‘Dora and the Lost City of Gold’ Is Adorable, Pure Family Fun

In a cinema market where name recognition is the best indicator of success it was only a matter of time before Dora the Explorer appeared on the big screen. Since its Nickelodeon debut in 2000, Dora the Explorer has became a household name among any house with a child and a television, especially with parents with any special interest in exposing their children to diversity and other cultures. Nearly twenty years later, Paramount and Nickelodeon give the Spanish-speaking girl with the bob haircut a bigger audience in Dora and the Lost City of Gold, and you can be glad they did. The New Dora In the new Dora, our girl (played by Isabela Moner) has aged into a young teenager. She maintains the childlike innocence and charm she had at the age we once knew her. Living mostly alone in the Amazon with only her parents and her quirky pet monkey, Boots, Dora’s social skills fit better in the jungle than a high school. Her best childhood friend is her cousin Diego. They’re forced apart when Dora’s parents (played by Eva Longoria and Michael Peña) take her off in search of a lost city of gold, and you can imagine the challenge of what’s to come: Diego grows up in a “regular” school system and becomes a normal teenager while Dora remains the same, untarnished by high school popularity, politics, or peer pressure. Isabela Moner and Jeff Wahlberg star in Paramount Pictures, Paramount Players and Nickelodeon Movies “Dora and the Lost City of Gold.” When Dora and Diego are reunited as teens,…