Release date: August 9, 2019 PGh
84% Tomatometer, 88% Audience score.
After spending eight years living in the rainforest, Dora’s family decides to send her to LA, to live with her cousin Diego.
When Dora arrives to L.A, she literally has no idea of what to do. She meets up with Diego and goes to school the next day. Diego is very embarrassed to walk around with Dora, so we can only imagine what Diego is feeling going on a field trip with Dora. When they arrive to the museum, Dora and Diego are assigned a group to do a scavenger hunt with. A museum employee makes Dora, along with her group, think that there is a relic in the basement, but it is a trick. The employee’s are bad guys who are trying to find the Lost City of Gold, which is the same city that Dora’s parents are trying to find. They trap the group and take them on a plane to a rainforest. Then a guy named Alejandro “rescues” them. He takes them to find the lost city of gold to try and save Dora’s parents from the “museum employee’s”a.k.a bad guys. Dora and her group of friends travel through mysterious biomes of the rainforest, including quicksand and intricate mayan traps. They have to use their brain power to solve these very hard riddles and traps. Once they reach the lost city, Alejandro then reveals that he is working with the bad guys. He followed and rescued Dora’s friends to find gold and the city. Alejandro then forced Dora to take him to the gold. Dora took him there, but Alejandro could not figure out the traps in the temple, and because of this, Dora’s friends got ahead of him and stopped Alejandro for good.
Review by Aiden Naik: “I felt like they did a great job on portraying this childish character in a big movie screen that was meant for maybe like 13 year olds. I think the humour was very good and like I said they did a great job of converting a childish character to a really cool teenage high schooler girl. I feel like this movie was very predictable on my part, but then again this movie was meant for children and I could see children being very interested in this movie even though they won’t understand some of the humor factors in the movie.”
Cast List:
Isabela Moner(Dora), Eva Longoria(Elena), Michael Pena(Dora’s Father), Eugenio Derbez(Alejandro), Jeff Wahlberg(Diego).
By: Sam Lord ’2025, and Aiden Naik’ 2025