Dora: Magic Mermaid Adventures

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Suitable for general audiences (may lack interest over 6)

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This topic contains:

  • overall comments and recommendations
  • details of classification and consumer advice lines for Dora: Magic Mermaid Adventures
  • a review of Dora: Magic Mermaid Adventures completed by the Australian Council on Children and the Media (ACCM) on 23 September 2025.

Overall comments and recommendations

Children under 3 Parental guidance recommended.
Children aged 3 and over Ok for this age group.
Children aged 7 and over Ok for this age group, though may lack interest.

About the movie

This section contains details about the movie, including its classification by the Australian Government Classification Board and the associated consumer advice lines. Other classification advice (OC) is provided where the Australian film classification is not available.

Name of movie: Dora: Magic Mermaid Adventures
Classification: G
Consumer advice lines: General
Length: 56 minutes

ACCM review

This review of the movie contains the following information:

A synopsis of the story

This hour-long special contains four episodes where Dora (voice of Fatima Ptacek) and her trusty sidekick Boots (voiced by Eduardo Aristizabal) meet new friends and help solve a variety of problems. In the first episode, a mermaid called Marisol (voice of Isabela Moner) enlists Dora’s help to solve a sticky situation where seaweed is taking over the underwater city of Sirena Sea and trapping its inhabitants. In the second episode, Dora helps Marisol’s dolphin friend Rosa (voice of Naomi Rosado) to find the perfect gift for their ‘friendiversary’. In the third episode, Dora helps her friends put on a big show after locating the musical instruments that had disappeared. In the final episode, Dora sets off to find her birthday cake after Swiper (voice of Marc Weiner) takes it and, in the process, discovers that all her birthday wishes have already come true.

Themesinfo

Children and adolescents may react adversely at different ages to themes of crime, suicide, drug and alcohol dependence, death, serious illness, family breakdown, death or separation from a parent, animal distress or cruelty to animals, children as victims, natural disasters and racism. Occasionally reviews may also signal themes that some parents may simply wish to know about.

Overcoming obstacles and challenges; Petty theft.

Use of violenceinfo

Research shows that children are at risk of learning that violence is an acceptable means of conflict resolution when violence is glamourised, performed by an attractive hero, successful, has few real life consequences, is set in a comic context and / or is mostly perpetrated by male characters with female victims, or by one race against another.

Repeated exposure to violent content can reinforce the message that violence is an acceptable means of conflict resolution. Repeated exposure also increases the risks that children will become desensitised to the use of violence in real life or develop an exaggerated view about the prevalence and likelihood of violence in their own world.

There is some violence in this movie, including:

  • A clam tries to bite Swiper.

Material that may scare or disturb children

Under fiveinfo

Children under five are most likely to be frightened by scary visual images, such as monsters, physical transformations.

  • Nothing further noted for this age group.

Aged five to eightinfo

Children aged five to eight will also be frightened by scary visual images and will also be disturbed by depictions of the death of a parent, a child abandoned or separated from parents, children or animals being hurt or threatened and / or natural disasters.

  • Nothing further noted.

Product placement

  • None noted.

Sexual references

  • None noted.

Nudity and sexual activity

  • None noted.

Use of substances

  • None noted.

Coarse language

  • None noted.

In a nutshell

Dora: Magic Mermaid Adventures is a vibrant, animated adventure blending traditional Dora the Explorer charm with new whimsical characters and many, small musical numbers. The film is best suited to children between the ages of three to six.

The main messages from this movie are that when we work together, we can solve any problem and that even if things get tricky (or sticky) we should keep calm, be creative and never give up.

Values in this movie that parents may wish to reinforce with their children include:

  • Teamwork
  • Cooperation
  • Friendship
  • Helpfulness
  • Creativity.

This movie could also give parents the opportunity to discuss with their children the importance of being helpful, cooperative and friendly and working hard to make each day better than the one before it.