Thursday, August 08, 2019

'Dora and the Lost City of Gold' Follows the Latest End Credits Trend in Movies

Dora the Explorer is swinging into theatres this summer in Dora and the Lost City of Gold, Nickelodeon Movies and Paramount Players' brand-new live-action movie inspired by Nickelodeon's beloved animated preschool series, which sees an older Dora (Isabela Moner) go on all-new adventures. However, will the movie feature a post-credits scene? Read on to find out! (Caution: spoilers ahead!)


Post-credits scenes in movies have become a trend in recent years, often giving fans an Easter egg or hints at what the sequel might be about. However, Dora and the Lost City of Gold will reportedly be bucking the trend - although the credits themselves will be a treat for fans!

Instead of following the trend in post-credit scenes, the movie will instead be following a different trend: a group dance number! The credits open with the main characters doing a massive dance number at their high school, with Dora finally winning over the classmates that previously mocked her. It’s a fun scene that fans are sure to love. Once the number is over, the credits begin to roll.

Fully choreographed dance numbers have become the norm in movies, with Ghostbusters: Answer the Call, Zootopia, Trolls, and Sing all closing out with songs performed by the characters. Even the newest Peanuts movies featured Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the rest of the gang dancing to Meghan Trainor. While it’s a trend that was first popularized with Shrek nearly two decades ago, the end credits dance number appears to be more popular than ever.

Dora’s going on her biggest adventure yet in Dora the Explorer, inspired by Nickelodeon's beloved animated preschool series Dora the Explorer, swinging into theatres across the U.S. from Friday, August 9! #DoraMovie Click the following link to watch the latest trailer!: http://nickalive.blogspot.com/2019/07/dora-and-lost-city-of-gold-2019-new.html


Having spent most of her life exploring the jungle with her parents, nothing could prepare Dora (Isabela Moner) for her most dangerous adventure ever – High School. Always the explorer, Dora quickly finds herself leading Boots (her best friend, a monkey), Diego (Jeffrey Wahlberg), a mysterious jungle inhabitant (Eugenio Derbez), and a rag tag group of teens on a live-action adventure to save her parents (Eva Longoria, Michael Peña) and solve the impossible mystery behind a lost city of gold.

11-time Emmy and four-time BAFTA nominee director James Bobin (Alice Through the Looking Glass) has assembled a cast of diverse superstars to star in the movie, including: Isabela Moner (100 Things to Do Before High School, Legends of the Hidden Temple, Transformers: The Last Knight) as Dora, Eva Longoria (Desperate Housewives, Overboard) and Michael Peña, who play the parents of the titular character; Eugenio Derbez (Overboard, Instructions Not Included; How to Be A Latin Lover), who plays Alejandro, a mysterious jungle inhabitant who tries to protect the teenagers from the marauders; Jeffrey Wahlberg (Future World, Ballers, Counterpart, Reefa) in the role of cousin Diego; Nicholas Coombe (Spy Kids: Mission Control, Midnight Sun) as Randy, a fellow high schooler who develops an immediate crush on Dora; Madeleine Madden (Picnic at Hanging Rock, Tidelands) as the school’s snooty class president, Sammy; Academy Award nominee Adriana Barraza (Babel, Amores Perros, Thor, The 33) as Dora’s grandma, Abuelita Valerie; Temuera Morrison (Green Lantern, Moana), who will play the role of Powell; Q’orianka Kilcher (The Alienist), who will play Inca Princess Kawillaka; Pia Miller (Home and Away) as Dora's aunt Mami; Madelyn Miranda, who portrays Young Dora; Benicio del Toro as the voice of Swiper the fox, Danny Trejo as the voice of Boots the Monkey; and Marc Weiner (Dora the Explorer, Go, Diego, Go!, Dora and Friends: Into the City, Weinerville) as the voice of Map.

Tickets for Dora and the Lost City of Gold are available to purchase now!

Nickelodeon will be celebrating Dora the Explorer's 20th anniversary in 2020.

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Does Dora and the Lost City of Gold have a post-credits scene?

When it was announced that the classic Nickelodeon kids' show Dora the Explorer was getting the live-action treatment, with a full-length film featuring a high-school-aged Dora, people could hardly believe it. Over time, though, they've started to warm to the idea of this new movie. Now that Dora and the Lost City of Gold is upon us, hype is actually quite high, and audiences are starting to wonder whether the film will cement itself as a legitimate summer movie with one key element almost all other blockbusters feature: an end-credits scene. 

So, does Dora and the Lost City of Gold have a post-credits scene?

The simple answer is "yes."

Warning: We're about to get into some mild spoilers for Dora and the Lost City of Gold. 

According to Raising Whasians, those who head out to see Dora and the Lost City of Gold should "be prepared for a plethora of familiar singing Dora moments — all of which will undoubtedly get stuck in your head." Anyone who grew up watching Dora the Explorer on Nickelodeon will want to keep their butts in their seats until after the credits roll, when an after-credits scene plays out and gives a "small nod to the show." 

Per AfterCredits.com, this end-credits stinger features the Fiesta Trio — a musical group comprised of a little blue frog, a small orange cricket, and a tiny pink-and-purple snail — coming out and playing the fanfare music as heard on Dora the Explorer. Within the series, the Fiesta Trio would arrive when Dora and her monkey sidekick Boots would finish a mission. The three creatures would play an eight-note tune to congratulate the heroes, and then would scurry away. 

Though it isn't a traditional post-credits scene that caps off Dora and the Lost City of Gold and teases a potential sequel (as most stingers do), the sequence is still pretty cute. Whether or not it's worth sticking around for is up to audiences' discretion, but small children and anyone who is a hardcore Dora the Explorer fan (hey, no judgment here) will likely get a kick out of the end-credits moment. 

If you don't feel like sitting through several minutes of scrolling text to witness a small tip of the hat to Nickelodeon's Dora the Explorer, Dora and the Lost City of Gold actually features a pre-credits scene as well. It's a choreographed song-and-dance number in which the film's main characters assemble at their high school and sing the famous Dora song "We Did It." At the end of the film, the peers who once poked fun at Dora are now her friends and the high-stakes mission to unravel the mystery of the lost Inca civilization is complete, so "We Did It" is certainly an apt song to sing.

Directed by James Bobin, Dora and the Lost City of Gold follows Dora (Isabela Moner) as she leaves the jungle and heads to public high school. But her exploring ways and her life in the wilderness catches up to her, thrusting her into chaos and sending her on a dangerous journey. With her monkey best friend Boots, her cousin Diego (Jeffrey Wahlberg), the jungle-dweller Alejandro Gutierrez (Eugenio Derbez), and a group of students from her new school, Dora must crack the case of the lost city of gold and rescue her parents (Eva Longoria, Michael Peña) before it's too late. 

Dora and the Lost City of Gold hits theaters on Friday, August 9.

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