Review of Finding Dory (2016) by Oberrated — 18 Jun 2016

The story of Dory begins with a young Dory (Ellen DeGeneres) as she is working on her short-term memory problem with the help of her parents Charlie and Jenny (Eugene Levy and Diane Keaton). After re-iterating more on how quickly her memory is lost than audiences may remember from 'Finding Nemo', Dory goes through a series of attempts to remember important things throughout her everyday life. As time goes on, Dory finds herself incidentally split from her parents and begins a multi-year search to reunite with them. This search results in the events of 'Finding Nemo' then fast-forwards a year passed those events to the "present day" of 'Finding Dory'. Dory then remembers her original goal of wanting to find her parents and restarts her search, along with the help of Marlin and Nemo (Albert Brooks and Hayden Rolence). The search results in seeing old and new faces and experiencing adventures unlike ever before for the sake of finding Dory's parents.

'Finding Dory' hit home and satisfied the inner 11 year old in me that watched 'Finding Nemo'. Even with a recent watch of 'Finding Nemo', I was still incredibly invested in the original and just as much so in the new one. I also caught myself laughing and smiling like a child at parts right along with the kiddie crowd surrounding me (which was a large majority... I have no regrets). 'Finding Dory' was entertaining for a kids movie. Had enough humor to satisfy young and old alike. The voice actors and actresses were great. Of course, I had a slight issue with some majorly unrealistic aspects of the movie near the end but beggars can not be choosers. Regardless, at the end of the day, 'Finding Dory' is already a box office hit with it only being Friday and is destined for record-breaking success.