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Finding Dory (2016), directed by Andrew Stanton

7/5/2016

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Entertaining fluff, but nothing more. One year after the events of Finding Nemo, Dory (Ellen DeGeneres) searches for her parents, from whom she was separated as a child. The magic is gone, of course, and with it the vastness of the ocean: most of the action in this film takes place in and around California's Marine Life Institute. The humor, too, is more repetitive, with endless variations on Dory's short-term memory loss. But most significantly, the film lacks the gravitas of Nemo, as we discover that a quest to find one's self-sufficient parents is much less compelling than one to find a missing child, even when the journey is really one of self-discovery. Pleasant enough, though, on its own terms.

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7/7/2016 05:29:20 am

I was never a big Finding Nemo fan, so this obvious money grab had 0 appeal for me.
I'm usually willing to give pixar movies at least one viewing [like Wall-E] but this, no.
Despicable Me, on the other hand, I ate up with a spoon, and the same for all the sequels :-)

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Brian
7/7/2016 12:32:54 pm

I'm not Pixar's biggest fan. I didn't much like Toy Story and that film or one of the sequels made me angry about how it depicted a rotten kid, but I forget the details. Despicable Me...I was iffy on that one. Minions...low iffy on that one. Wall-E was okay. Most I've only seen portions of thanks to my kids watching them. But, yeah, I loved Finding Nemo (mostly because of Albert Brooks, though Ellen DeGeneres was also very good). As a parent, I'm not at all like Brooks in the film. And yet I am. He was very funny.

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