2012 · animation · comedy · adventure
Tad, the Lost Explorer
Directed by Enrique Gato1h 32m2012
Tad is a celebrity archaeologist and adventurer just like his hero Max Mordon... in his dreams! In reality, Tad is a Chicago construction worker. One day, however, he is mistaken for a real professor and takes his place on a flight to Peru in search of the lost city of Paititi.
Our read: Tad, the Lost Explorer (2012) reads as a cosy, breathless, grounded animation · comedy · adventure entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle animation / comedy, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- redemptive
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