Movie Review: Finding Dory (2016) – it’s A-DORY-ble!

Plot: The friendly-but-forgetful blue tang fish reunites with her loved ones, and everyone learns a few things about the real meaning of family along the way

Rating: 7.5/10

What I liked:

• The short film: You have to have had a cold hard for a very long time if you did not enjoy that little bird. I died a little inside of the cuteness. The terror was real, the happiness and discovery and adventure was real, and the insane happiness at the end made me so damn pleased.

• Baby Dory. GAASSSHH. The big eyes. The baby voice. The remembery loss. Everything.
• The happy family unit that Dory had and how her parents accepted her disability.
• Marlin, the clownfish with wrinkles. He’s so worrisome, and just wants to protect his son. Albert Brooks did fantastic work with his voice work here.
• Hank (Ed O’Neill) – I liked the character but gosh I find octopuses and their tentacles really disgusting.
• Dory – Ellen DeGeneres is amazing with returning as the ever forgetful fish. I think all grownups would acknowledge that a Dory would be really annoying in your personal life but still is really cute on screen.

• Nemo – not really the character, he was never the main focus, but that small little fin is so frigging cute.
• The CUTENESS – obviously I found everything in here really damn cute. However, it isn’t so cute that I wanted to retch.
• I really love this animation. I don’t always love movies with animated pictures, but there are a few that I watched as a child and preteen that I will love until the end of time. Finding Nemo is one of those films, and I am glad that Pixar made a second film.
• The end: I was like AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH when Dory finds her parents. They loved her so much.
• And lastly: near sighted whales and Beluga wales with connectivity issues? HILAR
• Pixar and Disney is on top form with this film. The graphics are beautiful.

What I didn’t like:

• About the only thing I didn’t enjoy was how preposterous the last few scenes became and that the film became drawn out in its’ conclusion. I mean how many obstacles can one fish really take?
• Finding Dory made me think really hard about aqariums. They have some strong social commentary in there that only adults will pick up on, but really, life of fish in closed tanks look awful.

Literally, a school of fish

That’s about it. I was really excited to watch this film because I just love the original. I wasn’t disappointed in the least, and it is worth venturing out for.

 

June 27, 2016June 26, 2016 by Natasha Categories: 2016, Movies, movies, Review, Reviews, UncategorizedTags: Albert Brooks, animation, Aquarium, Beluga Whale, Clownfish, Disney, Ed O'Neill, Ellen DeGeneres, Finding Dory, Finding Nemo, Fish, Pixar 8 Comments