![]() ![]() Children should find it amusing enough, but there is little appeal for adults here, and its jokes tend to fall flat given they mostly derive from the annoying, nonsensical character that is Mummy. Tad dreams of becoming an archaeologist traveling the world, uncovering hidden secrets and lost treasure, but his job working construction keeps him daydreaming instead of exploring. Overall though, the film’s frivolous, cartoony nature, whereby it is full of plot holes and questionable logic (yes, even by an animation's standard), is more irksome than winsome. Once you get past the lack of context, the characters are pretty by-the-numbers and plot is simple and concise enough to follow. Tad Jones, the most awkward explorer, must rescue his beloved Sara from a millionaire who is looking for King Midas necklace. With Michelle Jenner, Adriana Ugarte, Óscar Barberán, Luis Posada. Only upon reading about the movie’s background does one learn that the film is actually a sequel to the Spanish animation Tad the Lost Explorer, which explains the ridiculously long movie title, and which was a big hit six years ago when it made €45 million in the box office against a €8 million budget. Tad, the Lost Explorer, and the Secret of King Midas: Directed by David Alonso, Enrique Gato. Indeed, where Mummy comes from is barely established and why his annoying, neurotic tendencies are put up with is a mystery. Tad the Lost Explorer and the Secret of King Midas starts off awfully confusingly to say the least, as it presents little to no explanation of how Sara and Tad know one another and how they’ve come to know this Mummy character. The only way that Tad can save her is to team up with her scholar, Tiffany, dog Jeff, Sara’s parrot Belzoni, and Mummy (an actual mummy) to find Sara and the pieces that make up Midas’ necklace. Sara’s research confirms the existence and whereabouts of King Midas’ necklace, which gives its wearer God-like powers, but at the exposition, Sara is kidnapped. ![]() When Sara invites Tad, who is an old friend, to a presentation of her latest research, he jumps at the opportunity. A construction worker studying archaeology named Tad Jones is hopelessly besotted with Sara, a world famous archaeologist and explorer.
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