If a flawed family-friendly movie can kindle the audience’s curiosity in pre-Columbian civilizations, that’s a net positive. And that’s just the effect that the brightly colored “Dora and the Search for Sol Dorado” could have, considering that the filmmakers embedded factual knowledge about the Incas into an “Indiana Jones and Temple of Doom”-like quest.
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. Different from the 2019 theatrical film “Dora and the Lost City of
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