Have your young children sing and dance with Dora and Boots in “Dora the Explorer: Dora Rocks!”. Featuring three fun, educational episodes!
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DVD TITLE: Dora the Explorer: Dora Rocks!
DURATION: 69 minutes
DVD INFORMATION: Full screen format, Dolby Digital – English Stereo
COMPANY: Nickelodeon/Paramount
RATED: NOT RATED
RELEASE DATE: June 14, 2013
Created by Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh Valdes and Eric Weiner
Executive Producer: Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh Valdes
Story Editor: Rosemary Contreras
Supervising Producer: Jeff DeGrandis
Producer: Miken Wong, Marc Amiel
Supervising Directors/Consulting Producers: Kuni Tomita, Henry Lenardin-Madden
Directed by George Cialtas, Allan Jacobsen
Featuring the voices of:
Fatima Ptacek as Dora/Flowers
Regan Mizrahi as Boots/Bushes
Aidan Gemme as Benny/Coconut Tree/Animals
Oscar Hutarra as Tico/Animals
Skai Jackson as Isa/Animals
Mike Smith Rivera as Boat/Rocks/Animals
Alexandria Suarez as Backpack/Mango Tre/Animals
Marc Weiner as Map/Swiper/Fiesta Trio
Join dora and Boots on a Sing-Along adventure! Plus, bring Baby Bongo to his first music show and meet Map’s nephew, Little Map!
It’s that time again for a new “Dora the Explorer” DVD and this time, your young children can rock out, sing and dance with Dora and Boots in “Dora the Explorer: Dora Rocks!”.
Featuring three episodes, “Dora the Explorer: Dora Rocks!” includes the following episodes
- Dora Rocks! – Benny forgets to send invitations for his Sing-Along Party. Dora and boots need your help taking their microphone to his barn so they can call everyone to the fiesta!
- Baby Bongo’s Big Music Show – Dora and Boots try to help Baby Bongo get to the Big Music Show.
- Little Map – Map has taught Little Map how to draw pictures for adventures. Is Little Map ready to father his father’s footsteps?
VIDEO & AUDIO:
“Dora the Explorer: Dora Rocks!” have headed to a new direction animated wise in the past year as the animation has become so much cleaner. The backgrounds are well-detailed and CG generated. Even Dora, Boots and friends seem to have more shading for their colors and more frame animations. Even the map is now entirely in CG. The special is presented in full screen but is vibrant with the bright colors.
The bonus episodes also feature a more CG art backgrounds but you can tell that with “Dora’s Easter Adventure”, the production for the Easter episode is more detailed and vibrant.
Audio is presented in Dolby Digital and dialogue and music is crystal clear.
“Dora the Explorer: Egg Hunt” features episodes from 2004, so picture quality is not as good as vibrant “Dora’s Easter Adventure”. There is a bit of compression but children will more than likely not care about the picture quality. Audio is clear and understandable.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
“Dora the Explorer: Dora Rocks!” comes with no special features.
I know for my family and I would assume for many other families, “Dora the Explorer” has helped a lot of children. May it be to introduce them to Spanish or increasing their decision making skills, the series continues to be popular in America and in other countries.
And with the release of the “Dora the Explorer: Dora Rocks!”, the series takes a bold step forward in terms of look and quality. I am not exactly sure if this is how “Dora the Explorer” will look from here on in but if so, parents will happy to know that the series features better animation and backgrounds that are detailed and colors that are much more vibrant. I was pretty impressed with how things look and you will definitely notice a bump up in animation and art backgrounds.
While the DVD does not come with extra special features, you do get two bonus episodes with “Baby Bongo’s Big Music Show” and “Little Map”.
My young son literally grew up in his young toddler years watching Dora and through this series, it was very helpful in helping him develop skills on decision making and also learning a little Spanish. And I’m a true believer that these educational children’s shows is one of the reasons why he is doing so well in school.
I can easily remember watching him and seeing him really get into the series and taking part in the challenges. And now he’s older, doing exceptionally well in school but he has done well since kindergarten and even pre-school and I would like to think that children’s series such as “Dora the Explorer” were one of the reasons for why he is doing well.
Where most of the “Dora the Explorer” TV shows have been instrumental in teaching children Spanish and counting as well as teamwork, the same can be said about this latest DVD.
Overall, “Dora the Explorer: Dora Rocks!” is another fun and educational DVD for parents or relatives looking for safe, educational episodes for their young child. Recommended!