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Finding Dory

2016 Directed by Andrew Stanton, Angus MacLane

An unforgettable journey she probably won't remember.

Dory is reunited with her friends Nemo and Marlin in the search for answers about her past. What can she remember? Who are her parents? And where did she learn to speak Whale?

Ellen DeGeneres Albert Brooks Hayden Rolence Ed O'Neill Diane Keaton Eugene Levy Kaitlin Olson Ty Burrell Idris Elba Dominic West Kate McKinnon Bill Hader Andrew Stanton Torbin Xan Bullock Bennett Dammann Bob Peterson Alexander Gould Katherine Ringgold John Ratzenberger Angus MacLane Willem Dafoe Brad Garrett Allison Janney Austin Pendleton Stephen Root Vicki Lewis Jerome Ranft Sloane Murray Lucia Geddes Show All…

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Review by davidehrlich ★★★½ 16

It’s official: Pixar is corrupting our children. Thanks to “Finding Dory,” a new generation of impressionable kids — many of whom were too young to be properly indoctrinated by the mediocrity of “Cars 2” and “Monsters University” — will grow up thinking that sequels can be good, natural things that shouldn’t be protested against on principle (it’s “Adam and Eve,” not “Adam and Adam 2: Genisys”!). These innocent souls are too sheltered to appreciate how much of an anomaly this is in a year that’s already punished audiences with blockbuster cash-ins like “London Has Fallen” and “Alice Through the Looking Glass.” But now, thanks to the monsters behind Pixar’s latest and best sequel in years, the leaders of tomorrow across the world will come of age with the delusional belief that sequels aren’t de facto cash-ins, but rather films that are capable of retroactively adding new dimensions to beloved originals.

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Review by Todd Gaines ★★★½ 36

It's time to go find Dory, in this cleverly titled sequel to PIXAR's Finding Nemo.

I'm in no way attached to Finding Nemo. I grew up with Ghostbusters, Goonies, and Breakfast Club. I literally give zero fucks if Nemo gets eaten by a shark or not. But, I do understand Nemo is a heartwarming story of a father's journey to find his lost son. But, I'm not a heartless bastard. I do like the ganja smokin' turtle, Crush, and I'm glad he makes an appearance in Finding Dory.

Now, Finding Dory might be lighthearted fun, but it does have an important message. I know a lot of my audience sometimes feels fuckin' blue. Life might seem unfair. You're going through…
Review by Arielrocks5 ★★★★ 54

Well! I'll be damned!

Here I was thinking that I just growing out of Pixar, since I've been left with nothing but disappointment in their last few efforts ("Inside Out", "The Good Dinosaur", etc) and what with the very idea of a follow up to one of my favorite films of all time was already a tip off to lack of creative ideas under the hood.

Yet for a film that practically has no real reason to exist, "Finding Dory" is not just probably my biggest surprise of the year, it might be my favorite effort from the studio in recent memory (no pun intended), with a surprising amount of thematic depth and character weight to keep it above the…
Review by SilentDawn ★★★★½ 4

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

88/100

"No. No, you can't... STOP. Please don't go away. Please? No one's ever stuck with me for so long before. And if you leave... if you leave... I just, I remember things better with you. I do, look. P. Sherman, forty-two... forty-two... I remember it, I do. It's there, I know it is, because when I look at you, I can feel it. And-and I look at you, and I... and I'm home. Please... I don't want that to go away. I don't want to forget."

- Dory, Finding Nemo

It's one thing to have a sequel complete and enrich its predecessor so fully, pumping fresh blood into its veins to heighten the typically snappy and kinetic formula that…
Review by Wesley R. Ball ★★★★½ 11

Why oh why did we receive a Cars sequel before a follow-up to Finding Nemo? What could have possibly gone through Pixar's collective heads that made them sincerely believe that a sequel centered on a hillbilly tow truck would be demanded by audiences sooner than a continuation of arguably one of their most beautiful films? I guess I don't mind so much that Pixar has been trending lately by creating sequels to their original films instead of creating all-new original stories (with obvious exceptions), but they really should be careful so as not to make them nostalgia-focused cash grabs and actually memorable sequels. I had some fears that Finding Dory would simply be a rehash of the first film, and…
Review by Matt Singer ★★★½

Feels familiar in ways both good and bad. Stanton nails all the classic Pixar emotional beats, and brings back most of the studio’s greatest thematic hits: Like so many of the studio’s previous features, Dory is a story about the unbreakable bonds between parents and children, mismatched partners bonding over the course of a long adventure, and the pleasures of a team working together to achieve a common goal. After 21 years, that formula is still very satisfying. But it also feels more like a formula than ever before.

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Recent reviews

Review by gamernes9 ★★★½

this movie was never going to be as good as Finding Nemo, but it follows up the first well and is mostly solid, except for the ending.
Review by emmacook62 ★★★★★

the actual act of seeing this movie at the el capitan in LA was so much fun and the movie was so amazing so this brings back so many good memories
Review by Silja Lin ★★

I don't like Pixar movies but I can't exactly say that they're without merit either.
They're just not my cup of tea.
This one is pretty much everything that I don't like about Pixar movies, especially when it comes to the high energy, silly humor. I mostly cringe or roll my eyes when they try to be funny in this film - which is all the time - and it makes the film a less enjoyable experience to me.
I liked the idea of Dory actually being born in captivity, that was a nice twist, but I didn't really care about much of was going on. The high energy of the action scenes and the dialogue exchanges between characters grew…
Review by CakeBug Tranch ★★

It's a sad irony that this film is so entirely forgettable.
Review by Frances Acevedo ★★★★

Aw
Review by SoDak12 ★★

Fun for my kid, definitely not Little Nemo.
Review by jcsmith

It's enjoyable, but it's going from one place to the next in a small unattractive "Marine Life Institute" and the memory plot device and especially the sudden flashbacks that conveniently lead her on her way, feel a little tired. It has heart, mostly good humor from what I remember and characters that are good, but not Pixar good.
Review by Lydia ★★★★

I might have been able to figure out in .2 seconds what the significance of the shells was gonna be, but did that stop this bitch from crying??
Review by StefanieLavigne ★★

It wasn't really special. But it's nice to watch when you have enough time and when you're bored lol