Watch the Trailer for "Dora and the Lost City of Gold"
If you spent countless hours watching Dora the Explorer on Nick Jr. while growing up, you can probably thank the cartoon series for some serious childhood education. More than that, we’re willing to bet that you still have a fondness for the whole Dora crew: Dora herself, with that iconic bowl-cut haircut and shorts outfit, her trusty Backpack, Boots the Monkey, cousin Diego with his offshoot show Go, Diego, Go!, and the dastardly villain Swiper the Fox.
If there’s been a Dora-sized hole in your heart since the show went off the air in 2014, don’t worry — a live-action movie version is set to hit theaters this summer, and the first full-length trailer is finally here. Dora and the Lost City of Gold makes our heroine a bit older than we last saw her. The title character, played by Isabela Moner, is being sent away from her jungle home to a real jungle: high school, while her explorer parents go off on a quest to find a lost city of gold.
Thankfully, cousin Diego, sans his beloved animals, is there to help Dora navigate school, and Backpack comes along for the journey too. (It looks like Boots the Monkey, who is rendered in CGI for the movie, stays in the jungle.) While it takes her some time to get acclimated to American high schools (you can’t bring your explorer tools to class!), she finds some friends, and they get mixed up in some trouble as villains — who are sadly not Swiper the Fox — attempt to track down her parents.
The movie is definitely a bit more grown-up in tone than the Nick Jr. show, which means we probably won’t hear the “Backpack song,” and we likely won’t have to yell “MAP!” at the screen a million times. However, it retains the spirit of the original series, and the Latinx cast, including Isabela, Eva Longoria as her mom, Michael Peña as her father, and iconic actor Danny Trejo as the voice of Boots, is a major score for representation onscreen. Dora and the Lost City of Gold officially debuts in theaters on August 2, so you’ve got some time to dig up your old Dora swag and maybe find a purple backpack to take along on opening day.
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