This deeply ropey and unoriginal film is a feature animation from Spain: a sequel to a little-noticed 2012 film called Tad the Lost Explorer. To audiences used to the high quality of movies from Pixar, Disney or DreamWorks in the animation marketplace, Euro knockoff product like this generally looks groanworthy. So it proves once again.
As in the first film, this features a lovable construction worker called Tad who finds himself pursuing an archaeological mystery involving King Midas: he is dressed like Indiana Jones. Tad is in love with Sara Lavrof, the expert who made the discovery: she is dressed like Lara Croft. There is an almost unbearably unfunny “mummy” character – a wacky, bandaged figure risen from the dead to be their sidekick. It could be that this character’s intense unfunniness is a translation issue. But I doubt it. The storytelling, characterisation and animation are all mediocre.
