Dora and the Lost City of Gold (2019)
Dora Marquez embarks on a mission with her monkey, Boots, and her friends to rescue her missing parents and solve the mystery of a fabled city of gold.
Dora and the Lost City of Gold is a 2019 American adventure comedy film directed by James Bobin. It is a live-action adaptation of the Nick Jr. animated television series Dora the Explorer as well as the Nickelodeon animated series Dora and Friends. The film stars Isabela Moner, Eugenio Derbez, Michael Peña, Eva Longoria, with Danny Trejo as the voice of Boots. The titular Lost City of Gold is based on the legendary Inca city, Paititi. Dora and the Lost City of Gold was produced by Paramount Players and Nickelodeon Movies in association with Walden Media, MRC and Burr! Productions, and distributed by Paramount Pictures.
A live-action Dora film was announced in 2017,[2] 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. Channel series.
As a lead–up to the movie, five out of the six unaired episodes of the original series aired on Nick Jr from July 7 to August 4, 2019. 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 final unaired episode of the original series aired on Nick Jr. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised Moner's performance and the self-aware humor and grossed $120 million worldwide against a budget of $49 million.
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-year-old cousin Diego, and imaginary friends Backpack and Map while thwarting Swiper the thieving fox. One day, Diego and his family leave for Los Angeles while Dora and her parents remain searching for the hidden Inca city of gold, Parapata.
After 10 years of exploring, Cole and Elena decipher the location of Parapata. They choose to send a now 16-year-old Dora to Diego's high school in Los Angeles so she can be with kids her own age while they travel to the lost city. Staying with Diego's family, Dora meets fellow students Sammy and Randy. Sammy sees Dora as a rival due to her intelligence while Randy develops a crush on her. Dora enjoys her new life, but Diego is embarrassed by her eccentric behavior; it culminates in mocking and name-calling by some of their classmates when she publicly dances to a conga song at the school dance. As Diego walks off, 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 day on a class field trip to a museum, Dora, Diego, Sammy, and Randy 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'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 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 along to look after her, with the other teens tagging along in hopes of being rescued.