It’s difficult to imagine all of the essential elements of the show being translated into a live-action movie, but “Dora and the Lost City of Gold” makes it work.
In Paramount’s live-action “Dora the Explorer” film, five lead actors are of Latino descent. Director James Bobin and stars Isabela Moner, Eva Longoria, Michael Peña and Eugenio Derbez discuss the character’s big-screen debut with “Dora and the Lost City of Gold.”
Most of Dora’s cohorts in her Nickelodeon series are cute, talking animals. And she is also never without her singing backpack and map. It’s difficult to imagine all of these essential elements of the show being translated into a live-action movie, but “Dora and the Lost City of Gold” makes it work.“I wanted to respect the source material because without the material we wouldn’t be here,” said Bobin.
Some of these nods come in the opening moments of the film while Dora and her cousin Diego are playing in the jungle as young children. This includesThe movie also features CGI Boots and Swiper, two characters that regularly appear in “Dora the Explorer.” Boots, of course, is Dora’s monkey friend who in the animated series wears actual boots. Swiper is the sneaky fox that’s usually causing trouble by trying to steal stuff from Dora and her friends. Yes, both animals talk in the cartoon.
The most direct homage to “Dora the Explorer,” however, comes in the form of an actual animated sequence later in the film.After Dora, Diego and Alejandro are exposed to some hallucinogenic spores, their entire reality transforms into a cartoon. Bobin described the scene as “a fun little moment” that “also felt very earned and like an essential part of the narrative.” And it’s during this sequence that viewers can spot other familiar faces from the original show.
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