Dora and the Lost City of Gold

Dora and the Lost City of Gold is a 2019 American family adventure film based on the 2000 television series Dora The Explorer made by Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh Valdes and Eric Weiner, which the film is a live action adaptation of the tv series of the same name as well as Nickelodeon series Dora and Friends. Directed by James Bobin and screenplay by Nicholas Stoller and Matthew Robinson from a story by Stoller and Tom Wheeler. It stars Isabela Moner, Eugenio Derbez, Temuera Morrison, Eva Longoria, Michael Peña, Jeff Wahlberg, Q'orianka Kilcher, Adriana Barraza, and Pia Miller as well as the voice of Danny Trejo and Benicio Del Toro. The film is produced by Paramount Players, Walden Media, Nickelodeon Movies and Media Rights Capital, and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was released on August 9, 2019. This film is also the second Nickelodeon film from Walden Media (after 2006's Charlotte's Web). The film received positive review from critics and audiences, while based on the $49 million budget, it grossed $119.7 million worldwide at the succeeding box office. The film does not acquire the live action sequel of the film until February 2022, where Paramount+ was announced to be development on live action series of the television show. 
==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 plan to leave for Los Angeles while Dora and her parents remain searching for the hidden Inca city of gold, Parapata.
After 10 years, Dora is still exploring with Boots and is homeschooled, meanwhile, her parents decipher the location of Parapata and choose to send a now 16-year-old Dora to stay with Diego's family and go to high school in Los Angeles while they travel to the lost city. Dora, however, wishes to go with her parents and find the city, but they tell her it's time. Staying with a now 17-year-old Diego and his family, Dora meets fellow students Sammy and Randy. Due to Dora’s intelligence, Sammy sees her as her rival. Still, Randy is amused by Dora’s intelligence and her being very nice to him and 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 several of their peers when Dora publicly dances to a conga song at the school dance. As Diego walks outside, Dora tries to comfort him, but Diego says that she is no longer in the jungle, which leads to a fallout between them. Dora goes home in tears and is comforted by Abuela. Meanwhile, after months of talking to her parents still in search of the city, her parents have disappeared in the jungle.
While on a class field trip to a museum, Dora and the others 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 that 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 Dora, with the other teens tagging along in hopes of being rescued.
The group travels through numerous obstacles, including quicksand, Inca ruin puzzles, hallucination-inducing spores that turned them into animated characters in the style of the original cartoon, and attacks from forest guards of Parapata. During the journey, Sammy warms up to Dora and becomes nicer to everyone. Dora and Diego eventually reconcile and Dora notices Diego has a crush on Sammy. After numerous hazards, Dora reaches her parents just outside the borders of Parapata, but Alejandro reveals he was the mercenaries' leader all along and captures them. The other teens are caught as well, but Boots appears and helps them escape. With Dora's parents still prisoners, Boots helps Dora find her confidence and she tells the teens that they need to find the way inside Parapata to acquire the treasure so they can use it to bargain for Elena and Cole's release.
Inside the hidden city, Dora and the others solve its temple's puzzles and dodge its traps, bringing them to the central shrine. Alejandro, having secretly followed them, arrives as the group reaches its final test. While he thinks that the gold is the right answer, Dora warns him that the test could have bad answers for those who fail it and that she and her friends are safe while he stands on the trap, which soon opens and Alejandro falls in it. The soldiers guarding Parapata defeat the mercenaries and confront the teens. Dora speaks to their queen in Quechua, assuring that the kids only came for her parents and to learn. Dora figures out the answer to the test, and the Incas allow her and everyone to have a single glimpse of their greatest treasure, until Swiper appears and steals the idol, thus angering the gods. As Alejandro is taken away, Dora regains the idol and puts it back into place.
After the group leaves, Diego and Sammy become a couple. Dora's parents and the teens arrive at her jungle home, where the other teens' parents are waiting and are happy to see them. Her parents discuss going on another expedition as a family, but Dora decides to return to school in Los Angeles.
During the credits at the high school dance, Dora and her friends sing "We Did It" as they celebrate their victory of finding Parapata, Alejandro remains a prisoner in Parapata for 1,000 years, and Cole and Elena stop Swiper from running away with their Inca item.
==Cast==
*Isabela Moner as Dora, Diego's cousin, Cole and Elena's daughter, Nico and Sabrina's niece and Valerie's granddaughter
**Madelyn Miranda as Young Dora
*Jeff Wahlberg as Diego, Dora's cousin, Nico and Sabrina's son, Cole and Elena's nephew and Valerie's grandson
**Malachi Barton as Young Diego
*Eugenio Derbez as Alejandro Gutierrez, Cole and Elena's old friend
*Michael Peña as Cole, Dora's father, Valerie's son-in-law and Diego's uncle
*Eva Longoria as Elena, Dora's mother, Nico's sister, Diego's aunt, and Valerie's daughter
*Danny Trejo as the voice of Boots the Monkey, Dora's best friend and partner
*Benicio del Toro as the voice of Swiper the Fox
*Nicholas Coombe as Randy Warren
*Madeleine Madden as Sammy Moore, Diego's girlfriend
*Temuera Morrison as Powell
*Christopher Kirby as Viper
*Natasa Ristic as Christina X
*Christopher Rawlins as Mercenary
*Adriana Barraza as Abuelita Valerie, Dora and Diego's grandmother and Elena and Nico's mother
*Pia Miller as Sabrina, Dora's aunt and Diego's mother
*Joey Viera as Nico, Dora's uncle, Diego's father, Elena's brother and Valerie's son
*Q'orianka Kilcher as Inca Princess Kawillaka
*Isela Vega as Old Woman 
==Videos==
===Trailers===
thumb|center|350px|Official Trailer
===Interviews===
DORA AND THE LOST CITY OF GOLD Isabela Moner "Dora" On-set Interview
DORA AND THE LOST CITY OF GOLD Jeff Wahlberg "Diego" On-set Interview
DORA AND THE LOST CITY OF GOLD Madeleine Madden "Sammy" On-set Interview
DORA AND THE LOST CITY OF GOLD Eva Longoria & Michael Peña talk about the movie
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