It is one of the best sequels Pixar’s made. Rental? Do people rent movies anymore? No. They truly concentrate on the story, and co-director Andrew Stanton and his fellow screenwriters Victoria Rouse and Bob Peterson have not only given us a new view of marine life but a story on the human condition that connects. He was struggling with how to create a character with short-term memory loss that did more than just repeat himself. In an effort to find her mom (voice of Diane Keaton) and dad (voice of Eugene Levy), Dory enlists the help of three of the MLI’s most intriguing residents: Hank (voice of Ed O’Neill), a cantankerous octopus who frequently gives employees the slip; Bailey (voice of Ty Burrell), a beluga whale who is convinced his biological sonar skills are on the fritz; and Destiny (voice of Kaitlin Olson), a nearsighted whale shark.
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2003’s Finding Nemo was a special experience. For DeGeneres, it’s a homecoming. “All I know is that I really miss them”, she says, a powerful sentiment that keeps her going even when she’s overwhelmed by her surroundings. Once she started doing her act again, she discovered that, since very publicly coming out, her audience had become 90 percent gay, hoping for more political material than she wrote. Even the throwaway characters are given their moment to bask in the limelight.
Finding Dory, a remarkable sequel and a wonderful film. But that’s not to say they aren’t enjoyable.
See you at the movies! Movie lovers around the world have anxiously been waiting to see what happens to Nemo’s counterpart, Dory in the new film.
Now recalling bits and pieces of her childhood and the close bond she enjoyed with her parents, she elects to cross the ocean in order to locate them, with the reluctant clownfish Marlin (Albert Brooks) and his eager son Nemo (Hayden Rolence) joining her in her seafaring search. Continuing the tradition of squeezing out a few tears from audiences, Pixar once again manipulate you just enough to reach out for your hankie – though the tearjerker moments are more pronounced this time, one of which seeming nearly out of a Dharma movie.
Some of the plot gets a little a repetitive, with characters getting separated a lot, then trying to get back together, all while trying to go unnoticed by all those humans wandering around. “I felt that she was completely unresolved”, Stanton said at a press briefing on the film.
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But when it comes to portraying the angst of existence, this “Finding Nemo” sequel might be the soul-searcher of the year. But interest in Nemo never waned, with a new generation watching it at home and upon its 2012 rerelease.
