Guitar Road To El Dorado Meme

The Road to El Dorado was innovative for its day. DreamWorks Animation's third film, created while the company was still defining its voice and purpose, is a buddy adventure in the vein of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby's Road to the Movies. The film has left an indelible digital legacy in the shape of GIFs and memes two decades after its premiere. It's not just the easily packaged screenshots; searching the El Dorado tag on Tumblr (last week, as its 20th anniversary approached, it crept up on the weekly Fandometrics buzz tracker) reveals fan art riffing on the film with other characters taking the roles of leads Tulio and Miguel, or the two of them swapped into the roles of different beloved characters. The film has evolved into a breeding ground for fandom crossovers.