Dora and the Lost City of Gold Dvd

Dora and the Lost City of Gold is a 2019 American adventure comedy film that is a live-action adaptation of the Nick Jr animated television series Dora the Explorer and directed by James Bobin. The film stars Isabela Moner, Eugenio Derbez, Michael Peña, Eva Longoria, and Danny Trejo as the voice of Boots.

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, and was also the first film based on a Nick Jr. 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.

Plot

Deep in the Peruvian jungle, 6-year-old 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 7-year-old cousin Diego (Malachi Barton), and imaginary friends Backpack and Map while thwarting Swiper (voiced by Benicio del Toro) the thieving fox. One day, Diego and his family leave to Los Angeles while 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 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). Due to Dora’s intelligence, Sammy sees her as her rival, but Randy is amused by Dora’s intelligence, as well as her being very nice to him, and develops an immediate crush on her. Dora enjoys her new life, but Diego is embarrassed by her eccentric behavior and people mocked and laughed them, which leads to a fallout between them.

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 Diego comes along to look after Dora and 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. During the journey, Sammy warms up to Dora and becomes nicer to everyone. Dora and Diego eventually reconcile and Dora notices Diego has a crush on Sammy. 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, Boots gives Dora the confidence to tell the teens that they need to find the way inside Parapata to acquire 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 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. After the group leaves, Diego and Sammy become a couple.

Dora’s parents and the teens arrive at her jungle home, where the other teens parents are waiting and are overjoyed to see them. Her parents discuss going on another expedition as a whole family, but Dora decides to return to school in Los Angeles.

During the credits, Dora and her friends celebrate at the school dance while singing a version of “We Did It.” Alejandro remains a prisoner in Parapata, Cole and Elena prevent Swiper from making off with one of their items and Dora and rest of the school dance together.

Cast

Isabela Moner as Dora Márquez: a jungle explorer.
Madelyn Miranda as young Dora
Eugenio Derbez as Professor Alejandro Gutiérrez: an explorer and professor at the National University of San Marcos who claims to be an old friend of Cole and Elena and the leader of the mercenaries.
Michael Peña as Cole Márquez: Dora’s father and Diego’s uncle.
Eva Longoria as Elena Márquez: Dora’s mother and Diego’s aunt.
Jeff Wahlberg as Diego Márquez: Dora’s cousin.
Malachi Barton as young Diego
Nicholas Coombe as Randy Warren: a school classmate who is friends with Dora, Diego and Sammy. He also has a crush on Dora.
Madeleine Madden as Sammy Moore: a school classmate who is friends with Dora, Diego and Randy. She later becomes Diego’s girlfriend.
Temuera Morrison as Powell: a mercenary working for Professor Alejandro as his second-in-command.
Christopher Kirby as Viper: a mercenary
Natasa Ristic as Christina X: a mercenary
Adriana Barraza as Abuelita Valerie: Dora and Diego’s grandmother.
Pia Miller as Sabrina: Dora’s aunt and Diego’s mother.
Q’orianka Kilcher as Princess Kawillaka: the ruler of Parapata.
Isela Vega as Old Woman