Tad the Lost Explorer 2: Secret of King Midas

Tad the Lost Explorer 2: Secret of King Midas is a film of animation and adventure Spanish and the twenty-sixth Paramout Animation film directed by Enrique Gato and codirected by David Alonso and produced between film companies Ikiru Films, Telecinco Cinema , El Toro Pictures, Lightbox Entertainment and Telefónica Studios .  In the As in his first film , the second part of Tadeo Jones is starring animated characters Enrique Gato .

## Plotedit | edit source

Two years later of their first adventure, Tad Jones and Sara Lavrof have separate lives, he as a simple construction worker studying archaeology to graduate, and she as a renowned archaeologist and explorer. After discovering the final clue of the existence of King Midas' necklace, Sara invites Tad to an exposition in Las Vegas, where he hopes that she accepts turning in his girlfriend. Just before to travel, Tad realizes that the mummy of Paititi has been exiled from the Inca city by help him and he appears on his home, forcing Tad to travel Las Vegas with his dog Jeff and the mummy. But all hopes and dreams of Tad breaks when a millionaire named Jack Rackham kidnaps Sara to force her revealing the location of the three parts of Midas' necklace. Forming team with Tiffany (Sara's scholar), Mummy, the dog Jeff and Belzoni (Sara's pet, a grouch and intelligent bird who talks using show-bills), Tad Jones and his friends will travel around the world trying rescue Sara and defeat Rackham before he receives all power of necklace to turn in gold anything he touches.

## Cast

* Óscar Barberán as Tadeo Jones
* Michelle Jenner as Sara Lavrof
* Luis Posada as Momia
* José Corbacho as the taxi driver from Granada
* Adriana Ugarte as Tiffany Maze
* Miguel Ángel Jenner as Jack Rackham

## Production [ edit ]

Fountain of the lions of the Alhambra in Granada , where one of the scenes takes place.
After the commercial success of *The Adventures of Tadeo Jones* ,  Telecinco Cinema raised a second part of the film.  Valladolid director Enrique Gato , responsible for the film, continues to rely on the plot written by Gorka Magallón, Javier Barreira, Jordi Gasull, Ignacio del Moral and Neil Landau.

In May 2013, on his way through the Valladolid Book Fair , Gato took the opportunity to talk about his next projects with the press.  The creator of Tadeo revealed that "the scriptwriting team is in the pre-production phase."  However, he said that before *Tadeo 2* , preparing what will be his second feature film, *Catch the flag* , which is slated for release in late 2014.

The film was released in Spain on 25 August 2017.  David Bisbal and Tini Stoessel are the interpreters of the single film, under the title "Everything is possible".

The symphonic soundtrack is composed and orchestrated by Zacarías M. de la Riva , who already received a historic Goya nomination in 2013 for the music of *The Adventures of Tadeo Jones* , the first animated film to be nominated in this category. The soundtrack is the work of the Tenerife composer and conductor Diego Navarro, which was performed by the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra .  This composer was also the creator of the soundtrack for *Catch the Flag* .

Until March 2018, the film has raised € 19,932,203 and has been seen by 3,231,923 viewers in Spain.  Abroad, the film has grossed € 1,968,077.

The box office did not reach the world level resulting as a major failure to contain about changes and replacement of characters and changing scripts that seem without understanding the trauma, even in Latin America they receive negative reviews that both speak of the sequel and the distribution of the dubbing for changes that was not expected.