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‘Dora and the Search for Sol Dorado’ Review: Harmless Reboot Highlights Inca Culture and Expected Family-Friendly Tropes
A charming Samantha Lorraine plays the adventure-seeking Latina heroine in mildly amusing, at times visually perplexing romp aimed at young audiences.
From director Alberto Belli(“The Naughty Nine”) and writer JT Billings (“Are You Afraid of the Dark?”), Nickelodeon’s mostly harmless, straight-to-streaming live-action reboot based on the popular preschool animated show “ Dora the Explorer ” digs into the origins of the heroine’s passion for discovery. After discovering that Camila, her childhood idol, has turned into a selfish treasure hunter in search of a powerful Inca bracelet, Dora, Diego, his ex-girlfriend Naiya (Mariana Garzón Toro) and her kid brother Sonny (Acston Luca Porto) escape her henchmen and slowly collect the charms that will guide them closer to Sol Dorado, a force that will grant them one wish. And yet, even with those unflattering visual glitches and less-than-original tropes at play, that a movie with a bilingual Latina lead, where Indigenous cultures from the Americas have a prominent place and are celebrated, might reach millions of households in this country at this current moment in time has great value beyond its artistic shortcomings.
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