While not as explicitly educational as the original Nickelodeon cartoon it’s based on, Dora and the Lost City of Gold proves edifying nonetheless – in the way it embraces values like kindness, resilience, and curiosity. Did I mention it’s also stupid charming? That has everything to do with the titular heroine, aged up to be a high schooler and played here by the dazzlingly charismatic Isabela Moner. Home-schooled in the jungle by her explorer/professor parents (Longoria and Peña), Dora is shipped off at film’s beginning to the big city and her cousin Diego’s family, while Mom and Dad go off in search of a lost Incan kingdom. The funny, fleet script mines some quick – but never cheap – laughs out of Dora’s fish-out-of-water status before wisely getting her back to the jungle on a new adventure.
Credits
Director:
- James Bobin
Cast:
- Isabela Moner
- Eugenio Derbez
- Micke Moreno
- Nicholas Coombe
- Madeleine Madden
- Adriana Barraza
- Temuera Morrison
- Eva Longoria
- Michael Pena
- Jeff Wahlberg
- Michael Peña
Writer:
- Nicholas Stoller and Matthew Robinson
Now Playing
The next date Dora and the Lost City of Gold is playing is Sunday, September 20 .
(Dora and the Lost City of Gold is not showing in any area theaters on Saturday, September 19.)