| 88 |
Chicago Tribune
It has a jokey irreverence that keeps it from teetering over the edge to absurdity.
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| 75 |
Chicago Sun-Times
Bright and zesty.
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| 75 |
New York Post
Ends up taking enough detours to keep DreamWorks' latest animated epic from striking cinematic gold.
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| 67 |
Austin Chronicle
The DreamWorks team continues to give Disney a run for their money.
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| 63 |
Miami Herald
Proves there are some things cartoons can't do better than live action after all.
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| 63 |
New York Daily News
Pretty much a road to nowhere.
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| 63 |
Boston Globe
Less than memorable.
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| 63 |
Baltimore Sun
The one thing most sorely missing is movie magic.
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| 63 |
USA Today
This is one Road whose gold apparently got paved over.
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| 60 |
Chicago Reader
A pleasure.
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| 60 |
LA Weekly
A snappy, delightfully balanced bit of historic whimsy.
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| 59 |
Mr. Showbiz
Feels like it was pulled out of the freezer and hastily microwaved about 10 minutes before you arrived at the theater.
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| 58 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Its animation is simply glorious, but its story and characters are trite.
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| 55 |
TNT RoughCut
Morgan Fouch
Has neither the charm, plot nor visual splendor of its predecessors.
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| 50 |
Christian Science Monitor
The package would be more enticing if it didn't fall so squarely into overused Hollywood formulas.
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| 50 |
The New York Times
Little more than a sanitized blend of nonsense and adventure and just a teeny bit of romance, interspersed with the occasional pop song.
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| 50 |
Charlotte Observer
A loosely woven crazy quilt of other, better movies.
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| 50 |
Los Angeles Times
Reasonably diverting, but don't count on it lingering in your memory.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Examiner
A lazy, torpid piece of animated tourism.
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| 50 |
Film.com
A very silly film.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Glitters, but it's not pure gold.
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| 42 |
Entertainment Weekly
This trip down The Road to El Dorado proceeds under the speed limit all the way.
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| 40 |
Film.com
Cobbled together from so many sources that it never develops a narrative drive of its own.
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| 40 |
Newsweek
Andrea C. Basora
May only be remembered for featuring the first homoerotic nude bathing scene in children's animated movie history.
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| 40 |
Variety
A strained and pallid concoction that won't fire the collective imaginations of modern children.
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| 40 |
Film.com
A too-familiar road.
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| 40 |
TV Guide
An often spectacular but ultimately rather tedious musical/adventure/comedy.
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| 30 |
Washington Post
The movie itself may be a species of Montezuma's revenge.
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| 30 |
Dallas Observer
Obnoxiously dull.
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