Tadeo the lost Explorer

"Tadeo the lost Explorer". One would think that coming from a country other than the United States an animated film for children could have the possibility of an internal search for originality and even identity. In fact it is thus in most cases, but not in this Spanish production winner of the Goya 2012 to the best animated production. The same director, Enrique Gato, has said (words plus words less) that the idea was to take these characters from a short made in 2004 and turn it into a feature film to help box office success, ensure the continuity of the production company, raise and do many more always in commercial plane. Well, if the objective is that, it is fulfilled. The script of "Tadeo, the lost explorer" takes, basically, the essence of Indiana Jones in parodic tone (although Indiana already was a luck of parody of the archeologists) to construct a conventional and effective adventure. In other words, imagine Dr. Jones, without money, without glamor, clumsy and with a very basic thought. A failure of optimism exacerbated because you never lose the adventurous spirit with which starts the initial scene with Tadeo child looking for treasures in the garden of his house. The years pass and they have him as a construction worker, only this time he will go, by accident, in search of an ancient city lost in Peru. This will be in the company of Sara Lavrof, "inspired" in the curvaceous Lara Croft of the video game Tomb Rider (another adventuress). There are villains, there are characters that bring the comic tone like Freddy, a Peruvian Indian who sells everything and, of course, a legend that could be reality. "Tadeo the lost explorer" is on the way to be an entertaining product, recommended for children (I would say up to 9 or 10 years old) and for those who accompany them to the cinema. It has the effectiveness of the narrative rhythm, the good dubbing works (why the mimicry of the lips will have been in English?) And some good gags when the mummy appears. It could be attributed lack of originality to give a soul to the characters instead of deliberately seeking the visual code to relate them to the already known (and successful). Perhaps some scenes are very close to plagiarism (the one of a round rock that rolls towards the characters that come running head-on, does it sound like it?), But they are details in which we could look at the ones that go to the movies a while ago. The boys are going to have a good time and in the process take some other message about perseverance. In short the ride is for them, the cinema is for another time.