Taglines: Explorer is her middle name.
Dora (Isabela Moner) is a girl grown up in nature. He spent most of his life exploring forests with his family and intertwined with nature. But now Dora has an adventure in front of her that scares her even more than the jungle, and she has no chance of escaping it. He has to go to high school now.
Always carrying the soul of an explorer, young Dora quickly finds friends. Monkey Boots, Diego’s best friend, and a bunch of rags soon become Dora’s best friend. The new group of friends embarks on a colorful adventure to save the young Dora’s family and solve the unpredictable mystery behind the lost Inca civilization.
Dora and the Lost City of Gold is a 2019 American adventure comedy film that is a live action adaptation of Nickelodeon’s television series Dora the Explorer and directed by James Bobin. The film stars Isabela Moner, Eugenio Derbez, Michael Peña, and Eva Longoria, with the voices of Danny Trejo and Benicio del Toro.
A live action Dora film was announced in 2017, and Moner was cast in the title role in May 2018. Most of the other lead cast members were hired throughout the rest of the year, and filming took place from August to December 2018 in Australia and Peru. This film is set after the events of the animated original television series. The film was theatrically released in the United States on August 9, 2019, by Paramount Pictures. It received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised Moner’s performance and the self-aware humor, and grossed $120 million worldwide.
About the Story
Deep in the Peruvian jungle, Dora (Madelyn Miranda), daughter of jungle explorers Cole (Michael Peña) and Elena (Eva Longoria), spends her days going on adventures with her monkey friend Boots (voiced by Danny Trejo), her cousin Diego (Malachi Barton), and imaginary friends Backpack (voiced by Sasha Toro) and Map (voiced by Marc Weiner) while thwarting Swiper (voiced by Benicio del Toro) the thieving fox. 7-year-old Diego and his family leave to Los Angeles while 6-year-old Dora and her parents remain searching for the hidden Inca city of gold Parapata.
After 10 years of exploring, Dora’s parents decipher the location of Parapata and choose to send Dora (Isabela Moner) to Diego’s high school in Los Angeles while they travel to the lost city. Staying with Diego (Jeff Wahlberg) and his family, Dora meets fellow students Sammy (Madeleine Madden) and Randy (Nicholas Coombe), but Diego considers her an embarrassment.
On a class field trip to a museum, Dora and the others are lured to its off-exhibit archives, where they are captured by mercenaries led by Powell (Temuera Morrison) who fly them to Peru. When they land, a man named Alejandro (Eugenio Derbez), who claims to be a friend of Dora’s parents, helps them escape. In the process, the mercenaries, aided by Swiper, steal Dora’s map. Alejandro reports that Dora’s parents have gone missing and that the mercenaries are searching for them in hopes of getting into Parapata and stealing its treasures. Dora resolves to find her parents first with Alejandro’s help, while the other teens come along in hopes of being rescued.
The group travels through numerous obstacles, including quicksand, Inca ruin puzzles, and attacks from forest guards of Parapata. After numerous hazards, Dora reaches her parents just outside the borders of Parapata, but Alejandro reveals he was the mercenaries leader all along and captures them. The other teens are caught as well, but Boots helps them escape. With Dora’s parents still prisoners, the teens decide to find the way inside Parapata in hopes of acquiring treasure that they can use to bargain for Elena and Cole’s release.
Inside the hidden city, Dora and the others solve its temple’s puzzles and dodge its traps, bringing them to the central shrine. Alejandro secretly follows them and attempts to steal its central idol himself, but instead falls into a trap. The soldiers guarding Parapata, led by their queen (Q’orianka Kilcher), defeat the mercenaries, and confront the teens. Dora speaks to them in Quechua, assuring that the kids only came for her parents and to learn. The Inca permit the teens and Dora’s family to leave, allowing them a glimpse of their greatest treasure.
Dora and The Lost City Of Gold (2019)
Directed by: James Bobin
Starring: Isabela Moner, Eva Longoria, Q’orianka Kilcher, Benicio Del Toro, Danny Trejo, Michael Peña, Eugenio Derbez, Temuera Morrison, Madeleine Madden, Jeffrey Wahlberg, Natasa Ristic
Screenplay by: Matthew Robinson
Production Design by: Dan Hennah
Cinematography by: Javier Aguirresarobe
Film Editing by: Mark Everson
Costume Design by: Rahel Afiley
Art Direction by: Richard Hobbs, Eugene Intas
Music by: John Debney, Germaine Franco
MPAA Rating: PG for action and some impolite humor.
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: August 9, 2019
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