Is Finding Nemo on Netflix?

The biggest movie about characters with disabilities hits theaters Friday, and if history is any record, it’s likely to be a massive global hit.

There’s just something about that fish. Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres totally stole the 2003 film with her voice acting as Dory – the blue tang fish who has basically no short-term memory. But if you can handle the assault on the feels, rest assured that Pixar has, once again, delivered a whale of a tale. Among its inhabitants is Hank (Ed O’Neill), a hyperactive octopus who agrees to help Dory locate her parents in return for a favor. In this case, it’s Dory’s inability to remember anything. His overprotective father, Marlin (voice of Albert Brooks), has already lost the rest of his family to a barracuda attack, an event that left Nemo with an underdeveloped fin. Kids and adults alike will enjoy going on this unforgettable journey with Dory and her sea of new friends. “Will you forget me?” The movie may have been about Marlin looking for his son Nemo, but without Dory, the search wouldn’t have been quite as fun. She suffers from short term memory loss, and the adventure begins when she suddenly remembers that somewhere out in the vast ocean, she has a family that doesn’t know why she disappeared. Marlin discourages her from going to school because he believes she will be nuisance. Can’t decide what you think of one? “It’s what you do best”.

Owen Gleiberman (Variety): “It’s a film that spills over with laughs (most of them good, a few of them shticky) and tears (all of them earned), supporting characters who are meant to slay us (and mostly do) with their irascible sharp tongues, and dizzyingly extended flights of physical comedy”. A fresh new “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” has just hatched at the multiplex, which will also be hosting another “Captain America”, another “Ice Age”, another “Star Trek”, another Bourne film, an all-women “Ghostbusters”, a remake of “The Magnificent Seven” and a newly revised “Ben-Hur”, directed by Timur Bekmambetov, the Russian-Kazakh director of the gleefully violent “Day Watch”, “Night Watch” and “Wanted”. Paul Dano plays a lonely man stranded on a deserted island who’s ready to take his own life and end his misery – but he has a change of heart when a lively corpse (Daniel Radcliffe) washes ashore. Destiny (Kaitlin Olson), a whale shark who Dory knew as a child, has limited vision, and often bumps into the sides of her tank. Where they see their limitations, Dory sees their variety and their talents. Where do you swim from there?

Ferroni said that pulling fish out of the ocean for sale at a rate faster than they can replace themselves produces population declines that could lead to extinction.

There is a lot riding on the shoulders of Finding Dory considering a whole decade has passed since the first, Finding Nemo. And yeah, we’d have liked to see Sigourney Weaver at some point!

Cue another great adventure, littered with mild peril and new friends, intercut with flashbacks to an unbearably cute, wide-eyed young Dory.