At last, after 13 long years, the sequel to 1 of the most outstanding Disney-Pixar animated movies Finding Nemo finally materialized. And what better way then to put the spotlight on the partner of Marlin, our favorite blue colored fish with short term memory loss, Dory with her iconic saying "just keep swimming"? As my wife and I already committed that we shall see this movie together, we wait until both of us are available which happened to be just last night. We decided to watch in 3D and using a promotion from a bank where we could buy 1 free ticket for purchase of 1 ticket, we could sit in a very cool cinema with only 15 reclining seats in 1 theater. As usual with all Disney-Pixar movies, there was a short movie before the movie starts titled Piper about a very young bird learning how to look for its own food in the beach
Brief Story Line
Movie started with young Dory who was being taught by her mom and dad never to get caught up in the short wave of the ocean and also how to locate their house in case she forgotten by following the shells which would lead her to her home. Dory as a cute small fish with her very big eyes and cute voice was very worried if she forget her parents, but they assured her she would never forget. One day, Dory was somehow separated from her parents and she was stranded by herself. Panic and could not remember, she anxiously ask every other sea animals around her about her parents and her home. Due to her short term memory loss, she later would forget what she was asking and the other animals could not help her. She did this all the time until she was mature (voiced by Ellen DeGeneres) and met Marlin (voiced by Albert Brooks - The Simpsons Movie, Drive etc) who was looking for his son Nemo. You know the rest of that story.
Story moved to current time, where Nemo and the younger children were learning from Mr. Ray about fish migrating to their home town. Dory started to have memory of her home and decided that she would look for it. Nemo encouraged his father to assist Dory in finding her home which she remembered somewhere in California. With the help from turtles from the previous story, they reached California where Dory because of her excitement of sudden memory recollection of her parents, started to shout their names and resulted to them being chased by a large squid. Marlin scolded Dory because of the danger she brought on to Nemo with very strong words that made Dory felt guilty and wandered by herself. She was caught by some people who were working in a marine life institute nearby.
Dory was being tagged in the institute where she met a seven legged octopus named Hank (voiced by Ed O'Neill - Modern Family tv series) who was hoping to get tagged so he could be sent to Cleveland where he would be staying there without ever being put in the ocean. But Dory who just realized that the institute was her home, asked Hank to help her find her parents before she would agree to give her tag. Hank who was rather desperate finally agreed to help Dory.
Meanwhile, Marlin who felt guilty after being highlighted by Nemo that his words were very hurtful to Dory, were confused where to look for Dory. They finally met 2 sea lions who suggested that Dory would be brought to the marine life institute and advised them to look for Dory there.
So Nemo and Marlin would embark their journey to finding Dory. While Dory also embarked on her own journey together with Hank to locate her parents. Can Nemo and his father find Dory and can Dory finally meet her parents? And if Dory indeed find her parents, what would happen to Nemo, Marlin and Dory's relationship? Find them all in this lovely adventure movie.
End of Brief Story Line
I really enjoyed this movie, and my wife especially loved it. There were many touching moments in this film and the story was very lovely. It was a simple enough movie, no need to over think how fish or octopus or any others could do the stuffs they did in this film. Just enjoy them and feel those loving moments.
There were some new characters that were also quite fun to watch such as Destiny a whale shark with near sight problem (voiced by Kaitlin Olson), my personal favorite: Bailey, a beluga whale with specialty of ecolocation (voiced by Ty Burrel) and of course Becky the bird. The 2 sea lions also have some noteworthy parts in the movie (voiced by Idris Elba and Dominic West).
This is certainly a movie of all ages. Young children would love the colorful ocean, the fun adventure, the cute fishes, while the more adult can just enjoy the drama and learn a thing or two perhaps from Dory's parents' unconditional love. This can even be recommended as dating movie.
Last but not least, please do not leave your seat till the very end. There was a funny scene after the end credit completed, which would be too bad to miss.
Mike's movie moments rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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