VHS The Road to Eldorado
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"The Road to Eldorado" is a DreamWorks animated feature from 2000, arriving on VHS in the standard clamshell release that DreamWorks Home Entertainment pushed through retail that same year. The title follows Tulio and Miguel, two Spanish con men who stumble into the fabled city of gold and talk their way into godhood. Voice cast includes Kevin Kline and Kenneth Branagh in the leads, with Rosie Perez, Armand Assante, and Edward James Olmos rounding out the cast. Elton John and Tim Rice handled the songs. Not a film that got a second theatrical swing, but it developed a real following on home video and cable rotation through the early 2000s.
DreamWorks Animation was operating at full ambition in this stretch. "The Prince of Egypt" came out in 1998. "Antz" was 1998. "Chicken Run" dropped the same summer as "Eldorado" in 2000. The studio was running multiple pipelines simultaneously and taking genuine swings at the adult animated audience alongside the family market. "Eldorado" sat at an interesting angle in that lineup: rated PG, more openly comedic than "Prince of Egypt," and built around buddy-picture energy rather than a single hero arc. Elton John's "El Dorado" and "Someday Out of the Blue" are on the VHS as part of the film's end credits, which means the original theatrical version is intact. This is not a stripped reissue. DreamWorks Home Entertainment VHS releases from this period ran with full print quality, and the 2000 release predates any DVD-transition reprints.
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This copy comes in the standard clamshell. The cover art runs the jungle palette with Tulio and Miguel on horseback, the golden city in the background, and the DreamWorks banner across the top. If the Roger Ebert quote is present on the case exterior, that is the first-run packaging configuration, which some collectors track. Pre-owned. One copy in the building. Check the tape window on the cassette shell: the ribbon should sit flat with no visible slack, and if the clear opening shows a clean full reel, the tape has not been stressed.
OWNER VERIFY: Release year 2000 and the first-run clamshell print configuration, including the Ebert quote on exterior packaging.
The last wave of hand-drawn features meeting the last wave of analog home video.
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