

The thing that surprised me the most about this movie was that it really handled having Dory as the main character very well, and used it to say something important about people (and fish) with special needs. None of the pros above really surprised me (though they were very pro-ish.) I expected the movie to be good, and it really reall was. The story and the script both work very well together and really do give an excellent and familiar feel to the world.Īs with basically every Pixar film it looks great, the fish are (dare we say it) even fishier than before. That’s about the highest praise I can give it, the world and the characters that you fell in love with lo those many years ago are all still here, and all still work very well together. But it’s okay cause now he’s doing this acknowledgement thing.”įinding Dory is a worthy successor to Finding Nemo. He was making an alliteration joke… No, no it wasn’t that funny. So she, Nemo, and Marlin embark on yet another epic trek across the ocean as they learn about families, forgiveness, and falafel… though less so that last one. It’s just kinda weird.Īnyway, Dory remembers suddenly that she has a family and that her family lived somewhere else in the ocean as opposed to where she currently lives… which we don’t know.

I mean I’m not gonna name my child ‘human’ or some other weird type of human like ‘Kardashian’ or ‘Zombie’ or ‘HockeyFan’ or something.

So it’s been a year since the events of Finding Nemo (apparently fish time and human time work on a decade to 1 ratio) and Dory, Nemo, and Marlin (who is a Clownfish) are living happily together in the ocean (somewhere.) Let’s talk real fast about how weird it is that ‘Marlin’ is named after a type of fish. So after ten years of waiting, Disney has finally decided to make a sequel to Finding Nemo and has also decided to release it in a week where 7 of the top 10 movies at the box office are sequels, (and most of those sequels REALLY suck.) So will Finding Dory also give in to the Undertow of suckitude? Will it join Mulan 2, Cinderella 2, and Kronks New Groove in the ever lengthening list of Disney movies that should never have left the “Horrendous Sequel Ideas for Emergencies Only” pile? Let’s find out. Finding Dory: A movie about fish that doesn’t understand how fish work.
