Filmology Rating: 3.1 out of 4

 

Dory suffers from short term memory loss as we all know from the previous film; so long term memory is an even bigger struggle. However, something has jogged her memory and she remembered that she has parents and lost them as a small fishy years ago. Dory, Marlin, and Nemo are off to try and find her long lost parents and her home!

Sorry this review has been so late! It has taken me a long time to actually have time to see this movie but I finally was able to so here it is folks. Finding Nemo was one of my favorite animated movies while growing up and I still consider it one of my favorites today. 13 years after the original, a sequel has finally come out. While I wouldn’t consider this as good as the original, it still is a very solid animated film that is fun for the whole family.

Finding Dory has a lot of the same awesome characteristics of the Finding Nemo. We have an excellent voice cast, brilliant animation, humor that both kids and adults will enjoy, and amazing visual effects and color scheme. Finding Dory very much lives up to all of these categories. Then adding to some of these we have some great new characters, specifically baby Dory who was absolutely adorable and Hank the octopus. Each one I really did like a lot and helped this sequel feel like it had some new life.

Where Finding Dory falls behind is the plot. For me, Finding Nemo had a very strong sense of urgency and intensity. I feel that it is far more emotionally engaging for a father to be looking for his son than it is for an adult fish to want to find her home again. I really do get the sense of longing to go home and to find your parents again but the intensity just wasn’t as strong as it was in the first film. Don't get me wrong, I thought the writing and dialogue was fantastic once again, I just didn’t get the same feels that I did during the climactic emotional climax they want you to feel in this one. Very well written, good story, but just not as emotional as the first.

Overall, you have a really fast paced story that will have you laughing, engaged, and entertained for the 100 minute movie. Not quite as good as the first one but still very much worth seeing.

Rating: See It 

-Nick