If you thought live action movies from Disney were becoming excessive, Nickelodeon has teamed up with Paramount Pictures to join the party with an ‘original’ movie, starring everyone’s favorite exploradora, Dora. Dora and the Lost City of Gold is set to air in theaters August 2.
Dora (Isabela Moner) is sent away from the jungle to live with her cousin, Diego (Jeffrey Wahlberg), in the city while her parents go find the lost city made entirely out of gold. They decide to enroll Dora into high school where she is starting her first year, which is a “life or death” situation according to her cousin. Apparently, Nickelodeon thinks high school is still a place where being popular reigns supreme. While on a field trip to a museum, Dora and a few other unlucky students are kidnapped and brought back to the jungle to find the city for the antagonists who want all the gold for themselves.
What does that remind me of? Atlantis, Hey Arnold: The Jungle Movie, The Goonies, I can keep going but you get the point.
The entire movie plot is an open and shut case, like every children’s movie ever; it’s safe to assume Dora will have a happy ending. She will be accepted as a normal teenager to this band of unlucky kidnapped children and eventually stays at the high school instead of staying in the jungle with her parents because ‘friendship’. Why did Nickelodeon feel the need to jump onto the hype train of live action movies? Because Disney channel did it to Kim Possible?
Live actions are great, don’t get me wrong, but doing it for everything is becoming excessive and making me wonder if movie companies are losing their original creativity. I am all for sequels, but only when the plot is something I can actually get into and not some generic rerun.
Dora (Isabela Moner) is sent away from the jungle to live with her cousin, Diego (Jeffrey Wahlberg), in the city while her parents go find the lost city made entirely out of gold. They decide to enroll Dora into high school where she is starting her first year, which is a “life or death” situation according to her cousin. Apparently, Nickelodeon thinks high school is still a place where being popular reigns supreme. While on a field trip to a museum, Dora and a few other unlucky students are kidnapped and brought back to the jungle to find the city for the antagonists who want all the gold for themselves.
What does that remind me of? Atlantis, Hey Arnold: The Jungle Movie, The Goonies, I can keep going but you get the point.
The entire movie plot is an open and shut case, like every children’s movie ever; it’s safe to assume Dora will have a happy ending. She will be accepted as a normal teenager to this band of unlucky kidnapped children and eventually stays at the high school instead of staying in the jungle with her parents because ‘friendship’. Why did Nickelodeon feel the need to jump onto the hype train of live action movies? Because Disney channel did it to Kim Possible?
Live actions are great, don’t get me wrong, but doing it for everything is becoming excessive and making me wonder if movie companies are losing their original creativity. I am all for sequels, but only when the plot is something I can actually get into and not some generic rerun.