Finding Dory

Name: Finding Dory
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Animation, Family
Released: June 17, 2016
Duration: 97 min
Rating: 77
Cast: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres

2016

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Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | Release Date: June 17, 2016 | PG

Starring: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres

Summary: Finding Dory reunites the friendly-but-forgetful blue tang fish Dory, with her friends Nemo and Marlin on a search for answers about her past. What can she remember? Who are her parents? And where did she learn to speak Whale?

Director: Andrew Stanton and Angus MacLane

Genre(s): Adventure, Comedy, Animation, Family

Rating: PG

Runtime: 97 min

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Kate Taylor

Jun 16, 2016

DeGeneres goes much further, though, maintaining a delicate balance between Dory’s optimistic personality and the hovering anxieties created by her imperfect memory. Read full review

Lou Lumenick

Jun 16, 2016

If there has ever been a better voice performance in an animated film than Ellen DeGeneres’ in Pixar’s wonderful sequel Finding Dory, I sure can’t think of it. Her tour de force even surpasses Robin Williams in “Aladdin.” Read full review

Drew McWeeny

Jun 16, 2016

Say what you will, but Pixar understands innately that making their audience feel something deeply is the greatest magic trick in movies, and all of their work as technicians and artists are always focused on making that happen. Finding Dory may be familiar magic, but there’s magic in it all the same. Read full review

Chris Nashawaty

Jun 10, 2016

It’s not Toy Story or Inside Out or even Nemo. What it is is a perfectly enjoyable family film that’s comforting, familiar, and a bit slight, like one of those serviceable Lion King spin-offs that Disney used to ship straight to DVD back in the ‘90s. Read full review

Lawrence Toppman

Jun 23, 2016

Finding Dory can be described in exactly the same way as its title character: good-natured, funny, optimistic, darting from place to place, ranging from anxious to frenzied in tone, and unable to sustain an idea for more than a few moments. Read full review

The Playlist Jamie Maleszka

Jun 15, 2016

The animated story finds true buoyancy in its social value rather than its creative frontiers. Has the movie reinvented the animation game or Pixar’s standing within it? Far from it, but Finding Dory is a well-told promise that individuality and self acceptance always win. Read full review

Todd McCarthy

Jun 10, 2016

While rambunctious and passably humorous, this offspring isn't nearly as imaginative and nimble-minded as the forerunner that spawned it. Read full review

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SeanVincent

Jun 17, 2016

This sequel might not be as great as the original but that doesn't mean the film is bad but instead its another Pixar movie that deserve the praise.Finding Dory is a amusing,touching,moving and a intriguing film that delivers an amazing animation that Pixar is known for and a significantThis sequel might not be as great as the original but that doesn't mean the film is bad but instead its another Pixar movie that deserve the praise.Finding Dory is a amusing,touching,moving and a intriguing film that delivers an amazing animation that Pixar is known for and a significant continuation of it's predecessor.The voice works here are appreciable and the characters are just lovable and entertaining.This sequel will feel identical from it's predecessor but some of it are new additions that were worthy enough to make this film great and a touching moments that made people weep.

Finding Dory is another example that there is more ideas in a franchise if the people making it has effort and passion to do it.Finding Dory might have some identical story and a some emotional scenes that didn't intrigue audiences but overall the film is near to the "one of the best animated films" very very very,very far from the worst .… Expand

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JACOBJORDANBA

Jun 22, 2021

Finding Dory is my favorite movie of all time and Incredibles 2 I love that finding Dory tells the story about the Dory trying to find her family this movie has a good message about how far you'll go to find the people that you love finding Dory has a really good message teaching kids toFinding Dory is my favorite movie of all time and Incredibles 2 I love that finding Dory tells the story about the Dory trying to find her family this movie has a good message about how far you'll go to find the people that you love finding Dory has a really good message teaching kids to always stay with their parents and also how far you go I mean United with your family again or the people you love the most Disney's really giving us a really powerful message… Expand

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AfNino

Aug 24, 2016

Though this film doesn't dazzle like Finding Nemo did (which in my opinion is the best Pixar film), it's still a great film filled with emotion and alot more humor than the 1st film. I didn't think it would hit the feels like Nemo did, especially when the plot is very similar, but it did andThough this film doesn't dazzle like Finding Nemo did (which in my opinion is the best Pixar film), it's still a great film filled with emotion and alot more humor than the 1st film. I didn't think it would hit the feels like Nemo did, especially when the plot is very similar, but it did and I would say it hit deeper than the 1st film did. Dory's sense of hopelessness at times with their memory loss did make me tear up. In the 1st film her memory loss made Dory like the comic relief of the film, here we actually get to see all the trouble and emotions of living with it. The animation of the film is top tier aswell. Thomas Newman's score hits a perfect 10 also. For those who were huge fans of Finding Nemo as a kid, this is a certain must-watch. A satisfying sequel to the movie which was a huge part of my childhood.… Expand

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C-Dawg86

Jul 20, 2016

This was the first movie we took my son to in the theater! Doesn't effect the review at all, just a fun fact. A solid B Pixar movie. Not as good as the original, Toy Storys, or Inside Out, but a good movie. It really pushes escapism to the extreme, which hurts the film because you don't feelThis was the first movie we took my son to in the theater! Doesn't effect the review at all, just a fun fact. A solid B Pixar movie. Not as good as the original, Toy Storys, or Inside Out, but a good movie. It really pushes escapism to the extreme, which hurts the film because you don't feel any risk of them not escaping the situation.… Expand

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Wiholke

Jan 20, 2021

Finding Dory is the sequel to Finding Nemo and I was super worried going into this movie back in 2016. I was pleasantly surprised that the movie was good, but it's definitely no "Finding Nemo". Similar to Cars 2 and Monsters University, PIXAR takes the secondary character Dory and givesFinding Dory is the sequel to Finding Nemo and I was super worried going into this movie back in 2016. I was pleasantly surprised that the movie was good, but it's definitely no "Finding Nemo". Similar to Cars 2 and Monsters University, PIXAR takes the secondary character Dory and gives her the spotlight. In Finding Nemo, I already thought Dory was a great character, and in this one, she proves herself to be even more likable, which is big praise. The other characters, minus Hank the septopus, are a bit bland and I don't have much good or bad to say about them. The story works really well for me, and the animation once again is stunning. I am very impressed at how realistic the water and ocean look and the way they can make characters move naturally. My biggest issues with the film are the humor and the ending. The humor in this film is not even close to the level of Finding Nemo which happened to be an extremely funny film as well as touching. This movie has some of that but the emotional levels are not as high, not really even close. And the ending is just insane. It is just pure lunacy, kind of hilarious, but not in a great way. It's this climax that makes me not want to rewatch the film in the first place but I did anyway because I was curious to see how I feel about it now. Then the movie ends about five minutes after this crazy event takes place which was very abrupt and frankly sloppy for PIXAR. Luckily this is overall a surprise and a mostly fun movie that I'm glad wasn't awful at all. Finding Dory is a good PIXAR film, but at this point in time, PIXAR was in another slump again.… Expand

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PopcornandaCoke

Jun 18, 2016

Another review said it best and I will confirm those comments. This movie is decent and kids will enjoy it, but it is a recycle of the original and has the feel and story-quality of a sequel better released directly to DVD. Finding Dory is full of color and cuteness but overwhelmed withAnother review said it best and I will confirm those comments. This movie is decent and kids will enjoy it, but it is a recycle of the original and has the feel and story-quality of a sequel better released directly to DVD. Finding Dory is full of color and cuteness but overwhelmed with far-fetched scenarios that fell hollow and contrived to me. I was not terribly impressed and remember thinking after seeing Finding Nemo that it was a movie better left without a sequel. Disney might have done better with a sequel with a little more of a statement about the condition of our oceans and a thicker plot.… Expand

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All_ButTrU4

Jul 5, 2022

This is what happens when you disturb the peacefully laid to rest stories for commercial gain. This movie is over an hours worth of nothing, Dorys search for self and family isn't worth telling or watching.

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