Finding Dory

Director: Andrew Stanton

Voice Cast: Ellen Degeneres, Albert Brooke, Hayden Rolence, Ed O’Neill, Kailin Olson, Ty Burrell, Diane Keaton, Eugene Levy

After a long 13 years, the sequel to one of the biggest animation movies of all time, Finding Nemo is here.

In the intermediate 13 years, Pixar didn’t let our tears dry with its string of excellent movies (Up, Inside Out, Toy Story 3, Brave , etc). Unlike most Pixar movies, the film does not brim with sob-worthy moments. Dory, perfectly voiced by Ellen, is still her same dorky self, who even with her forgetfulness and incessant questions never gets irritating. At a few moments, the turn of events does get too convenient for the story to be believable. But hey, there is no way for three fish to swim across an entire ocean without getting eaten alive or befriending a whale or coming across truck-driving octopuses.

The new characters, including Dory’s whale friend from her childhood, a beluga whale who hasn’t discovered his true powers yet, two sea lions with thick Aussie accents and a Becky with the weird hair promise more than a few bouts of hearty laughter. Pixar doesn’t introduce any negative characters in this one. A charming movie on emotions and friendship, these fish do hurt each other with mean words but no one is actually here to cause harm.

Ed O’Neill, who voices Hank, the introverted octopus (more suitably, a septopus), is the only slightly grey character in the film.

Sequels tend to always go bigger than the first part and Finding Dory follows suits too. The swimming across the ocean part is done in mere five minutes and the actual adventure begins and ends in a marine life institute, a stark, and bigger, contrast to the dentist’s office from the first part.

Finding Dory is a good and safe bet for your weekend movie cravings. It lets you interpret the story the way you want to, and that very seldom happens in cinema.