Review of Finding Dory (2016) by Nicklikesmovies — 16 Jun 2016

Finding Dory is a wonderfully heartwarming, visually breathtaking, incredible film. It isn't as perfect as the first but it didn't need to be. It did what a good sequel's job is to do: it furthered along a story in a structurally familiar but also wildly original and different way. The film exceeds mostly due to it's overwhelmingly likable and hilarious characters. Every character, new and old, have their shining moments. Not just one moment. Multiple moments. From Dory to Nemo to Hank to Destiny to Becky to Gerald, they all are extremely memorable and help further the plot in their own, unique ways. And are truly the reason the film works so beautifully well.

Finding Dory packs so much emotion in it's heartbreaking/heartwarming flashback scenes that are definitely the highlights of the film. I cried within the first five minutes and that's what I've come to expect with Pixar films. The film within the Pixar universe isn't one of the very best, just due to lack of originality. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing in this case. If this was the first in the series it would be groundbreaking, like the first Finding Nemo is.

I loved Finding Dory with every inch of my body. It does everything it needed to do and actually exceeding my expectations more than I ever could have imagined. It even features positive messages of teaching children with disabilities and animal captivity. Finding Dory is a wonderful, emmersive, lovable film that I don't see anyone disliking.