Where The Lion King, with its vague African underpinning, felt as if it was designed for the film itself, the music on never quite evokes the South America of the film. However, in this case, 'classicist' means a classic record, not an old-fashioned movie musical. To the credit of John and Rice, they do their very best, crafting a song-score that is, in and odd way, as classicist as the film itself.
With an adventure like The Road to El Dorado, the songs don't fit as naturally into the scheme of things. Yes, characters still sang songs within the film itself, but The Lion King's music seemed organic, an outgrowth of setting and character. Since it was a fairly straight-ahead story, it didn't really lend itself to music the way The Lion King did. The film John and Rice wrote songs for was The Road to El Dorado, a contemporary Hope-and-Crosby-styled adventure featuring the voices of and Kevin Branagh. This time, it was for Dreamworks, the Spielberg-Geffen-Katzenberg studio that competed with Disney's animated division by offering intelligent, distinctive animated alternatives to Disney's occasionally formulaic work. As it turns out, it was another animated film. Given that his collaboration with lyricist on the Disney animated film The Lion King was 's most popular and acclaimed work of the '90s - not only topping the charts, but inspiring a Broadway musical - it made perfect sense for John to find another project for him and Rice.
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