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The friendly but forgetful blue tang fish begins a search for her
long-lost parents, and everyone learns a few things about the real
meaning of family along the way.
Directors: Andrew Stanton,
Angus MacLane
Writers: Andrew Stanton (original story by),
Andrew Stanton (screenplay)
Stars: Ellen DeGeneres,
Albert Brooks,
Ed O'Neill
Storyline
Dory is a wide-eyed, blue tang fish who suffers from memory loss every
10 seconds or so. The one thing she can remember is that she somehow
became separated from her parents as a child. With help from her friends
Nemo and Marlin, Dory embarks on an epic adventure to find them. Her
journey brings her to the Marine Life Institute, a conservatory that
houses diverse ocean species. Dory now knows that her family reunion
will only happen if she can save mom and dad from captivity.
User Reviews
I'll
come out and admit up front that "Finding Nemo" is not one of my
favourite Pixar movies. When it was released I found it quite easily the
least funny Pixar movie to date and, having followed "Monsters Inc.", I
worried that Pixar were shifting their focus to the kids in the
audience without delivering so many of the clever references and gags
that are the core of their appeal to adults. Happily "The Incredibles"
followed the subsequent year, still the best movie the studio has
produced.
Critical reception for "Finding Dory" convinced me to
give it a go, but I wish I had listened to my instincts to avoid this
one. Much like its predecessor, the film is generally lacking in humour
and barely raised a chuckle from me throughout. Not much thought seems
to have gone into making clever gags, exemplified by the oft-mentioned
use of Sigourney Weaver as voice talent. It's like someone at Pixar said
"Hey, wasn't it funny when we had Sigourney Weaver as the voice of the
ship's computer in "WALL-E"? Well, yes, it was - because that was a
clever reference to the film "Alien". Here, no such reference exists, so
it's just unfunny name-dropping.
The lack of humour compounds
upon a really weak story line that is soul-drainingly repetitive. It is
no spoiler to say that the vast majority of this movie consists of the
three main characters being split up on their way somewhere, managing to
get back together again and then immediately being split up again. It
happened over and over again until I was internally screaming at the
film to come to a merciful end. The film's emotional core is a simple
rehash of the original and never rises above the bargain-basement
"Family is good" and "You can do it if you try" tropes of a million
other kids films. It's a far cry from the subtlety exhibited by last
year's "Inside Out".
Possibly most damning of all is the fact
that this movie doesn't even push the visual boundaries of the original.
Considering that it's been 13 years I was expecting to be wowed by some
great underwater visuals, but this film doesn't look any better than
its predecessor. Disappointing to say the least.
Overall this is
definitely one to skip unless its to keep young children occupied for 90
minutes. Given that next year we have an unwanted 3rd "Cars" movie,
we'll have to hope that original IP "Coco" can demonstrate the qualities
that we've come to expect from Pixar - they're in short supply here.
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