Many characters from the first Movie, including Dory, Nemo, Marlin, Mr.
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Finding Dory is rated G.
Do you have a favorite moment from each film? There are some parts that are rather incredulous (including a climax that seems to have been taken straight out of Toy Story 2), but for the most part, Finding Dory just keeps swimming on to warmer and warmer waters.
One can see the sequel contrivances in Finding Dory: the convenient rescues and the overall sameness of the story.
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While the voice actors of Marlin and Dory – Albert Brooks and Ellen DeGeneres – both return, 11-year-old newcomer Hayden Rolence takes over the voice of Nemo from Alexander Gould, who, now 22, has outgrown the role.
Eschewing the pell-mell location pace of the first film, here co-writer/co-director Andrew Stanton, alongside Angus MacLane, confine the action primarily to the marine park, which, like the day care center in Toy Story 3, allows the characters to all interact in relatively tight quarters.
After five or six years, DeGeneres, who had premiered her daytime talk show four months before “Finding Nemo” debuted, came to a conclusion that a sequel was not happening, so she turned into a joke on her show.
Dory, the forgetful blue tang voiced by Ellen DeGeneres, served as the comic relief in 2003’s “Finding Nemo”. I think the way makers presented the movie is good. Dory is looking for her parents, a task made more complicated by the fact that the little fish suffers from short-term memory loss. There’s a brief encounter between Nemo and a giant squid, but the main antagonist is Dory’s own self-doubt, which she eventually conquers with the help of Ed O’Neill’s grumpy seven-legged octopus, Hank (who Dory dubs a septopus – hey, a combination math and Latin lesson!).
Finding Dory is obviously one of this summer’s animated blockbusters and Disney/Pixar are counting on our love of the original film to draw audiences to the movie. It was really just for a sequel.
Numbers aside, Finding Nemo was just a wonderful, wonderful movie. Everybody gets the same thing no matter what job you are doing. “Even animals let their offspring go on their own after they grow up, but not humans”. “I don’t have a secret agenda”. I mean, it’s not exactly Wild Strawberries, but we’re talking about a mentally deficient fish who knows she’s forgotten her entire family, you know?
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“If your ego can take it and if you’re in a healthy enough atmosphere and if you’re not anxious about winning the argument, you can make a movie better”, he said.
