The Weirdest Thing About the Dora the Explorer Movie Is that It's Real

Luke Darby
Dora and Diego are grown up in a trailer that actually exists and isn't a bit, seriously.

So, first of all, yes, there's apparently a live action movie based on Dora the Explorer, a Nickelodeon children's show so popular that there's almost no chance you haven't heard of it before. There's a monkey, some jungle exploration, language learning, on the whole not a bad show if you're stuck babysitting.

But a live action Dora the Explorer movie sounds like a gag, like Funny or Die's Captain Planet reboot starring Don Cheadle, or an actual live action Dora the Explorer that College Humor put out years ago. Granted there's a massive market for nostalgia-driven content, like an upcoming Scooby Doo movie and, you know, all of Stranger Things, but it's not really clear who Dora and the Lost City of Gold is for, beyond maybe people who wanted confirmation that Dora would grow up into Lara Croft from Tomb Raider.

Anyway, the trailer has no Spanish lessons and no moments where Dora asks us the viewers to help her locate anything on screen, but it does have a terrifying CGI monkey sidekick, so there's some great accidental horror scenes to look forward to.