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Dora and the Lost City of Gold

  • 20192019
  • PGPG
  • 1h 42m
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Benicio Del Toro, Danny Trejo, Eugenio Derbez, Isabela Merced, Madeleine Madden, and Jeff Wahlberg in Dora and the Lost City of Gold (2019)
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 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.
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Teenage explorer Dora leads her friends on an adventure to save her parents and solve the mystery behind a lost city of gold.Teenage explorer Dora leads her friends on an adventure to save her parents and solve the mystery behind a lost city of gold.Teenage explorer Dora leads her friends on an adventure to save her parents and solve the mystery behind a lost city of gold.
IMDb RATING
6.1/10
32K
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POPULARITY
4,060
130
    • James Bobin
  • Writers
    • Nicholas Stoller(screenplay by)
    • Matthew Robinson(screenplay by)
    • Tom Wheeler(story by)
  • Stars
    • Isabela Merced
    • Eugenio Derbez
    • Michael Peña
    • James Bobin
  • Writers
    • Nicholas Stoller(screenplay by)
    • Matthew Robinson(screenplay by)
    • Tom Wheeler(story by)
  • Stars
    • Isabela Merced
    • Eugenio Derbez
    • Michael Peña
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    • 325User reviews
    • 139Critic reviews
    • 63Metascore
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    Danny Trejo in Dora and the Lost City of Gold (2019)
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    Isabela Merced
    Isabela Merced
    • Dora
    • (as Isabela Moner)
    Eugenio Derbez
    Eugenio Derbez
    • Alejandro
    Michael Peña
    Michael Peña
    • Cole
    Eva Longoria
    Eva Longoria
    • Elena
    Benicio Del Toro
    Benicio Del Toro
    • Swiper
    • (voice)
    Madelyn Miranda
    Madelyn Miranda
    • Dora (6 years)
    Dee Bradley Baker
    Dee Bradley Baker
    • Animal Vocalizations
    • (voice)
    Malachi Barton
    Malachi Barton
    • Diego (6 years)
    Sasha Toro
    • Backpack
    • (voice)
    Marc Weiner
    • Map
    • (voice)
    Joey Vieira
    Joey Vieira
    • Nico
    Pia Miller
    Pia Miller
    • Sabrina
    Jeff Wahlberg
    Jeff Wahlberg
    • Diego
    Adriana Barraza
    Adriana Barraza
    • Abuelita Valerie
    Damien Garvey
    Damien Garvey
    • Security Guard
    Anikka Abelita
    • Vegan Student
    Madeleine Madden
    Madeleine Madden
    • Sammy
    Daniel Donaldson
    • Bad Dancing Teacher
      • James Bobin
    • Writers
      • Nicholas Stoller(screenplay by) (story by)
      • Matthew Robinson(screenplay by)
      • Tom Wheeler(story by)
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    • Trivia
      Isabela Merced, who plays Dora, had earlier starred as Dora's friend Kate in Dora and Friends: Into the City! (2014).
    • Goofs
      After all 5 characters climb out of the quick sand they are all covered in quick sand. In the following scene, all 5 are clean with no evidence of any quicksand on their clothes.
    • Quotes

      Dora: This is a golden poison tree frog! Can YOU say 'extreme neurotoxicity'?

    • Crazy credits
      At the end of the closing credits, the Fiesta Trio from Dora the Explorer (2000) appear and make a curtain call.

      They usually appear in the show to congratulate Dora for completing a quest, their appearance here is upon the completion of the film.
    • Alternate versions
      The opening MRC logo varies by print, depending on the Valence Media byline fading in or not at all.
    • Connections
      Featured in AniMat's Crazy Cartoon Cast: The Happiest Episode :D (2019)
    • Soundtracks
      The Cliff
      Traditional Russian Song

      Arranged by Dimitri Oleg Yachinov

      Performed by The Red Army Choir

      Courtesy of Silva Screen Music America & FGL Productions

    User reviews325

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    7/10
    A fun summer adventure film for kids that's also fun for adults.
    The Plot is a wholly ridiculous story ripped from multiple Tarzan movies of the 40's and 50's. But go with it.

    Six-year old Dora (Madelyn Miranda) and Diego (Malachi Barton) are having fun growing up in the jungle with their academic parents. (At least, you assume Diego's parents are there somewhere... this is all very vague!). Dora's parents - Cole (Michael Peña) and Elena (Eva Longoria) - are explorers on a lifelong mission to discover the lost Inca city of Parapata. Parapata is famed to be crammed with gold - "more than all the rest of the world's gold put together".

    But Dad makes clear that they are not in it for the financial benefit: the motto is explorers = good; treasure hunters = bad.

    But Dora's idyllic childhood is rocked when Diego has to return to civilization and she has to grow up alone with her parents.

    Roll forwards 10 years and Dora has grown. Now as Isabela Moner, she discovers a vital clue to Parapata's location. But this signals a change for Dora, since she is not allowed on the expedition and must go to a far wilder place: to join Diego, now Jeff Wahlberg (nephew of Mark) in an LA high-school.

    But Mum and Dad are not the only ones on the trail of Parapata's treasures, and together with new friends, the spiky "mean-girl" Sammy (Madeleine Madden) and the nerdy astronomy geek Randy (Nicholas Coombe), they must mount a rescue mission that takes them.... you'll NEVER guess where..!

    The film is a blast for kids, and probably suitable for emotionally robust kids of all ages. Nobody actually dies, despite falling unfathomably long distances onto rocks! However, the film also pulls off that great and welcome trick by dropping in enough jokes for parents to be entertained. "Yumm... delicioso!" says young Dora. Then breaking the fourth wall "Can YOU say delicioso?". Fleabag-style this confuses the hell out of Mum and Dad. Cole says to Elena, "Don't worry... she'll grow out of it". And fortunately, she does before the joke becomes tiresome!

    There's no warning about drug-taking, since the hallucinogenic scene with exploding flowers will go right over young kid's heads. But I found it very amusing!

    There are also some fun "fish out of water" high school scenes. We've seen many of these before with the likes of Spider-Man, but here they are light-touch and fun.

    When things get back into the jungle, they take on a much whackier angle. It's all very "Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull", but without the crushing disappointment! But again, kids will love the puzzle-solving and the "Mummy-ish" gothic humour. The only part of this that I think might disturb young kids is a quicksand scene, that parents might like to pre-warn youngsters that everything will work out fine!

    Holding the whole film together like a little Duracell Bunny of vitality is 18-year old Isabela Moner, who is a genuine talent, honed in the Nickelodeon studios. She was impressive in the above average "Instant Family", and I predict she will go onto great things over the next 10 years.

    Elsewhere, a "Pointless" answer from the cast is Benicio del Toro as the voice of "Swiper", a bizarrely talking and poorly-disguised fox! This probably makes more sense to those who know the original kid's cartoon!

    Even more annoying is Dora's (strangely multi-coloured) monkey Boots... the Jar Jar Binks of the film, who might amuse very young children but probably not many other folks.

    Final Thoughts: Here's a film that is not trying to be anything other than a fun and much needed summer outing for families. Disney used to do this sort of live-action family film thing so well in the 70's and 80's, before they got obsessed with pointless recreations of their cartoon classics.

    The director is James Bobin, who's formerly directed a number of the Muppet movies, and this movie breathes with the same sense of anarchic fun without being too up itself.

    The film occasionally makes you cringe, with some dreadfully (and deliberately) naff songs, but I enjoyed it and for the right audience (kids 8 to 12) I think they'll have a blast.

    (For the full graphical review, please check out One Mann's Movies on this new-fangled internet thing, or else on Facebook... whatever the earth that is. Thanks).
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      • August 9, 2019 (United States)
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      • Tarapoto, Peru
    • Production companies
      • Paramount Players
      • Nickelodeon Movies
      • Walden Media
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    • 1 hour 42 minutes
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      • Auro 11.1

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