‘Dora The Explorer’ Movie Casts Danny Trejo As Loyal Companion Boots The Monkey
Believe it or not, thatDora the Explorermovie is arriving in theaters late this summer, and we’re about to get a glimpse of what we can expect when the first trailer drops this weekend during the Kids Choice Awards on Nickelodeon. But before the trailer even arrives forDora and the Lost City of Gold, we’ve already got a perplexing piece of information about the adaptation of the animated series for kids.
Yesterday, along with the first theatrical posters for theDora the Explorermovie,MachetestarDanny Trejoconfirmed that he’s providing the voice for Dora’s best animal friend Boots, a money who wears, you guessed it, a machete. Wait. I mean boots! He wears rain boots! But if you look at the Dora the Explorer movie posters, there are no boots to be found on this monkey.
Danny Trejo announced the news in apost on Twitter yesterday,and we couldn’t be more surprised by this. Boots is by no means a character who sounds anything remotely like Danny Trejo in the original animated series. Here’s an idea of Boots as a character from the original Nick Jr. show:
Boots basically sounds like he was voiced by a kid in the original series, but now he’s being voiced by a gruff Mexican American actor best known for playing a character who is a former Mexican Federale turned vigilante who kills people with a machete. That’s quite the change. But that’s not even the biggest change being made to the character.
Check out the two posters forDora and the Lost City of Goldreleased yesterday:
As you’re able to see, if you pay close attention to Boots on both of these posters, there are no damn boots on that monkey. Boots is famous for wearing boots. Is Swiper the Fox not even going to do any swiping in this movie too? Is there no decency in this world anymore? Obviously we’re just kidding. We know decency went out the window a long time ago.
Anyway, we probably shouldn’t get too upset about Boots not having any boots on his feet. Maybe this is an origin story where Boots actually finds the boots he’ll wear for the rest of his life. But what we should be mad about is the tagline for Dora and the Lost City of Gold. Because it says that “Explorer is her middle name.” But that’s a damn lie. Her middle name is “the” and I’ve had enough lies for the past few years that I’m not going to tolerate another one from Nickelodeon.
Dora the the Lost City of GoldstarsIsabela Moneras Dora the Explorer, and the rest of the cast includesEva Longoriaas Elena,Temuera Morrisonas Powell,Jeffrey Wahlbergas Diego,Michael Peñaas Dora’s father,Pia Milleras Diego’s mother,Q’orianka Kilcheras Inca Princess Kawillaka,Eugenio Derbezas Alejandro Gutierrez,Adriana Barrazaas Abuela Valerie,Madeleine Maddenas Sammy, andBenicio Del Toroas Swiper.Dora and the Lost City of Goldhits theaters onAugust 2, 2019. Come back for the trailer this weekend.
