Puerta del tiempo (2002) Poster

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Attractive and entertaining cartoon movie based on cartoons and drawings by the great Antonio Mingote
ma-cortes13 August 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Amusing and fun film about time travels starred by two little protagonists . Two children, Paloma and Álvaro, are accidentally transported to the past, just when Don Isidro, the Puerta del Sol watchmaker, shows them the new machine he has built to study historical times. This machine on whose screen you can see times past also transports through time and space . But the restless Álvaro, messing around, gets into the big plasma screen. His sister follows him and the old inventor has no choice but to go after them . As they travel through different periods in the history of Spain, meeting famous and diverse personalities, as well as numerous dangers. The two children go through different periods of history in order to return to their time. Meanwhile, they are chased by a medieval magician who tries to reveal the secret of their trip .

Adventure cartoon movie in medium budget, stars two children who will start a fabulous journey that will take them from Prehistory to the Middle Ages, finding themselves in their busy adventure with the most incredible characters and the most unexpected surprises including their meeting with Paleolitic humans , Roman soldiers , King Juan I , young Cervantes Saavedra , and preventing the assassination of King Alfonso XII . This cartoon movie must be seen without prejudice, since it is not comparable to Hollywood productions but even with its flaws, clichés and others, it is nice to see how Spanish animation unfolds with projects like this. With the incentive and a more than worthy soundtrack, by the Canary composer/musical director Diego Navarro who conducted the Orquesta Clásica de La Laguna. A fine animated film, made almost by hand for four years between various studios well directed by Pedro Delgado who belongs to the prestigious dynasty Cruz Delgado of a long career in the cinematic and Television cartoons

This film pays tribute to the great graphic humorist Antonio Mingote , in fact the production designs , layout , storyboard and aesthetics as inspired or created by the cartoonist Antonio Mingote himself . He began his career as a graphic humorist in the magazine La Codorniz in 1946 at the hands of its director, Álvaro de Laiglesia. In 1948 he published his first novel, Las palmeras de cardboard, and on June 19, 1953 he began a collaboration with the newspaper ABC, which he continued until his death. Two years later, in 1955, he was entrusted with the direction of the humorous magazine Don José - belonging to the Tangier newspaper España - in which today eminent writers and cartoonists began to publish, and he directed it in its first hundred issues. Throughout his career he would also collaborate in other publications such as Moncayo, Reconquista or Revista Española de Defensa. In 1974 he wrote for the theater El Oso y el Madrileño, a musical magazine by Mario Clavel. The following year, 1975, he wrote the script for the hit television series Este Señor de Negro, directed by Antonio Mercero and performed by José Luis López Vázquez. He wrote screenplays for cinema, in collaboration with José Luis Dibildos, such as those for the films Single and Mother in Life, Growing Leg, Waning Skirt, Until Marriage Do Us Part or his political satire Vota a Gundisalvo. Later, he wrote his second novel, Adelita in her loft. In addition, between 1993 and 1995 he participated in the television program This country needs a review, by Telecinco, directed by José Luis Coll. In 1967, Prensa Española instituted an award named after Mingote, which was awarded to him in its first edition and which recognizes works of humor and graphic journalism. Today, the «Mingote Award» is one of the most prestigious, along with the «Mariano de Cavia» and the «Luca de Tena». Mingote's most eloquent and philosophical work, Man Alone, appeared in 1970. A few years later he published Astonished Man, where he is shocked by the incomprehensible records of human behavior . In 1987 he was appointed a member of the Royal Spanish Academy and took the "r" chair. His entrance speech, read in 1988, was about "The transition from humor from Madrid Cómico to La Codorniz." On May 24, 1996, he received the Gold Medal for Merit at Work, along with famous names, such as the writer Camilo José Cela and the poet Rafael Alberti.
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