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Only the second traditionally animated feature-length offering from [=DreamWorks=], after ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt''. The studio may have been hoping to rival the success {{Creator/Disney}} had enjoyed with the [[MediaNotes/DisneyRenaissance Renaissance]] of the 1990s. Unfortunately the film failed to equal ''Prince of Egypt'' commercially and critically, receiving a lukewarm evaluation and becoming a BoxOfficeBomb, and it marked the beginning of the end for the [=DreamWorks=] era of traditional animation.

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Only the second traditionally animated feature-length offering from [=DreamWorks=], after ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt''. The studio may have been hoping to rival the success {{Creator/Disney}} had enjoyed with the [[MediaNotes/DisneyRenaissance Renaissance]] of the 1990s. Unfortunately the film failed to equal ''Prince of Egypt'' commercially and critically, receiving a lukewarm evaluation and becoming a BoxOfficeBomb, and it marked the beginning of the end for the [=DreamWorks=] era of traditional animation.
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* EatTheDog: Averted; when Miguel and Tulio are dying of hunger and thirst eating Altivo (which could have kept them alive for much longer) never seems to cross their minds, hinting that Tulio is fonder of the horse than he lets on.
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* TogetherWeAreX: Miguel and Tulio introduce themselves this way twice, saying their individual names first and then ending in something that groups both of them.
** The first time it ends with them acknowledging they have no title to their names, so they are simply Miguel and Tulion.
--->'''Miguel:''' I am Miguel.\\
'''Tulio:''' And I am Tulio.\\
'''Miguel:''' And they call us [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Miguel and Tulio!]]
** The second time, riding high on their con, they present themselves to the natives as Tulio and Miguel, mighty and powerful gods.
--->'''Tulio:''' Miguel and Tulio!\\
'''Miguel:''' Tulio and Miguel!\\
'''both:''' Mighty and powerful Gods!
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* ChekhovsSkill: At the beginning, Miguel and Tulio makes a DistractingFakeFight against each other in order to flee from everyone at the gambling scene and the guards. Later on, they pretend to get into an argument with each other so they can catch Tzekel-Kan by surprise by punching him into the whirlpool.
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* CargoConcealmentCaper: Happens accidentally. Miguel and Tulio hide in barrels from their pursuers, but before they can climb out, the barrels are loaded into the ship of Hernan Cortes. They are found out and put on the brig, where they escape on a boat with Cortes' horse and end up discovering El Dorado.
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Only the second traditionally animated feature-length offering from [=DreamWorks=], after ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt''. The studio may have been hoping to rival the success {{Creator/Disney}} had enjoyed with the [[UsefulNotes/DisneyRenaissance Renaissance]] of the 1990s. Unfortunately the film failed to equal ''Prince of Egypt'' commercially and critically, receiving a lukewarm evaluation and becoming a BoxOfficeBomb, and it marked the beginning of the end for the [=DreamWorks=] era of traditional animation.

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Only the second traditionally animated feature-length offering from [=DreamWorks=], after ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt''. The studio may have been hoping to rival the success {{Creator/Disney}} had enjoyed with the [[UsefulNotes/DisneyRenaissance [[MediaNotes/DisneyRenaissance Renaissance]] of the 1990s. Unfortunately the film failed to equal ''Prince of Egypt'' commercially and critically, receiving a lukewarm evaluation and becoming a BoxOfficeBomb, and it marked the beginning of the end for the [=DreamWorks=] era of traditional animation.
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* HumanSacrifice: Tzekel-Kan loves to kill people in the name of the gods and threatens this often. "It needs more... body."

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* HumanSacrifice: Tzekel-Kan loves to kill people in the name of the gods and threatens this often. [[spoiler:And as he plans to awaken the stone jaguar, he tells his assistant that "It needs more... body."", and then shoves him into the pool.]]



-->'''Guard:''' I'm still okay!

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-->'''Guard:''' [[MadeOfIron I'm still okay!okay!]]
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* HeadTurningBeauty: Chel. See MsFanservice.

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* MsFanservice: [[HeadTurningBeauty Chel.]] She wears [[Stripperiffic a very skimpy outfit,]] [[HartmanHips huge hips]] (as demonstrated in a ball-game scene) and openly seduces one of the male MainCharacters.

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* MsFanservice: [[HeadTurningBeauty Chel.]] She wears [[Stripperiffic a very skimpy outfit,]] outfit, [[HartmanHips huge hips]] (as demonstrated in a ball-game scene) and openly seduces one of the male MainCharacters.
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* MsFanservice: [[HeadTurningBeauty Chel.]] She wears a very skimpy outfit, has huge hips (as demonstrated in a ball-game scene) and openly seduces one of the male MainCharacters.

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* MsFanservice: [[HeadTurningBeauty Chel.]] She wears [[Stripperiffic a very skimpy outfit, has outfit,]] [[HartmanHips huge hips hips]] (as demonstrated in a ball-game scene) and openly seduces one of the male MainCharacters.

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* HeadTurningBeauty: Chel. See MsFanservice.



* MsFanservice: Chel. She wears a very skimpy outfit, has huge hips (as demonstrated in a ball-game scene) and openly seduces one of the male MainCharacters.

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* MsFanservice: Chel. [[HeadTurningBeauty Chel.]] She wears a very skimpy outfit, has huge hips (as demonstrated in a ball-game scene) and openly seduces one of the male MainCharacters.
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* BittersweetEnding: More on the sweet side than bitter. [[spoiler:Tulio, Miguel and Chel use the boat to ram into the rock pillars of the cave, blocking off the entrance and sealing El Dorado away from the world forever to keep it safe from Cortés' army. But by doing so, they (mostly Tulio) have to be okay with losing all of the gold they planned to bring out. But even he accepts it and instead appreciates the adventure. The movie then ends with the three heading off towards their next one.]]


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* CaveBehindTheFalls: The entrance to El Dorado is behind a waterfall that only the inhabitants know about.


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* CynicIdealistDuo: Tulio is the cynic and Miguel is the idealist. It's shown early on at the beginning of the movie during their con dice act, where Miguel is excited about getting the map to El Dorado, believing the adventure of finding it to be their fate while Tulio isn't nearly as keen on it and points out that his disbelief in fate is the reason why he's playing with loaded dice. Their different perspectives clashes constantly throughout their adventure, where Tulio still doesn't get into the whole adventure thing and wants to leave El Dorado with as much gold as possible while they have the chance and he constantly reminds his friend that if they make the slightest mistake with their GodGuise, they will pay the price for it. Miguel meanwhile, sees the adventure as the treasure and loves his time at El Dorado and interacting with the inhabitants, [[spoiler:which leads to him initially [[IChooseToStay wanting to stay there]] after he and Tulio have a falling-out because of their viewpoints.]]


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* SmallSecludedWorld: El Dorado isn't this at first. It's just really well hidden [[CaveBehindTheFalls behind a waterfall]]. But by the end of the movie, [[spoiler:it becomes this full stop by the heroes blocking the entrance to it with rocks to make sure nobody is ever gonna find it again.]]
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Only the second traditionally animated feature-length offering from [=DreamWorks=], after ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt''. The studio may have been hoping to rival the success {{Creator/Disney}} had enjoyed with the [[UsefulNotes/DisneyRenaissance Renaissance]] of the 1990s. Unfortunately the film failed to equal ''Prince of Egypt'' commercially and critically, receiving a lukewarm evaluation and becoming a BoxOfficeBomb, and it marked the beginning of the end for the [=DreamWorks=]' era of traditional animation.

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Only the second traditionally animated feature-length offering from [=DreamWorks=], after ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt''. The studio may have been hoping to rival the success {{Creator/Disney}} had enjoyed with the [[UsefulNotes/DisneyRenaissance Renaissance]] of the 1990s. Unfortunately the film failed to equal ''Prince of Egypt'' commercially and critically, receiving a lukewarm evaluation and becoming a BoxOfficeBomb, and it marked the beginning of the end for the [=DreamWorks=]' [=DreamWorks=] era of traditional animation.
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Only the second traditionally animated feature-length offering from [=DreamWorks=], after ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt''. The studio may have been hoping to rival the success {{Creator/Disney}} had enjoyed with the [[UsefulNotes/DisneyRenaissance Renaissance]] of the 1990s. Unfortunately the film [[BoxOfficeBomb failed to equal]] ''Prince of Egypt'' commercially and critically, and [=DreamWorks=], after releasing the DirectToVideo ''WesternAnimation/JosephKingOfDreams'' and the theater-released [[ScrewedByTheNetwork (but barely advertised)]] ''WesternAnimation/SpiritStallionOfTheCimarron'' and ''WesternAnimation/SinbadLegendOfTheSevenSeas,'' thereafter wholeheartedly embraced computer animation.

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Only the second traditionally animated feature-length offering from [=DreamWorks=], after ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt''. The studio may have been hoping to rival the success {{Creator/Disney}} had enjoyed with the [[UsefulNotes/DisneyRenaissance Renaissance]] of the 1990s. Unfortunately the film [[BoxOfficeBomb failed to equal]] equal ''Prince of Egypt'' commercially and critically, receiving a lukewarm evaluation and [=DreamWorks=], after releasing becoming a BoxOfficeBomb, and it marked the DirectToVideo ''WesternAnimation/JosephKingOfDreams'' and beginning of the theater-released [[ScrewedByTheNetwork (but barely advertised)]] ''WesternAnimation/SpiritStallionOfTheCimarron'' and ''WesternAnimation/SinbadLegendOfTheSevenSeas,'' thereafter wholeheartedly embraced computer animation.
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* HopeSpot: At the beginning, Tulio and Miguel win the map to El Dorado using normal dices, making it look like they will get away without any troubles. But when they collect their wins, Tulio's loaded dice drop out, and their opponent and everyone around realize that they have been cheating all along, and are thus ready to beat them up for it. The duo has to fake a sword fight against each other to escape.
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* MsFanservice: Chel. She wear a very skimpy outfit, has huge hips (as demonstrated in a ball-game scene) and openly seduces one of the male MainCharacters.

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* InLoveWithTheMark: Miguel starts to fall in love with the lifestyle he is living by [[GodGuise pretending to be a god]], while Tulio falls in love with Chel, the native girl helping them pull of their con. This causes to tension between the two of them, as each thinks the other is losing sight of the original plan, and leads to this exchange:

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* InLoveWithTheMark: Miguel starts to fall in love with the lifestyle he is living by [[GodGuise pretending to be a god]], while Tulio falls in love with Chel, the native girl helping them pull of off their con. This causes to tension between the two of them, as each thinks the other is losing sight of the original plan, and leads to this exchange:
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* AbsurdlyLongStairway: The highest temple reserved for the highest of status of course has a very long stairway up to the room at top, and while Tzekel-Kan and the Chief can climb them no problem due to being natives, Tulio and Miguel are out of breath when they reach the top.
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* InfantilizationRetaliation: While pretending to be a god to the people in El Dorado, ConArtist Tulio tries to tickle a toddler's chin but receives a good chomp on the hand in response.

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