While most of my cartoon diet as a kid was largely populated
by the works of Cartoon Network, Dora The Explorer is something that kept
popping up when my after-school hours were taken up largely by old-school Flash
gaming. In-between side-scrollers about schoolkid secret agents and motion
comics based on Lego properties, I played through a few games featuring one of
Nickelodeon’s premium characters and caught a handful of moments from the TV
show proper.
Knowing how endlessly goofy the framing for the show is,
adapting to the big screen was going to be a challenge for just about any
filmmaker. Thankfully, this is an adaptation that manages to work as cinematic
spectacle without losing touch of what made the series so long-lasting.
