TAD THE LOST EXPLORER AND THE CURSE OF THE MUMMY (2022) Reviews of animated comedy adventure

  

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Tad the Lost Explorer and the Curse of the Mummy is a 2022 Spanish animated comedy film about the titular character’s adventures. Also released as Tad the Lost Explorer and the Emerald Tablet

Directed by Enrique Gato from a screenplay co-written by Manuel Burque and Josep Gatell. English version by Neil Landau.

Produced by Álvaro Augustin, Ghislain Barrois, Nicolás Matji, Edmon Roch, Marc Sabé and Javier Ugarte.

Plot:
Tad’s biggest dream is to be accepted by his archaeology colleagues, but his accident-prone nature gets in his way. When he inadvertently destroys a rare sarcophagus, a spell is cast putting his friends’ lives in danger. Saving Mummy, Jeff and Belzoni will lead Tad and Sara to travel to the far corners of the world to find a way to stop the curse of the Emerald Tablet…

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Reviews:
” …the pair’s standard-issue 200mph quest for some curse-lifting doodad sporadically tosses up inventive and dynamic design in its wake: lots of secret doors, artefacts and hieroglyphs to puzzle over, and a fun mid-film chase along the Seine involving a motorised bathtub and an odd-landing Notre-Dame joke. (Too soon, surely.) This is never more than inessential screen filler, but agreeably jolly with it…” 3 out of 5, The Guardian

“Overall, this is a marked improvement on the earlier, second film Tad The Lost Explorer and the Secret of King Midas (Enrique Gato, 2017), which also got a UK theatrical release, demonstrating that the Spanish are perfectly capable of making anything as good as (or better than) your average, contemporary, Hollywood blockbuster family animation. Far more fun than anyone – well, this writer at least – expected…” Jeremy C. Processing

Release:
September 9, 2022.

Trailer:

Voice cast and characters:
Óscar Barberán … Tad
Luis Posada … Mummy
Michelle Jenner
Anuska Alborg … Ramona
Alexandra Jiménez … Victoria
Tito Valverde … Pickle
Cecilia Suárez … Ramirez
Berta Cortés … Ann
Pablo Gómez … Brian
José Corbacho … Ryu
Manuel Burque … Martin
Roser Aldabó … Emilia
Gloria González … Mrs. Wolfstrom
Marcel Navarro … Reporter
Claudio Serrano … Gendarme
Ben Cura … Rayan

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