Always as eager to become an archaeologist, Tadeo Jones (Tad Stones in VF) accompanies his girlfriend Sara Lavrof – any resemblance to Lara Croft is anything but fortuitous – during an excavation campaign in an Inca temple in Mexico. But, still just as clumsy, he gets fired by the expedition leader, when he has just discovered an Egyptian sarcophagus. Back home in Chicago, Tad is reunited with his old pal Mummy and is contacted by Victoria Moon, an occult specialist, who puts him on the trail of a mysterious emerald tablet that is said to be hiding near the pyramids of Egypt…
Mexican temples, Parisian Louvre, Egyptian pyramids… Tad is touring the world for his third feature film following Tad the Explorer: In Search of the Lost City in 2012 and the very weak Tad et le Secret du roi Midas in 2017. Imagined by the Spaniard Enrique Gato in 2006 in his first animated short (awarded a Goya for best short, just like his second short in 2008), this successful hero of European animated cinema continues to crisscross the planet in search of the most mysterious artifacts to try to prove to the world that he is a great archaeologist. No surprises at the rendezvous. The recipe is always the same: parody Indiana Jones films – with all the nods to the adventurer’s gimmicks -, by copying the 3D animation formula of American studios, Pixar in mind. In short, a lazy cartoon.
Tad the Explorer and the Emerald Table Animation By Enrique Gato Script Manuel Burque With the French voices of Philippe Bozo, Guillaume Lebon… Duration 1h30.
