Tad, The Lost Explorer

Tad, The Lost Explorer Spanish Las Aventuras de Tadeo Jones is a 2012 Spanish 3D computeranimated adventure comedy film directed by Enrique Gato. The film is the outgrowth of Gatos 2004 short film, Tadeo Jones and its sequel Tadeo Jones and the Basement of Doom. It was written by Javier Barreira, Gorka Magalln, Ignacio del Moral, Jordi Gasull and Neil Landau. The films music was composed by Zacaras M. de la Riva. The English cast features voices of Kerry Shale, Ariel Winter, Bruce Mackinnon, Mac McDonald, Liza Ross, Cheech Marin and Adam Jones. The film was produced by Telecinco Cinema, El Toro Picture, Lightbox Entertainment, Ikiru Films, Telefnica Producciones, and Media Networks, with the participation of AXN, Canal Plus and TVC.

Tadeo Stone voiced in English by Kerry Shale is a bricklayer from Spain who lives in Chicago, working on the construction of the citys subway. Ever since he was five years, he has dreamed of being a professional archaeologist. After being fired from his job as a bricklayer for daydreaming and for his dog urinating on the construction foreman, Tad visits his friend Professor Humbert voiced by Mac McDonald, asking for the professors help in investigating an apparently vintage bottle of CocaCola Tad found on the construction site. The professor receives a letter from his friend Professor Lavrof summoning him to Peru to reunite his half of a stone key that will unlock the legendary Incan city of Paititi. Arriving at the airport, Professor Humbert suffers an accident after taking the wrong pills and is taken to the hospital. Meanwhile, a member of the nefarious firm Odysseus Inc. is spying on them and sends the photo to the other members who are in the Sechura Desert.Tad takes the professors place and, along with his dog Jeff, travels from Chicago to Cusco, Peru. in the Cusco airport Tad meets Freddy voiced by Cheech Marin, a local hustler. Tad is kidnapped by men from Odysseus, who threaten him to give them the stone key, but Tad is saved by Freddy and Sara voiced by Ariel Winter, Professor Lavrovs daughter. After joining the two halves of the key, the group travels to Machu Picchu to meet up with Lavrov also voiced by McDonald. Odysseus Inc., led by the evil Kopponen, also voiced by Kerry Shale again tries to steal the key, but Sara and Tad escape their clutches. ........

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