Dora and the Lost City of Gold (2019)

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1. 

   karuss

   Totally bonkers and more visually intelligent than anything Disney has done in the past several years. 4 years 5 months ago
2. 

   Siskoid

   Clearly, Dora and the Lost City of Gold is pitched at a younger audience than the one I belong to (poo and fart jokes, silly dances), even in terms of nostalgia (the children's cartoon started airing in 2000). I won't deny there's a sense of fun to this Junior Tomb Raider/Indiana Jones affair, one that grows more infectious, I think, as it moves along - it's definitely cute - but on a plotting level, it leaves a lot to be desired. It seems to waste our time with a silly fish out of water story as teenage Dora leaves the jungle to go to high school, until she and all the kids we've been introduced to fall into a massive plot hole so the movie can get to brass -uhm, gold - tacks and go on an adventure to find the Peruvian equivalent of El Dorado. I mean, if all the villains really needed was the map in her backpack, which did they kidnap four kids and bring them to the jungle at all? (Dora, I can understand, perhaps as a hostage, but the rest?) There are some amusing riffs on the way the cartoon is set up, and indeed, the acting is kind of cartoony. Yes, the characters are in high school, but they're really playing it as younger junior high students, and I think that's who the movie is for. 6th or 7th-graders will recognize what they might think of as their future selves. They don't go full cartoon exactly (the map and the backpack aren't characters except in Dora's imagination), but still bring in the monkey and the masked fox, and these to me are the weakest elements, not least of which because the CG is so badly integrated into the live action (their celebrity voices seem wasted). But you know what? It did draw some laughs out of me (Nicholas Coombe's reactions particularly), and no matter her childish dorkiness, Isabela Merced's Dora was never less than engaging a screen presence (is it me, or is she the Latin-American Jenna Coleman?). 3 years 11 months ago
3. 

   chunkylefunga

   Very paint by numbers and starts ok but becomes sub par in the end.
   
   Also very bizarre to replace the role meant for a 10 year old girl with an 18 year old. 4 years 5 months ago

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