It’s enough to make even the most cynical viewers smile from end to end, even if you’re only watching because the kids made you take them. It’s heartwarming, profound, hilarious, gorgeously animated and delightfully amusing, serving as both a wonderful extension of the original and a story good enough to stand on its own.
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Finding Dory is now showing in both local and worldwide theaters. “Finding Nemo” had a similar message as Marlin was overprotective of Nemo due to his small fin, and here we see him protective and at times dismissive of Dory due to her short term memory loss. The film features a running joke involving the “real” Sigourney Weaver as the voice of a California aquarium, specializing in “Rescue, Rehabilitation and Release”, where Dory goes in an attempt to be reunited with her parents. The animation is just as exquisite as it is in “Dory”, possibly more so because it tilts a little further toward the realistic, and the plotline is so adorable I want to cuddle it. Dory, the blue tang fish, suffers from short-term memory loss, and despite good parenting, gets caught in a current and separated from her parents.
Finding Nemo, of course, deserves huge credit for building the foundation for Dory’s popularity now. Though the movie opens with a few snippets of that past, the bulk of the story starts a year after the events of “Finding Nemo”. The film again stars Finding Nemo leads, Ellen DeGeneres as Dory and Albert Brooks as Marlin. But it is also yet another gem from the geniuses at Disney-owned Pixar Studios.
Modern Family co-stars Ed O’Neill and Ty Burrell voice new sea characters, Hank the octopus and Bailey the beluga whale. She’s in for a rough time since she doesn’t know where she’s going and she doesn’t remember where she came from!
I honestly didn’t think they could top 2003’s FINDING NEMO, and they certainly did.
In 2003 Finding Nemo became a well-known fixture in the minds of parents and children, and I’m happy to say Finding Dory is a handsome, wonderful sequel. Her parents Jenny (Diane Keaton) and Charlie (Eugene Levy), with whom she dwells in a forest of undulating kelp, are frightened for her and her ability to survive.
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Lots of these situations are because of Hank, a septopus (a seven tentacled octopus) who helps bring Dory around much of the Institute. In a dire scene, Dory is caught up in those very bad vinyl rings that hold soft drinks but can be deadly to sea life.
