguel) who pretended to be gods of the land Eldorado. A good part was when Miguel called off the...
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I thought this was a really good kids/family movie. I wish they would make more Dreamworks movies like this. I liked the two guys(Tulio & Miguel) who pretended to be gods of the land Eldorado. A good part was when Miguel called off the sacrifices. Sacrifices are for the poeple who disobeyed the gods or loses to the gods in a certain sport. Basically, sacrfices are people who die for the gods. Miguel called them off. That was pretty cool. Anyways, I think that's a really good movie and should make the top 10 list for 2000.