After years of wishing that Dora would just speak in her indoor voice after shouting, "Do you see the bridge?" hopes weren't exactly soaring for this live-action movie.

The first trailer for "Dora and the Lost City of Gold," however, is funny and rolling with high-stakes action. Dora throws a knife! The movie even keeps the best part of Nickelodeon's animated series, Dora's trusty sidekick Boots, voiced by Danny Trejo. Except, curiously, he isn't wearing boots, which we're hoping will be explained.

Isabela Moner plays the earnest teen adventurer, and you can't go wrong with Eva Longoria ("Dog Days," "Desperate House Wives") and Michael Pena ("Ant Man and the Wasp" and "Narcos") as her parents.

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In the Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon trailer, we first find Dora sidelined with her cousin Diego (Jeffrey Wahlberg) in high school, which is a difficult adjustment after living in the jungle. Especially when you have a purple backpack filled with helpful jungle equipment like flares, and it gets stuck in the door as the school bus drives off.

Then Dora and her classmates are kidnapped. Criminals force Dora to help them find the Lost City of Gold – which her parents, whom Dora attempts to save, also happen to be searching for.

Vamanos!

"Dora the Lost City of Gold" opens in theaters Aug. 2.

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