Finding Dory Review

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    Finding Dory swam into theaters June 17th, 2016. It opened up to a huge success and is one of the first animated films to gross high income. Finding Dory opens up with a baby Dory and her parents. The story reveals that Dory (Ellen DeGeneres) suffers from short term memory loss, like in the first film. Her parents struggle to keep her focused, and due to an unfortunate event, Dory gets swept from the undertow and looses her parents. She is lost in a kelp forest and swims around the ocean to find her parents. In this heartbreaking scene, we see Dory searching and growing up still search for her parents. The story continues and clashes with the first film. We see Dory meet Marlin( Albert Brooks) and the exposition for the first act ends there.

  One year later we see Dory, Marlin, and Nemo (Hayden Rolence) in their home sleeping. Dory eagerly wakes them up to start their day. They take Nemo to school for his field trip. Dory accompanies Nemo on the field trip to the Sting Ray Migration. Dory gets swept from the undertow and currents the stingrays cause due to the flapping of their fins and causes her to remember something from her past. This causes Dory to convince Marlin and Nemo to go to Morro Bay and find her parents. They travel through the EAC with Crush all the way to California.

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   After an encounter with a sea monster they end up in the kelp forest. Marlin, upset with Dory, says things he did not mean to say and causes Dory to go up on shore. She gets captured by two humans and take her inside Marine Life Institute in Morro Bay. Nemo and Marlin confront two sea lions (Dominic West and Idris Elba) who explain to Marlin and Nemo what the MLI is all about: Rescue, Rehabilitation, and Release. The sea lions summon a bird named Becky and then help Marlin and Nemo rescue Dory.

   Meanwhile in Quarantine, Dory is in a Tank and meets Hank, (Ed O'Neill) the cranky octopus who wishes to go back to the ocean instead to an aquarium in Cleveland. They go off on an adventure and meet a whale shark named Destiny (Kaitlin Olson) and a Beluga Whale named Bailey (Ty Burell).

Soon Dory throughout the course of her adventure gets many flash blacks from her childhood and finds out she is from the Open Ocean exhibit. After arriving there, she did not find her parents. Some crabs revealed that all the Blue Tangs are in quarantine ready to be shipped to Cleveland. Dory, Marlin, and Nemo meet up again and arrive at Quarantine. They find the Blue Tang fish tank and they reveal once again that her parents are not there. Hank gets Dory out of the tank and Hank gets caught, Dory is released into the ocean when the cup breaks and ends up back in the Kelp forest.

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  In the last act, it gets crazy. I prefer not to spoil it. Overall the story is amazing! Great Cast, and Great setting! Each character has their own disability like Bailey, he cannot use his sonar, Destiny is near sighted, and Hank only has seven tentacles. Throughout the film they learn to live with their abilities and help Dory find her family. The final act is a bit far fetched and crazy! Like Toys talking and emotions having emotions crazy, but if you do not have an issue with fish talking, an octopus drinking coffee and other crazy Pixar antics, then the last act is crazy and well written.

Finding Dory is an emotional and fun journey that is filled with laughs, joy, and adventure.

Finding Dory deserves 5 out of 5 stars and is one of the top three Pixar films