Dora and the Lost City of Gold

You may be dreading the prospect of having to schlep with your kids to the multiplex to see “Dora and the Lost City of Gold.”

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Disney, take note: This is how to do a winning live-action update of a cartoon.

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Fans of the show will find this live-action version worth swiping.

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Dora The Explorer grows up in the sort of weird, sometimes funny Lost City Of Gold

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More of a role model than you might imagine, the preschool cartoon character spells hope for a new generation in her first live-action adventure.

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Isabela Moner deftly updates the animated heroine in a film that, after a shaky start, hits the right notes of fun and cultural specificity

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There are a few meta shenanigans that nod grinningly at the original cartoon, but mostly the filmmakers take a sincere and straightforward approach. The overall vibe is JV-squad swashbuckling, evoking The Goonies and the Indiana Jones films for a tweens-and-under demographic, and all without the exhausting quippiness of the Lego franchise.

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Having spent her childhood years in the jungle, extroverted adventurer Dora (Isabela Moner) is sent to an American high school in the hope of better integrating into society. When her parents go missing on a top-secret expedition, however, Dora must use her certain set of skills to try and find them.

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Isabela Moner brings the animated character to exuberant life as she heads into the jungle to find her missing mom and pop

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Isabela Moner, Eva Longoria and Michael Pena star in this live-action film adaptation of the popular animated series 'Dora the Explorer.'

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Sure, there may be a nugget or two of gold in “Lost City.” But it mostly stays lost, in this convoluted drag of a script. “Dora” should have picked a path and stayed on it. Instead, it’s a movie that is muy aburrido — boring.

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