IsDORA AND THE LOST CITY OF GOLD Video Review family friendly? Find out only at Movieguide. The Family and Christian Guide to Movie Reviews and Entertainment News. Dora’s grown up a bit since her seemingly perennial childhood through eight seasons on TV beginning in 2000 and her briefer tween years starting in 2009, but the audience will remain largely hormone-free for her big-screen debut in Dora and the Lost City of Gold. Except for some of the jargon and the interracial cast, this is a film whose sensibility and aesthetics lie squarely — in both senses of the word — in the 1950s. Imparting the air of having been highly sanitized and thoroughly rinsed, this late summer Paramount release is squeaky clean and unhip to an unusual degree, its commercial success resting all but exclusively on a built-in fan base. The Bottom Line A story about hormonal teens aimed at little kids. Release date Aug 09, 2019 Something seems off and far too Hollywood-ish from the very beginning, where we find the 16-year-old Dora the earnestly conscientious, rather mature and nothing if not lively Isabela Moner living with her zoologist mom Eva Longoria and archeologist dad Michael Pena in a deep jungle abode so luxurious and elaborate that it looks like something rich tourists would pay a few grand a night to stay in. Like Tarzan, Dora grew up in the jungle with animals as best friends but, unlike the fictional vine-swinger, she’s being sent to to study at Silverlake High. Dora has relatives to stay with, including good-looking cousin and all-around too-cool-for-school Diego Jeff Wahlberg, nephew of Mark. But she’s quickly deemed a weirdo, to Diego’s embarrassment, and piling on is the conceited, condescending Sammy Madeleine Madden, an intimidator who does all she can to make the newcomer’s life miserable at school. The only guy who takes to her is ultimate nerd Randy Nicholas Coombe, and it isn’t long before this ill-matched foursome finds itself transported from the Natural History Museum back to Dora’s parents’ place in Peru to renew the search for the titular destination. Of course, a bad guy, Alejandro Eugenio Derbez, worms his way into the mix, but by now it’s quite clear that the filmmakers never intend to try to present any real challenges or formidable foes that would generate genuine suspense or dramatic excitement. Although this franchise relies upon preteens for its core audience, upping the ages of its protagonists to a more hormonal demographic makes one imagine that prospective viewers have been exposed to at least mildly rugged Indiana Jones or Transformers-like action, to the extent that more eventful and exciting scenes could have been served up. In the action and suspense department, what director James Bobin The Muppets, Muppets Most Wanted, Alice Through the Looking Glass delivers here feels more like 1950s kiddie television. In essence, every dramatic goal is achieved far too easily, every opponent is ultimately made of straw. The characters are never truly challenged, as if the filmmakers are afraid that any credible peril might prove too frightening for some little kid. There’s nothing remotely akin to Bambi’s mother’s death here to disturb any youngster’s sleep. What keeps things alive, up to a point, is the imperturbable attitude of the titular heroine, who is invested with try-and-stop-me spirit by Moner, who’s actually 18 and looks it despite preventive measures. The same goes for Wahlberg, who’s 19. There’s a palpable gap you can’t help but notice between the essentially innocent, borderline-pubescent nature of the leading characters and the film itself, and the more confident and mature vibes emanating from the leading actors. The director seems to be trying to keep the hormones at bay, but there are some things you just can’t disguise, perhaps human nature first and foremost. Dora seems committed to projecting a pre-sexualized version of youth, while throbbing unacknowledged beneath the surface is something a bit more real, its presence rigorously ignored. To be believed, this story should have been set in 1955. Production company Burr! Productions Distributor Paramount Cast Isabel Moner, Eugenio Derbez, Michael Pena, Eva Longoria, Adriana Barraza, Temuera Morrison, Danny Trejo, Jeff Wahlberg, Nicholas Coombie, Madeleine Madden, Q’Orianka Kilcher, Christopher Kirby, Isela Vega Director James Bobin Screenwriters Nicholas Stoller, Matthew Robinson, story by Tom Wheeler, Nicholas Stoller; based on the television series Dora the Explorer by Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh Valdes and Eric Weiner Producer Kirstin Burr Executive producers Julia Pastor, Eugenio Derbez, John G. Scotti Director of photography Javier Aguirresarobe Production designer Dan Hennah Costume designer Rahel Afiley Editor Mark Everson Music John Debney, Germaine Franco Casting Sarah Halley Finn Rated PG, 103 minutes Ifthe original Nickelodeon series taught the incredibly young to see the world as an embracement of culture and learning, then Dora And The Lost City Of Gold expands marvellously upon that premise, even finding a way to send itself up in the process, and with superb performances by Nicholas Coombe as Dora’s friend Randy, Michael Pena and the 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.

Ithas now branched out and become a live action film titled Dora and the Lost City of Gold. The live-action film starts off with a young Dora (Madelyn Miranda) playing with her cousin Diego (Malachi Barton) and their fury monkey friend, Boots. The two young children share a wide range of imagination of exploring and adventure.

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.
FilmReview: ‘Dora and the Lost City of Gold’. More of a role model than you might imagine, the preschool cartoon character spells hope for a new generation in her first live-action adventure
Isabela Moner deftly updates the animated heroine in a film that, after a shaky start, hits the right notes of fun and cultural specificity Paramount When “Dora the Explorer” made her debut on Nickelodeon in 2000, she not only became the first animated Latina character in a leading role but also birthed what would become the longest-running American TV show that featured characters speaking Spanish. The show is still running on Nickelodeon with new episodes. Nineteen years later, Dora gets the live-action treatment in “Dora and the Lost City of Gold,” and despite an awkward first act, the film harkens back to the family-adventure genre that today’s parents can recall from their own childhoods. Dora Isabela Moner, “Instant Family” and her parents Michael Peña and Eva Longoria have lived in the jungles of South America for all of Dora’s life. The jungle is her home, her school and her playground, and like many young teenagers she runs through her life documenting everything with a GoPro strapped on, speaking to an invisible audience about the wonders of exploring the rain forest. For over a decade, in between homeschooling Dora and creating a family life in the jungle, her professor parents have been searching for the lost Incan city of Parapata and have just found the key to its location somewhere in the jungles of Peru. Watch Video New 'Dora and the Lost City of Gold' Trailer Ends on Fart Jokes Wanting to keep Dora safe while they set off on a months-long exploration and also worried that perhaps she is a little socially inept, having never been around kids her own age, they send her to stay with her once-best friend, her cousin Diego Jeff Wahlberg, and his parents in Los Angeles, with only one piece of advice “Just be yourself.” And she tries. But the dangers of living among deadly animals and insects is a piece of cake compared to dealing with other teenagers. Feeling more isolated than ever before, Dora keeps in touch with her parents via a two-way radio that they use to update their daughter with their latest coordinates whenever they can. Suddenly, after months of constant communication, her parents go radio silent, which doesn’t alarm Dora until she, Diego and two kids from school end up getting kidnapped by booty-hunting mercenaries who want to use Dora to track her parents and, ultimately, to lead them to Parapata’s long-lost treasure. Watch Video 'Dora and the Lost City of Gold' Trailer Shows the Explorer Facing the Jungle of High School The entire first act of “Dora and the Lost City of Gold” plays as though screenwriters Nicholas Stoller “Night School” and Matthew Robinson “Monster Trucks” couldn’t decide what they wanted the film to be Is it coming-of-age story? A fish-out-of-water tale? A by-the-book play on the original TV series? Or is this supposed to be “Mean Girls” for Gen Z? The tone is so uneven at times that the Spanish which Peña, Longoria and Moner all speak fluently sounds forced — as if the screenwriters wanted to make a statement “See? This is a Latino family!” It’s only once the script remembers that the character started out as a little girl who loves to explore new places — and who just happens to be a Latina — that the film begins to breathe, making room to embrace zany characters like the mysterious Alejandro Eugenio Derbez, the fox Swiper voiced by Benicio Del Toro and the monkey Boots voiced by Danny Trejo, among others. Also Read Eva Longoria on ABC's 'Grand Hotel' and Flipping the Upstairs, Downstairs Genre on Its Head It’s then that director James Bobin shifts the film into something that simultaneously honors the original show while waxing nostalgic on 1980s kid-friendly adventure films like “The Goonies,” “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,” and even “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.” Thanks to his experience directing both “The Muppets” and “Muppets Most Wanted,” Bobin is no stranger to creating a world where it’s completely natural to have a bandana-wearing fox roaming around swiping things for a living. But much credit is due to Oscar-winning production designer Dan Hennah “Lord of The Rings”, who creates a South American jungle that can both serve family adventure and bend to a hyper-reality with an animated monkey on a whim. While the entire ensemble is fun to watch, it’s Moner who sells “Dora and the Lost City of Gold.” I’m no “Dora” expert, but I did spend many hours a day oh, so many watching the animated series with my daughter during her toddler and preschool years, so there’s an emotional connection between the character and my daughter’s childhood that I wasn’t certain Moner could maintain. Also Read Michael Peña to Play Mr Roarke in 'Fantasy Island' Film The biggest challenge of an actor in any live-action update of an animated character is to make an audience that is already loyal to the original fall in love with a newer rendition. And that’s exactly what Moner does; her Dora has the DNA of everything that made the original so special while offering a fresh take for newer generations experiencing the character for the first time. She captures Dora’s wide-eyed innocence with aplomb while also allowing her to be just a teenager. In the second half, the film not only deploys Spanish but also Quechua, an indigenous language of the Quechua peoples who live mainly in Peru. It may be a small thing, and one only someone of Peruvian heritage like myself might catch, but if Quechua hadn’t been spoken by the indigenous people Dora meets in the film, I am not so sure I would have been convinced by the story. Offering indigenous representation, especially in language, opens eyes to the origins of Latinx cultures, free from an Anglo or Westernized perspective, allowing characters like Dora and her family to become something Latinos of all ages can revere and enjoy.
FilmDora and the Lost City of Gold akan tayang di bioskop Indonesia pada 9 Agustus 2019. Seperti yang sudah kalian tahu, film ini diadaptasi dari serial animasi Dora the Explorer yang tayang di Nickelodeon
Review of Dora and the Lost City of Gold on You may be dreading the prospect of having to schlep with your kids to the multiplex to see “Dora and the Lost City of Gold.” The idea of sitting through a big-screen version of the long-running Nickelodeon series “Dora the Explorer” probably sounds like pure torture—even more facile messaging, rudimentary animation and sing-songy delivery for the littlest viewers. Sure, the show means well, and its emphasis on Latinx culture and bilingual education is essential, but a little goes a long way. At home, you can tune out, check your phone, fold some laundry, do anything else besides actually watch an entire episode of “Dora.” But I am here to tell you that you will be shockingly entertained. “Dora and the Lost City of Gold” manages to ride a fine line between being true to the characters and conventions of the series and affectionately skewering them. Director James Bobin and co-writer Nicholas Stoller, who previously collaborated on the most recent “Muppets” movies, achieve a similar sense of humor and tonal balance here. They’re making fun of the inherently surreal nature of the show without tipping all the way over into parody or cruelty. They recognize how insane it is that Dora’s friends include a talking backpack and map, for example, or that her chief adversary in the jungle, Swiper, is a fox wearing a bandit’s mask. But they also see the importance of celebrating a strong, confident little girl with a kind heart, resourceful mind and fearless spirit. Pulling off this tricky feat at the center of it all is the actress playing Dora herself, the magnetic Isabela Moner, whose performance is reminiscent of Amy Adams’ thoroughly delightful work in “Enchanted.” She’s giddy and guileless—borderline manic at times—and she has an unflappably sunny demeanor no matter the scenario. Whether she’s encountering a deadly, poisonous frog or digging a hole to help a friend relieve herself in the wilderness, she’s got a can-do attitude and likely a song for every occasion. But Moner is also in on the joke, bringing expert comic timing and just the right amount of a knowing wink to these perky proceedings. Following supporting roles in films including “Transformers The Last Knight” and “Sicario Day of the Soldado,” this is a star-making performance—so much so that it makes you wish the whole film were as good as she is. Dora has grown up in the Peruvian rainforest with her zoologist mother Eva Longoria and archaeologist father Michael Peña. It’s an idyllic existence that has sharpened her wits and fostered her curiosity, but it hasn’t exactly made her street smart. In fact, she’s never really had any other friends her age—or human friends, period—besides her cousin Diego, whom she hasn’t seen since she was a little girl. Now that she’s a teenager, her parents have decided to send her to Los Angeles to attend high school with Diego Jeff Wahlberg while they go on a dangerous mission to find the elusive, mysterious Parapata, the lost city of gold. Adriana Barraza, part of the strong Latinx cast, brings grace to the role of Dora and Diego’s abuelita. Dora’s fish-out-of-water antics are quickly and consistently amusing, whether she’s offering a cheery hello in English and Spanish to every stranger on the street or navigating the pitfalls of public-school adolescence. She’s so darn innocent and earnest, you can’t help but root for her—or at least hope she’ll survive. Wahlberg brings a deadpan humor as the increasingly mortified Diego, while Madeleine Madden plays the bossy queen bee who’s threatened by her smarts and Nicholas Coombe is the self-deprecating nerd who’s enamored of them. If only the story had remained in There’s plenty of material to mine there as Dora strives to find her way in such a vastly different environment while still staying true to herself. But the script from Stoller and Matthew Robinson contrives to send Dora, Diego, and their friends back to South America for a series of “Indiana Jones”-lite adventures. There, they team up with the frantic and grating Eugenio Derbez as a fellow explorer who’s also searching for Parapata. A series of “jungle puzzles,” as Coombes’ character calls them, causes the film to fall into a steady and episodic rhythm, which is a bit of a letdown compared to the lively and subversive nature of the first half. But if you’ve ever wondered what to do if you should find yourself stuck in quicksand, Dora has the answer to the dilemma—and every other one, for that matter. Christy Lemire Christy Lemire is a longtime film critic who has written for since 2013. 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TITLE Dora And The Lost City Of Gold DIRECTOR: James Bobin SCREENWRITER: Matthew Robinson, Nicholas Stoller STARS: Isabel Moner, Jeff Wahlberg, Benicio Del Toro, Eva Longoria, Michael Pena RUNTIME: 102 minutes CINEMATIC RELEASE DATES: Australia (19th September 2019), UK (16th August 2019), USA
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 Adaptedfrom the hit Nickelodeon series Dora the Explorer, Dora And The Lost City Of Gold brings the show’s iconic characters to life. The film mixes a 9F1KmW.
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