Dora and the Lost City of Gold Movie Poster

2019 flick directed by James Bobin

Dora and the Lost City of Gold
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	James Bobin
Screenplay past	Nicholas Stoller Matthew Robinson
Story by	Tom Wheeler Nicholas Stoller
Based on	Dora the Explorer by Chris Gifford Valerie Walsh Valdes Eric Weiner
Produced by	Kristin Burr
Starring	Isabela Moner Eugenio Derbez Michael Peña Eva Longoria Danny Trejo
Cinematography	Javier Aguirresarobe
Edited by	Marker Everson
Music by	John Debney Germaine Franco
Production companies	Paramount Players Nickelodeon Movies Walden Media MRC Burr! Productions
Distributed past	Paramount Pictures
Release date	August 9, 2019 (2019-08-09) (United States)
Running time	102 minutes
Country	U.s.
Language	English language
Upkeep	$49 million^[1]
Box office	$119.7 million^[1]

Dora and the Lost Metropolis of Gold is a 2019 American adventure comedy film directed by James Bobin. It is a alive-activeness adaptation of the Nick Jr. animated television series Dora the Explorer equally well every bit the Nickelodeon animated series Dora and Friends . The film stars Isabela Moner, Eugenio Derbez, Michael Peña, Eva Longoria, with Danny Trejo as the vocalism of Boots. The titular Lost Metropolis of Gold is based on the legendary Inca city, Paititi. Dora and the Lost City of Golden was produced by Paramount Players and Nickelodeon Movies in association with Walden Media, MRC and Burr! Productions, and distributed by Paramount Pictures.

A alive-action Dora motion-picture show was announced in 2017,^[2] and Moner was cast in the championship role in May 2018. Near of the other lead cast members were hired throughout the balance of the twelvemonth, and filming took identify from August to December 2018 in Australia and Republic of peru. This film is set later on the events of the blithe original television series and was also the kickoff movie based on a Nick Jr. series.

Dora and the Lost City of Gold was theatrically released in the United States by Paramount Pictures on August 9, 2019, the same day in which the concluding 5 unaired episodes of the original series aired on Nick Jr. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised Moner's performance and the cocky-enlightened sense of humour and grossed $119.vii million worldwide confronting a budget of $49 million.

On February 15th, 2022, Paramount+ announced development of a live activity serial, said to be "in the same spirit equally the recent live activity film for older audiences".^[iii]

Plot

Deep in the Peruvian jungle, 6-year-old Dora Márquez, daughter of jungle explorers Cole and Elena, spends her days going on adventures with her monkey friend Boots, her 7-yr-old cousin Diego, and imaginary friends Backpack and Map while disappointment Swiper the thieving flim-flam. One day, Diego and his family leave to Los Angeles while Dora and her parents remain searching for the subconscious Inca metropolis of gilded, Parapata.

After x years of exploring, Dora'south parents decipher the location of Parapata and choose to send a now 16-twelvemonth-old Dora to Diego's high school in Los Angeles while they travel to the lost city. Staying with a now 17-year-old Diego and his family, Dora meets fellow students Sammy and Randy. Due to Dora's intelligence, Sammy sees her as her rival. All the same, Randy is amused by Dora'southward intelligence and her being very nice to him and develops a trounce on her. Dora enjoys her new life, but Diego is embarrassed by her eccentric behavior; information technology culminates in mocking and proper name-calling past several of their peers when Dora publicly dances to a conga vocal at the school dance. Equally Diego walks outside, Dora tries to comfort him, but Diego says that she is no longer in the jungle, which leads to a fallout between them.

The following twenty-four hours, 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 who fly them to Peru. When they land, a man named Alejandro, who claims to be a friend of Dora'south parents, helps them escape. In the process, the mercenaries, aided by Swiper, steal Dora's map. Alejandro reports that Dora's parents accept gone missing and that the mercenaries are searching for them in hopes of getting into Parapata to steal its treasures. Dora resolves to find her parents first with Alejandro's help, while Diego comes forth to wait after Dora, with the other teens tagging forth in hopes of being rescued.

The group travels through numerous obstacles, including quicksand, Inca ruin puzzles, hallucination-inducing spores that turned them into animated characters in the manner of the original cartoon, and attacks from woods guards of Parapata. During the journeying, Sammy warms up to Dora and becomes nicer to everyone. Dora and Diego eventually reconcile and Dora notices Diego has a crush on Sammy. Subsequently 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 besides, merely Boots appears and helps them escape. With Dora'southward parents withal prisoners, Boots helps Dora find her conviction and she tells the teens that they need to find the style inside Parapata to learn the treasure so they can use it 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 key shrine. Alejandro, having secretly followed them, arrives as the group reaches its terminal test. While he thinks that the gold is the correct reply, Dora warns him that the test could have bad answers for those who fail information technology and that she and her friends are safe while he stands on the trap, which presently opens and Alejandro falls in information technology. The soldiers guarding Parapata defeat the mercenaries and face the teens. Dora speaks to their queen in Quechua, assuring that the kids but came for her parents and to learn. Dora figures out the answer to the exam, and the Incas let her and everyone to accept a unmarried glimpse of their greatest treasure, until Swiper appears and steals the idol, thus angering the gods. Every bit Alejandro is taken abroad, Dora regains the idol and puts information technology dorsum into place.

After the group leaves, Diego and Sammy get a couple. Dora's parents and the teens get in at her jungle habitation, where the other teens' parents are waiting and are happy to see them. Her parents discuss going on some other expedition as a family, but Dora decides to return to school in Los Angeles. During the credits, at the high school trip the light fantastic toe, Dora and her friends sing "Nosotros Did It", jubilant their victory of finding Parapata, while Alejandro remains a prisoner in Parapata for a thousand years, and Cole and Elena stop Swiper from running away with their Inca item.

Cast

Isabela Moner as Dora, a 16-twelvemonth-old jungle explorer and the main protagonist from Dora the Explorer . She is Cole and Elena's girl and Diego's cousin. Moner also voices Dora in the spore scene.
- Madelyn Miranda as young Dora
Eugenio Derbez every bit Alejandro Gutierrez, a treasure hunter and professor at the National Academy of San Marcos who is the boss of the mercenaries. Some of his known treasure heists include the Crown Jewels of the Ivory Declension and the Comtesse de Vendome. Derbez also voices Alejandro in the spore scene.
Michael Peña equally Cole Marquez, a jungle explorer who's Dora's father and Diego's uncle.
Eva Longoria as Elena Marquez, a jungle explorer who's Dora's female parent and Diego's aunt.
Jeff Wahlberg as Diego, Dora'south cousin and the main protagonist of Go, Diego, Go! who becomes Sammy's young man. Wahlberg also voices Diego in the spore scene.
- Malachi Barton equally young Diego
Madeleine Madden as Sammy Moore, a teenage girl who is friends with Dora, Diego and Randy and becomes Diego's girlfriend. Madden too voices Sammy in the spore scene.
Nicholas Coombe as Randy Warren, a teenage boy who is friends with Dora, Diego and Sammy and has a beat out on Dora. Coombe also voices Randy in the spore scene.
Temuera Morrison as Powell, a mercenary who serves as Alejandro's second-in-command.
Christopher Kirby every bit Viper, a mercenary who had a history of being "yo-yo'd".
Natasa Ristic every bit Christina Ten, a female person mercenary.
Christopher Rawlins as Mercenary
Adriana Barraza as Abuelita Valerie, Dora and Diego's grandmother.
Pia Miller as Sabrina, Dora's aunt and Diego's mother.
Joey Vieira as Nico, Dora's uncle and Diego'due south father.
Q'orianka Kilcher as Princess Kawillaka, the ruler of Parapata.
- Isela Vega as the Old Adult female, Princess Kawillaka's old form.

Voice bandage

Danny Trejo as Boots, a monkey who is Dora's best friend and partner.
- Dee Bradley Bakery provides Boots' vocal effects.
Benicio del Toro equally Swiper, a sneaky red fox who conspires to swipe useful things from Dora and has allied with the mercenaries.
Marc Weiner as Map, an imaginary, anthropomorphic version of Dora's map who shows Dora where she needs to go. Weiner reprises his role from the original series.
Sasha Toro every bit Backpack, an imaginary, anthropomorphic version of Dora's backpack who carries whatever item that Dora may demand. Toro reprises her role from the series.

Production

On October 24, 2017, a deal was struck for a live-action version of the television series to be fabricated, with James Bobin directing. Nicholas Stoller and Danielle Sanchez-Witzel were hired to pen a script. Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes was announced as producer, though Bay and the company were ultimately not involved.^[iv]

The movie depicts a teenage version of Dora.^[5] It was issued an initial release engagement of Baronial 2, 2019.^[6] In May 2018, Isabela Moner was cast to play Dora.^[7] Eugenio Derbez began negotiations to bring together in June,^[viii] and was confirmed to appear in July. Micke Moreno was originally cast to play Diego, but withdrew and was replaced past Jeff Wahlberg.^[nine] ^[10] Eva Longoria and Michael Peña were cast equally Dora's parents that August.^[eleven] ^[12] Madeleine Madden as well joined the cast of the moving picture.^[xiii] In Oct, Q'orianka Kilcher was added to the cast,^[fourteen] and in Nov, Pia Miller was set to play Dora'due south aunt Sabrina.^[15] In December 2018, Benicio del Toro joined as the vocalism of Swiper,^[16] and in March 2019, Danny Trejo announced that he had been cast every bit the voice of Boots the Monkey.^[17]

In an interview with Forbes , Moner stated that she learned Quechua linguistic communication for the grapheme. She said that the pic would "take audiences toMachu Picchu" to "explore the Incan civilization," and commented that "Dora is very cultured and she knows everything about everything," and that she "doesn't have a defined ethnicity."^[18]

Filming began on August six, 2018, on the Gilded Coast, Queensland, Australia,^[19] ^[20] and ended on December 7, 2018.^[sixteen]

The visual effects are provided by Mill Flick, Film Company and Cheap Shot VFX, supervised past Lindy De Quattro, Andy Brownish and Richard Little with visualization services provided by Proof and 2D animation provided past Blink Industries.

Release

The picture was released on August ix, 2019, the aforementioned 24-hour interval that the 2000 idiot box blithe series ends.^[21] It was previously slated for Baronial ii, 2019.^[19]

Abode media

Dora and the Lost Urban center of Gold was released on Digital Hd on November v, 2019, and later on DVD and Blu-ray on November nineteen, 2019.^[22] The movie is too available on Amazon Prime ^[23] and Paramount+.

Reception

Box function

Dora and the Lost Urban center of Gilded grossed $60.5 one thousand thousand in the United states and Canada, and $59.2 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $119.seven million against a production budget of $49 million.^[1]

In the The states and Canada, the pic was released alongside The Kitchen , The Fine art of Racing in the Rain , Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and Brian Banks , and was projected to gross $15–twenty million from 3,500 theaters in its opening weekend. In India the film was released in English language, Hindi, Telugu and Tamil languages and became a blockbuster.^[24] ^[25] The film made $half-dozen.7 million on its first day, including $1.25 million from Thursday night previews. It went into debut to $17 million, finishing 4th at the box office; 46% of its audience was Latino, while 32% were Caucasian, 11% African-American and x% Asian.^[26] Information technology dropped 51% in its 2d weekend to $eight.v meg, finishing 6th.^[27] It then made $five.3 million in its tertiary weekend and $4.i million in its fourth, and $2.7 meg in its 5th.^[28] ^[29] ^[30]

Critical response

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an blessing rating of 85% based on 155 reviews, with an average rating of six.6/x. The site's critical consensus reads, "Led by a winning performance from Isabela Moner, Dora and the Lost City of Golden is a family-friendly hazard that retains its source fabric'south youthful spirit."^[31] Metacritic gave the moving-picture show a weighted boilerplate score of 63 out of 100, based on 23 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews."^[32] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale, while PostTrak reported that adult and children filmgoers gave information technology an boilerplate of iv.v and 3.5 stars out of 5, respectively.^[26]

Peter Debruge of Variety wrote, "Whereas virtually of the cast (and specially Derbez) play broad, borderline-slapstick versions of their characters, Moner has the wide optics and always-chipper mental attitude we associate with Dora, simply adds a level of charisma the blithe graphic symbol couldn't convey."^[33]