Dora y la Ciudad Perdida

This live-action film adapts the well-known cartoons (2000-2019, 175 episodes) to the big screen, based on the popular children's series: Dora the Explorer. Dora is a little Hispanic girl with who goes on adventures with her red boot wearing monkey, conveniently named Boots. During her adventures we also get to meet her talking backpack (or la mochila) and the map who sings an annoyingly cute song. In the series Swiper manages to steal items from Dora and Boots, he exclaims "You'll never find it now!", but the stolen items are always found and retrieved within a few seconds. The main purpose of the TV show is to teach Spanish to English-speaking children. In the film Dora, played by Isabela Moner, is now 16 years old and is going to have to face the most powerful jungle: the High School. After 10 years of exploring, Dora's parents (Michael Peña, Eva Longoria) decipher the location of Parapata and choose to send a now 16-year-old Dora (Isabela Moner) to Diego's high school in Los Angeles while they travel to the lost city. Staying with a now 17-year-old Diego (Jeff Wahlberg) and his family, Dora meets fellow students Sammy (Madeleine Madden) and Randy (Nicholas Coombe). Dora's parents have been trying to locate the legendary city for years, the golden city Inca of Parapeta. When they finally decide to go exploring without her daughter, she must leave the golden Peruvian jungle and move to the USA to the home of her uncle and her cousin Diego (Jeff Wahlberg) and attent at the Silverlake High school. Then they are captured by mercenaries led by Powell (Temuera Morrison) who fly them to Peru. When they land, a man named Alejandro (Eugenio Derbez) claims to be a friend of Dora's parents . Meanwhile, Boots and Swiper (voices of Danny Trejo and Benicio del Toro in the original version) are doing their thing, full of mischief and gibberish. Explorer is Her Middle Name !. Unlock the mystery !. Unleash your wild side !.

A kiddies adventure with thrills, emotion, adolescent friendship and sense of wonder. Stars Isabela Moner (Transformers: The Last Knight, Sicario: The Day of the Soldado) who gives a likable acting as the brave and adventurer teen girl. Co-starring Eugenio Darbez, Michael Peña, Eva Longoria, Adriana Barraza, Jeff Wahlberg, Danny Trejo and Benicio del Toro, all of them give pleasant and sympathetic performances. And special appearance by Isela Vega in one of her last films before her death, playing an old Inca magician with dark secrets. The film unites the classic ingredients of the Nickelodeon series (the backpack, the map, the fox Swiper voiced by Benicio del Toro, Boots voiced by Danny Trejo) with adventures in the jungle full of evil mercenaries, quicksand, lost cities full of gold, and adding the typical High-School stories of teaching including the ordinary nerds, underdogs and bullies.

The agreeable script is by Nicholas Stoller and Matthew Robins and the efficient direction by James Bobin. The latter is a fine craftsman and expert in children's films, having been nominated for 11 Primetime Emmy Awards, 4 awards and 24 nominations in total. And working in cinema and television in several films and series, such as: ¨Alice Through the Looking Glass¨, ¨Muppets Most Wanted¨ , ¨The Muppets¨, ¨The Conchords¨, ¨Enlightened¨, ¨Percy Jackson and the Olympians¨, among others. ¨Dora and the Lost City of Gold¨(2019) rating: 6/10. The film will appeal to adventure-loving children and teenagers alike.

Okay, I never expected to be sitting watching this film and to be honest, I watched it when I was feeling a bit blurgh and needed a bit of brightness and happiness. And you know what, it delivered.

It's not a great film by any means but it is a very good family film, something to sit and watch with the children on a Saturday afternoon.

Isabela Merced was quite good in Transformers: The Last Knight and Instant Family and she shows again that she has a good future in family type films for the next few years.

It's an adventure story with lots of silliness and friendships, an Indiana Jones for the younger generation with less snakes and more brightly coloured outfits.

You know what, I'll give it a 12/20 because it is a good fun.

I used to watch this with my son when he was a kid, he's now 15. I took him to watch the screener as a joke lol. It was actually better than i expected. Although there are a few cringe worthy scenes that only little kids would enjoy, we both thought the movie was quite funny & overall entertaining. Solid 8 stars from me.

OK, joking aside, we all thought this was gonna flop spectacularly. Dora has had a very rocky reputation and a live-action version sounds like a terrible idea. But to my surprise this was a very charming and pretty funny movie. It is mainly aimed at kids and that meant a bit of cringe-worthy moments here and there, but the whole product is just a lot of fun, and I'm saying this as someone who despises Dora The Explorer. Give it a watch, you may end up liking it.

As a toddler, my daughter adored Dora. My son loved Go Diego, Go. Now, as older elementary students, they had a blast at this movie, and I did too. I thought the talking Swiper was weird, but it was one of my son's favorite parts. This movie was about being positive and being yourself, and the movie boldly said, 'I'm not going to try to be something I'm not.' It was entertaining and fun, and my kids came out singing and dancing. Isn't that the point? With so many violent and intense movies these days, this proved a refreshing change.