Review of Finding Dory (2016) by Mepitts — 18 Jun 2016
Loved "Finding Nemo" and the Dory character as portrayed by Ellen DeGeneres, and the animation and the "Piper" short before this movie are all wonderful, but found the movie long, repetitive, a little irritating and disappointing: The Dory character was good as a side-kick in the original story, but putting that character in a starring role without really strong writing to support her was a mistake.
OK--we get it. She has short-term memory issues. But we got it in Finding Nemo and we got it in the first 10 minutes of Finding Dory. The writing was not strong enough or clever enough to sustain a movie this long.
And, short-term memory issues aside, the message is affirming to Dory but disconcerting as a "life lesson": as long as you're lucky, being headstrong and impulsive will save the day! Pixar no doubt has other great movies in the pipeline, but for now, Finding Dory is a faint shadow of great Pixar movies like The Incredibles, Ratatouille, the Toy Story trilogy and Finding Nemo.
Not recommended.
This review of Finding Dory (2016) was written by Mepitts on 18 Jun 2016.
Finding Dory has generally received very positive reviews.
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