Movie Review: Dora and the Lost City of Gold - Dora the Explorer's new lease on franchise life mostly succeeds in straddling the line between its preschool precursor and a new, older demographic.
deserves just enough praise for working as a gateway action/adventure exotic exploration movie for kids to eventually get into
, while sporting a central performance that’s effortlessly charming and instantly lovable enough to almost carry the entire project.is based, is an animated show geared toward very young children, its mission to teach basic language skills and geographical information through the always cheery protagonist and her cadre of anthropomorphized animals and inanimate objects.
The addition of Dora’s classmates is used as easy character arcs for Dora to learn to ease up on her jungle obsession, while the other teenagers gradually come to terms with her eccentricities and embrace her as a friend. A lot of comedy mileage, some hacky and some quite inventive, is drawn out of them freaking out over the many challenges of the jungle.
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