Finding Dory (2016)

Directed by

Angus MacLane, Andrew Stanton

Genre

comedy film, adventure film, comedy drama, family film, flashback film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 37m

Rated

PG

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 12,717 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Dory, a blue tang fish with short-term memory loss, sets out across the ocean to find her long-lost parents. Along the way she gets help from old friends and meets new ones as she pieces together clues from her past.

adventurousheartwarminghopefullightheartedplayfulemotionalbittersweetfast-paced

What happens

Finding Dory is a 2016 American animated adventure comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. It was directed by Andrew Stanton, and written by Stanton and Victoria Strouse. The film is both a sequel and spin-off following the events of Finding Nemo (2003). Ellen DeGeneres and Albert Brooks reprise their roles from the first film, with Ed O'Neill, Kaitlin Olson, Hayden Rolence (replacing Alexander Gould), Ty Burrell, Diane Keaton and Eugene Levy joining the cast. The film focuses on the amnesiac fish Dory (DeGeneres), who journeys to be reunited with her parents (Keaton and Levy). Disney planned to make a sequel to Finding Nemo since 2005, tasking its new studio Circle Seven Animation after disagreements with Pixar. Though it never went into production, a script was uploaded to the official Raindance Film Festival website that includes elements of the unmade script. Disney's acquisition of Pixar in early 2006 led to the cancellation of Circle Seven's version of the film. A Pixar-made sequel was announced in April 2013 as the schedule for a November 2015 release. The fictional Marine Life Institute depicted extensively in the film is based on the production team's research trips to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, the Marine Mammal Center and the Vancouver Aquarium. Thomas Newman returned to compose the score. Finding Dory premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles on June 8, 2016, and was released in theaters in the United States on June 17. It received widespread praise from critics, like its predecessor, for its animation, emotional weight, voice acting and humor. The film earned $1.029 billion worldwide, finishing its theatrical run as the third-highest-grossing film of 2016 and the fourth-highest-grossing animated film at the time. It set numerous box office records, including the biggest opening for an animated film in Canada and the United States and the highest-grossing animated film in Canada and the United States. The film received a win at the 2017 Kids' Choice Awards for Favorite Animated Movie, among various other awards at various shows. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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