Finding Dory is the sequel to 2003's Finding Nemo and Dory (Ellen DeGeneres) starts getting flahses of her life as a young fish living with her parents so she decides to travel the Ocean in order to go and find them but Marlin (Albert Brooks) and Nemo worry that with her short term memory loss she might get lost along the way.
FInding Dory is a fun adventure but it is also just another sequel that is not as good as the first film, I will say however that the animation is stunning and DeGeneres is wonderful in the film, she really has a great vocal range that is used to maximum effect, I also liked Ed O'Neill (ALLLL) as Hank the Octopus and Brooks is also good fun as Marlin though he will always be Hank Scorpio from the Simpsons to me.
But the storytelling overall in this film is just not as good as it was in Finding Nemo, in that film you really felt the sense of the journey, a quest across the great and vast Ocean for this 1 tiny Fish that could be anywhere and along that road lurked danger at every potential turn whereas here it kinda feels like everything goes in circles and as fun as the new characters are after a while they kinda lost some of their interest for me.
There is also a short film before the feature called Piper about a little bird who lives near the tide on the Beach and it is very very charming and cute with some truly terrific animation that reminded me a lot of some of the old Walt Disney shorts prior to Mickey and Co coming on the scene.
And so that was Finding Dory sadly another example of the world we live in where 8 in 10 sequels just aren't as good as the first film but still it is worth seeing, 2 and a half out of 5.
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