Dora and the Lost City of Gold

Paramount Pictures | Release Date: August 9, 2019

5.1	USER SCORE Mixed or average reviews based on 96 Ratings

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JLuis_001Sep 2, 2019

Incredibly is Isabela Moner - Whom I found quite annoying in ''Instant Family'', '' Sicario: Day of the Soldier'' and ''Transformers: The Last Knight'' - Who becomes the most interesting revelation of this film.

I honestly had noIncredibly is Isabela Moner - Whom I found quite annoying in ''Instant Family'', '' Sicario: Day of the Soldier'' and ''Transformers: The Last Knight'' - Who becomes the most interesting revelation of this film.

I honestly had no expectations and I have a hard time believing that someone would expect more than what it's shown.
After all, it's still a Nickelodeon kid's film focused solely on those sectors: Kids, families, Dora fans and fans of the channel.
It's not like the live action character was going to become a kind of teenage Lara Croft. C'mon, let's be real.

Depending on your own cynicism and interest it's how you will find some relevancy in this film. Otherwise I think it's quite obvious that you know very well where you're getting yourself into.… Expand

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MarshallCavalliAug 16, 2019

This is an average kids movie. That's about it. There isn't much I can say that could convince you to see it.

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Compi24Aug 13, 2019

A live-action interpretation that's as truly confusing as it is confused itself, "Dora And The Lost City Of Gold" neither establishes a consistent world, nor effectively communicates a true vision for what it's supposed to be, how everythingA live-action interpretation that's as truly confusing as it is confused itself, "Dora And The Lost City Of Gold" neither establishes a consistent world, nor effectively communicates a true vision for what it's supposed to be, how everything within it is supposed to be treated, or why it's all supposed to be funny. Seriously, what is going on here? Why is Dora so drastically different from everyone else, including her parents, who are two seemingly normal human beings? Why would you even bother entertaining the notion that all of the television adventures we've seen over the years are fantasies, when you have an actual, anthropomorphic Swiper The Fox existing in what we're supposed to believe is "the real world?" Why does everyone view Dora with such disdain and derision but treat the talking fox and blue and yellow monkey as just naturally occurring elements in existence itself? What is going on? They're clearly trying at some sort of parodic treatment of the material, yes, but they're also implementing some elements of the show unironically, ultimately making it feel like a soulless hodgepodge of ideas you've seen done better and more consistently in movies like "The Brady Bunch Movie" and "Christopher Robin," two very different movies with very distinct rules in play for their respective worlds. This movie wants to do all of the above and it's simply asinine. One of the more excruciating testaments to the power of having a singular vision in the writer's room.… Expand

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JPKAug 9, 2019

Weird
This film is definitely something, The thought of a Dora movie is laughably bad, The film itself is mediocre, But it is still a pretty weird film.

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TheQuietGamerJan 1, 2020

Such a confused and misguided movie. In effort to bring Dora into a more realistic world free from things like talking backpacks, this live-action update establishes that all of the events from the TV show were imagined by the protagonist andSuch a confused and misguided movie. In effort to bring Dora into a more realistic world free from things like talking backpacks, this live-action update establishes that all of the events from the TV show were imagined by the protagonist and her cousin Diego when they played pretend together as children, and proceeds to make fun of its animated counterpart from that point on. An idea that almost works. At least until the film breaks its own reality by including an anthropomorphic fox in a mask. A fox we are clearly shown Dora and Diego imagining at the start of the movie. Yet neither of them even react in the slightest to seeing it stand before them in the flesh. Or that he's talking. Which is messy to say the least.

The humor is very hit or miss. Things are at their most consistently humorous and entertaining when Dora goes to the city after years spent living in the jungle and has to navigate the intricacies of highschool. This is where I wish the movie had stayed as it was really on to something there. Unfortunately, it takes it takes a bizarre left turn and we end up back in the jungle on some sort of Indiana Jones-esque adventure where we are then ferried from one tonally incoherent setpiece to next and it seems like the movie loses all grip on what it wants to be before culminating in one of the most poorly choreographed musical numbers I've ever seen.

It's definitely a cute film, but the vision behind it seems so muddled and even self-contradictory that all I feel is confusion and disdain. Little kids on the other hand are likely going to love this for all of its silly humor. I'd challenge those youngsters to revisit it in a few years though, as I doubt that they'll find much value in it when they're older.… Expand