While most of us groan whenever yet another adaptation is announced, we’re entering a whole new era of them. Whereas studios would throw so many different incarnations of popular properties at the wall to see what stuck in the past few decades sometimes with wildly different tones, we’re now at the point where said studios are sick of losing tens of millions of dollars, rebooting the same characters ten times over. Instead, why not throw a decent amount of change in Dora’s case, $40 million dollars at a project to get it right the first time pleasing existing fans and garnering new ones in the process. At least then there’s room to build. Dora and the Lost City of Gold does just that, taking the decidedly very G-rated cartoon and morphing it into a slightly more grown-up PG live-action adaptation. Eva Longoria, Michael Peña, and Isabela Moner in Dora and the Lost City of Gold 2019 The setup seems like it merits those same groans but quickly evolves. The gist is that Dora’s parents Michael Peña, Eva Longoria, who have homeschooled her all her life and trained her I the ways of an adventurer, send her off to public high school. This is exactly what I’m referring to above there was a chance that in decades past, the entire film would take place in said school, groan-worthy jokes and all. Thankfully they only use this period to set up Dora’s character, which all feels endearing in a way that’s extremely Elf2003-like. Dora congratulates her cafeteria staff for making something as amazing as mac & cheese in the same way Buddy celebrates “the world’s best cup of coffee,” but with an actual child-like innocence played straightly by Isabela Moner as our titular hero. The production team kind of doesn’t let up from there, as there are many cartoon aspects spliced into The Lost City of Gold’s DNA, including two literal cartoons Boots the monkey and Swiper the Fox. And by the way, when Swiper appears on-screen and just kind of talks, with zero explanation or magical lore-based reason, it’s incredible. The same goes for a surprise that I won’t mention here all of which help prevent Dora from being an edgy reboot or something that barely resembles its source material. Isabela Moner in Dora and the Lost City of Gold 2019 I’m glad they don’t dwell on the whole fish out of water thing for long, as the school motif is short-lived. We get to see Dora in a classroom setting, briefly at a dance, and then she and her friends are whisked away into a PG-Tomb Raider with constant mentions of death and some semi-harrowing situations. The second set crew has a chance to shine here with some great aerial shots, adding a nice element of practicality to a film with two computer-generated major characters. Don’t get too excited though, as this is still a family production filled to the brim with hokey jokes and performances of varying quality. A lot of the big talent is relegated to part-time roles, and while Moner is up to the task of carrying the film, she doesn’t get a lot of help especially from most of the adult cast. There are moments where they really commit with some jokes that elevate it above reactions that just involve kids snorting in a theatre, and there are parts where you’re kind of scratching your head wondering why they went the way they did. Dora probably isn’t going to sway any adults who aren’t into films aimed at younger audiences, but for everyone else, it’ll go down as one of the better family films and adaptations really in recent years. Dora is a great character and they did her justice.
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Genre Family, Adventure. Length: 102 minutes. Release date: 19/09/2019. 8+. Dora and the Lost City of Gold is a live-action movie based on the cartoon exploits of Dora the Explorer. This movie’s Dora is a pre-teen, leaving her jungle home for a city high school. There are plenty of themes and plot points to appeal to a pre-teen audience, as
Dora the Explorer was 7 years old when audiences met her on television, a sing-songy polymath who traveled the map seeking answers and solving puzzles, accompanied by a big-mouthed backpack and an equally loquacious monkey, Boots. Nearly 20 years have passed since the adventure show first aired enough to cultivate a massive global awareness, but only 10 in Dora’s world, which means her live-action debut, director James Bobin’s “Dora and the Lost City of Gold,” gives audiences of all ages the chance to see the character — whose unquenchable thirst for education knows no bounds — face the ultimate test adjusting to an American high school. If that sounds like a pretext for a snappy, self-parodying TV-to-film adaptation — something in the vein of “21 Jump Street” or “The Dukes of Hazzard,” perhaps — think again. Yes, the movie is postmodern enough to acknowledge that there’s something odd about Dora’s penchant for breaking the fourth wall as when she turns and asks the audience, “Can you say delicioso’?” and composing spontaneous songs for any occasion. But the most endearing quality of Nicholas Stoller and Matthew Robinson’s script — not counting that they didn’t try to whitewash their Latina heroine — is the way it permits Dora to remain indefatigably upbeat no matter what the situation, whether navigating treacherous Incan temples or facing an auditorium of jeering teenage peers. Even Indiana Jones gets nervous. But not Dora played here by Isabela Moner, who quips, “If you just believe in yourself, anything is possible,” before plummeting down a dangerous chasm, effectively demonstrating that positivity will only take one so far. Raised in the jungle by a pair of archaeology professors Eva Longoria and Michael Peña, Dora is sent off to attend high school in Los Angeles with her cousin Diego Jeff Wahlberg just as her parents set out to find the legendary city of Parapata. She would rather join them on the expedition, but for the film’s purposes, it’s far more interesting to see how Dora handles what we might call the “real world” — which is to say, public school metal detectors, a modest teen-friendly makeover and the humiliation of hazing. By confronting Dora with such indignities, the movie cleverly illustrates what she’s made of, while also giving her the chance to assemble a small posse of fellow outcasts, including formerly undisputed class smarty-pants Sammy Madeleine Madden, who’s instantly threatened by Dora’s intelligence, and the ultra-awkward Randy Nicholas Coombe, a typically Nickelodeon stereotype with weird hair and a virtually asexual screen chemistry. Together with Diego, these three wind up kidnapped and shipped back to South America, where a trustworthy adult named Alejandro Eugenio Derbez helps them escape. Now all the kids need to do is find Dora’s parents before the bad guys get to Parapata. So far, so basic. Still, it’s important to keep in mind that the target audience won’t have seen the countless jungle adventure movies that “Dora and the Lost City of Gold” is actively recycling — and even then, the genre dates back so many decades, even the previous generations’ reference points be they Allan Quatermain and Indiana Jones movies or more recent “Jumanji” and Tarzan remakes were effectively pieced together from earlier examples of the same. More important for them will be the question of how this live-action adaptation chooses to treat their favorite elements of the cartoon. How, for instance, do you handle a talking backpack? The answer Treat it as a bottomless utility sack, but scrap the ability to speak. Preschoolers love Swiper, the series’ sneaky fox antagonist voiced here by Benicio Del Toro, but will older audiences accept a computer-animated version of this silly character? And what’s the best way to reboot Boots, Dora’s simian companion? Unlike Disney’s recent “Aladdin” update, in which a too-realistic Abu wasn’t nearly as cute as his cartoon counterpart, the new-and-improved Boots maintains the original’s blue fur and exaggerated features, but looks right for the hyper-stylized jungle environment. Though DP Javier Aguirresarobe “Thor Ragnarok” makes those fantasy landscapes appear suitably lavish, director Bobin has wisely decided not to strive for realism here — an artistic choice that makes the frequently unconvincing visual effects seem more endearing than disappointing. That pays off particularly well in a field of enormous pink flowers, which trigger a hallucination many will consider the film’s high point. Whereas most of the cast and especially Derbez play broad, borderline-slapstick versions of their characters, Moner has the wide eyes and ever-chipper attitude we associate with Dora, but adds a level of charisma the animated character couldn’t convey. Previously featured in “Instant Family” and “Transformers The Last Knight,” the young actress shows obvious star potential, to the extent one hopes this film will be enough of a hit that we can watch her grow up to be a more naturally proportioned — but no less exciting — role model than Lara Croft. “Dora and the Lost City of Gold” goes out of its way to establish that the character isn’t a tomb raider or a treasure hunter, but rather an explorer, risking her life for the love of knowledge. That ranks her as perhaps the most “woke” big-screen adventurer since the invention of cinema, making Indy’s indignant “That belongs in a museum!” seem so 20th century by comparison. As Dora and her friends sing over the end credits, “We came together; that’s the real treasure.” Sure, it’s nice to see Dora make some friends she always got along fine by herself in the jungle, but discovers loneliness when she moves to Los Angeles, but that corny lyric all but dismisses their entire adventure. Even so, there’s something to be said for the way the movie rewards not just intelligence but cultural curiosity, while never making a big deal of race. Dora just so happens to know a lot of things, including three languages English, Spanish and Quechua, the indigenous tongue spoken by the guardians of Parapata. It’s a welcome surprise to see Native actress Q’orianka Kilcher, who played Pocahontas in Terrence Malick’s “The New World,” pop up as one of these Incan stewards. The “Dora the Explorer” TV show is famous for its puzzles, during which Dora demands the audience’s participation. The movie is relatively weak in this department, serving up “National Treasure”-esque riddles and “Goonies”-like water slides for kids too young to have seen those movies. But when it comes time for Dora to solve the climactic test — she’s asked to make a sacrifice “of that which is most valuable” — we realize just how solid her values are. While the film may be rudimentary in many respects, it would also be fair to say it represents a certain hope for the future When interacting with younger generations, it can be encouraging to discover that they haven’t necessarily been indoctrinated with the same biases as their parents, and in many cases, they seem instinctively more sensitive as a result. Maybe we could learn something from Dora after all.
Doraand the Lost City of Gold is a Dora the Explorer movie. The movie was released on August 9, 2019, by Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies. The story centers around Dora as a teenager who moves to the city to live
Starring Adriana Barraza, Alice Lanesbury, Benicio Del Toro, Caillou Pettis, Carol Walker, Christopher Kirby, Danny Trejo, Dee Bradley Baker, Eric Cortez, Eugenio Derbez, Eva Longoria, Haley Tju, Isabela Moner, Isela Vega, Jeffrey Wahlberg, Justin Joseph Bieber, Lyric Wilson, Madeleine Madden, Madelyn Miranda, Malachi Barton, Marc Weiner, Michael Peña, Micke Moreno, Natasa Ristic, Nicholas Coombe, Q'orianka Kilcher, Sasha Toro, Temuera Morrison Summary Having spent most of her life exploring the jungle with her parents, nothing could prepare Dora Isabela Moner for her most dangerous adventure ever – High School. Always the explorer, Dora quickly finds herself leading Boots her best friend, a monkey, Diego Jeffrey Wahlberg, a mysterious jungle inhabitant Eugenio Derbez, and a ragHaving spent most of her life exploring the jungle with her parents, nothing could prepare Dora Isabela Moner for her most dangerous adventure ever – High School. Always the explorer, Dora quickly finds herself leading Boots her best friend, a monkey, Diego Jeffrey Wahlberg, a mysterious jungle inhabitant Eugenio Derbez, and a rag tag group of teens on a live-action adventure to save her parents Eva Longoria, Michael Peña and solve the impossible mystery behind a lost city of gold.… Expand Genres Action, Adventure, Family Rating PG Runtime 102 min
Doraand the Lost City of Gold reminds me of old family-orientated adventure films like Flubber, Jumanji and Small Soldiers. The concepts may be different but that cheesy style combined with self-aware comedy and basic characterisation shine through and give the film some depth and personality. Dora settles into its groove early on and
Swiper No Swiping Dora and the Lost City of Gold feels like a niche film for a very specific audience. If you’re part of that audience, this is likely to be a wildly entertaining and hilarious family adventure. What it does, it does incredibly well with plenty of in-jokes from the cartoon and a handful of well written, goofy jokes that help keep the tone suitably light and adventurous. However, the lack of explanation around key Dora the Explorer concepts like the map and Swiper, along with very basic character arcs make this a film designed specifically for families and children who have grown up with Dora, rather than the average movie-goer. Beginning with a brief prologue including Dora and cousin Diego, the film skips forward in time as we see Dora separated from her cousin where he leaves the rainforest and heads off for the concrete jungle in Los Angeles. Growing into an adventurous but naive young woman, Dora is taken away from the rainforest at the request of her parents to stay with cousin Diego, who’s very much acclimatized to the harsh realities of the real world. Dressed in bright, vibrant colours, our naive young explorer finds herself struggling to adapt to this harsh, new world before being thrown back into the jungle again to save her parents from a greater threat that appears. From here the film sees Dora and a handful of misfits band together to try and save Dora’s parents, all whilst navigating treacherous traps, quicksand and a number of other nasty additions to the jungle. Dora and the Lost City of Gold reminds me of old family-orientated adventure films like Flubber, Jumanji and Small Soldiers. The concepts may be different but that cheesy style combined with self-aware comedy and basic characterisation shine through and give the film some depth and personality. Dora settles into its groove early on and throughout the film, the pacing is perfectly poised between fast action pieces and slower, comedic segments. The balance is handled really well here and throughout this 100 minute film, Dora never feels like it drags on unnecessarily. If you’ve grown up with kids obsessed with Dora the Explorer, Nickelodeon’s latest animated adaptation is for you. Instead of trying to appeal to everyone and failing spectacularly, Dora defiantly sticks to its target market and is all the stronger for it. It’s a classic, fun-filled family adventure with plenty of goofy jokes and well-written action pieces to keep things interesting. It’s certainly not for everyone and at times the special effects do feel cheaper than they perhaps should for the big screen. However, there’s enough jokes and subtle nods toward the source material here to make this the perfect example of how to adapt an animated children’s show whilst keeping the integrity and spirit of the original in check. Parents and kids will certainly love this but perhaps everyone else may not take to it quite so fondly. Click Here To Go Back To Our Film Reviews
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Nearly 20 years’ worth of tinies have grown up on the beloved Dora The Explorer’s TV cartoon jungle jaunts. But James Bobin’s cheery if wholesomely predictable live-action big-screen transplant takes a gently spoofing tone, getting knowing gags out of Dora’s Isabela Moner bottomless backpack and trademark smiley to-camera questions. When her explorer parents a doting Eva Longoria and Michael Peña flip her from the Amazon into a snobby LA high school, the film is on full comic mode, as knowledge-loving chirpy Dorka’ becomes a socially scorned misfit. But a Goonies-style old-school adventure kicks in when she and a group of classmates are kidnapped by mercenaries tracking her parent’s secret expedition to Parapata, the Incan City of the quarrelling, wisecracking teens pick their way fearfully through the Peruvian jungle, the film opts for a slapstick vibe, throwing head-scratching Inca puzzles, whooshy water-slide tunnels and booby-trapped temples at them. With the jeopardy strictly PG deadly quicksand is a riot of fart noises, the film’s playful aspect is its best side, milking CGI creations Boots the monkey voiced by Danny Trejo and the thieving Swiper the fox Benicio Del Toro for cosy it comes up short on the thrills and spills, Moner’s hilariously upbeat Dora is downright delightful, especially when forced to school her cooler compadres in the jungle’s secrets. Parents will appreciate the snappy-not-sappy eco messages and pro-learning stance, firmly on the side of the team player rather than the tomb raider.
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Now a young adult, the former kid explorer named Dora is big on adventure and wildlife in the new live-action film Dora and the Lost City of Gold. Mostly getting rid of the childish themes of the hit animated show, this now teenage Dora journeys to the dark side of the jungle in order to save the day and her family while navigating traps, villains and a water slide that is eerily reminiscent of The Goonies. No matter how action-packed director James Bobin The Muppets tried to make this adaptation, it never grows past a five-year-old level, despite some phenomenal set pieces. In other words, the film takes no chances on being edgy or growing up with Dora herself, instead, the film relies on the safe way of delivering dialogue and cartoonish action sequences that would only excite super young fans of the show. The 16-year-old Dora Isabela Moner lives with her parents Eva Longoria and Michael Pena in the jungle inside a luxurious jungle abode. Even though she's been raised in the wild by her animal friends and parents, she is set to Los Angeles to a city high school. She doesn't take to city life very well due to her awkward know-it-all nature, but she makes a friend or three and eventually Dora and her three classmates are sent back to Dora's parent's place in Peru to search for The City of Lost Gold. That's where Alejandro iconic actor Eugenio Derbez enters the picture as the flamboyant bad guy that never seems to be an enemy, but more of a slight nuisance. I know themes are light-hearted in the film, but to amp up any sort of conflict or suspense, the villain should be as good as its protagonist, which it never is here. Dora and the Lost City of Gold is not a good film. Each bit of adventure, drama, and suspense or lack thereof falls flat and vanishes immediately into thin air. Every henchman or foe that crosses paths with the teens is easily knocked down with no real fight or anxiety. The animated Lion King movie is more likely to give kids nightmares than this film. In addition to that, the performances border on silly self-awareness and being over-the-top in every scene. It becomes tiresome quickly. The one element that has worked well in the film is the elaborate and practical set pieces, which look top-notch and beautiful. The jungle never looked so bright and prosperous before with big stone structures, tons of trees and wildlife, and other mysteries along with way. It brought that old nostalgic feel of real-life sets back to the films and left a lot of the CGI at the door, with the exception of Dora's animal friends. For trying to be a hip, young adult feature film and furthering the story of Dora, this Lost City of Gold never pushes any boundaries, let alone step within 50 feet of them. The result is a movie that wants to attract all ages, especially the teen audiences, but could only muster a toddler's attention span for a few minutes. It's painful to get through and that's unfortunate because this could've been that start of a bigger franchise with a little grit. Vital Disc Stats The Blu-ray Paramount swings Dora and the Lost City of Gold to Blu-ray + DVD + Digital. The discs are housed in a blue plastic case with a cardboard sleeve featuring the entire cast Inside, you'll find the digital code that you can download for iTunes.
Thesecond trailer for Nickelodeon's Dora and the Lost City of Gold live-action film has arrived, and with it comes the debut of Swiper (voiced by Benicio del Toro), new story details and fart jokes.. The film is a continuation of sorts of the animated series, which ran from 2004 to 2014 on Nick Jr. The movie sees Dora beginning high school only to depart to South
At first blush, a feature film based on the Nick Jr. cartoon Dora the Explorer seems like a non-starter. The show, designed to help preschoolers grasp Spanish-language terms for English phrases, doesn't scream out for the cinematic treatment, and definitely not the live-action feature treatment. Yet such a film now exists Dora and the Lost City of Gold both manages to broadly acknowledge its inspiration while cutting its own path as a tween-friendly version of Indiana Jones. It's a surprisingly funny blend of fish-out-of-water comedy and adventure, even if the familiarity is hard to of a brief prologue, the Dora we spend time with is no little kid — she's a 16-year old who's being unhappily uprooted from her home in the jungle by her loving parents Eva Longoria and Michael Pena, who go off on a journey of their own as they encourage Dora to explore what it's like to be an average high-schooler in Los Angeles. Dora's expertise in the jungles of South America, though, leave her ill-equipped to handle the vagaries of high school. Her ebullient spirit is at odds with the dismissive nature of the average high-schooler, as represented by her cousin Diego Jeff Wahlberg. However, she, Diego, and two other high-schoolers are soon abducted while on a field trip, forced by a series of treasure hunters to find a mythical city of gold...the same one her parents are searching signs of an unexpectedly goofy movie are present before you even meet Dora — after the studio logo, there's a pre-title card warning that the film we're about to see is mostly accurate, except for the implication that foxes like to swipe things. Perhaps the strangest, most off-kilter casting choice here is a loopy-sounding Benicio del Toro as the sneaky Swiper. Director James Bobin and co-writer Nicholas Stoller collaborated on the two Muppet movies of the 2010s, and a similar sense of wry charm is present through Dora and the Lost City of Gold. The film mostly sidesteps the way the TV series looks or sounds, but there are a couple of goofy, fourth-wall-breaking gags where Dora asks us to repeat certain phrases to no avail. And Dora's struggles in the big city to balance her own jungle-driven savvy with, for example, the fact that no other high-schooler would bring a flare with them to class make for a good amount of the four kids are stuck in the jungle, they're paired with the rubbery-faced Eugenio Derbez, as Alejandro, a linguistics professor with ties to Dora's folks. Derbez's shtick varies between seeming mildly funny and mildly exhausting; the few times he gets to do all the heavy lifting, the comedy feels a bit forced. There's one specific gag involving quicksand that, depending on your mileage, may make you laugh your head off, or may make you wish that the scene would just end. As in the rest of the film, the charm largely lies with the younger actors. As the teenage Dora, Isabela Moner is the right mix of winning and a bit weird. Though the script co-written by Stoller and Matthew Robinson leads Dora to a predictable place of accepting herself for who she is even as she gains friends, Moner makes the journey feel less rote than unique. Wahlberg — who is Mark's nephew — is a nice foil for Moner, as the teenage Diego can't decide if he's charmed or perpetually embarrassed by his enthusiastic fun of Dora and the Lost City of Gold lies in the journey, not the destination. Once the eponymous mysterious location is discovered, because of course it is, the film becomes a most remarkable riff on the Indiana Jones franchise. The phrase "most remarkable" here is meant to imply that Dora becomes either a loving homage or a straight-up rip-off of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Since both The Last Crusade and The Lost City of Gold were released by Paramount Pictures, I suppose we'll stick with homage. Fans of the third film in the Harrison Ford-led franchise will recognize...well, a lot of its climax here, down to similar punchlines even if the bad guys don't meet deliciously nasty and the Lost City of Gold is charming enough, even as its conclusion smacks of overfamiliarity. A live-action/CGI mix inspired by a preschool animated show doesn't seem like the kind of movie that would even be remotely tolerable. Yet a winning lead performance, coupled with a slightly cheeky and anarchic storytelling style, are enough to withstand plotting that owes an unpayable debt to the most famous movie adventurer of the modern age. Dora and the Lost City of Gold has no right being as charming and fun as it is, but there's nothing wrong with a pleasant surprise in the dog days of summer./Film Rating 6 out of 10
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