Finding Dory (2016)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2016
	Director: Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo, Wall-E, John Carter), Angus MacLane
	Actors (voices): Ellen DeGeneres (EdTV), Albert Brooks, Ed O'Neill (Married with Children and Modern Family TV-series)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Animation
	Conditions of visioning: 14.12.2016, in-flight entertainment system 10" screen
Synopsis: Dori, the fish with short-term memory problem who had helped the clown-fish Marlin finding his son Nemo, has flashbacks about her lost parents and sets on a new adventure to find them.
Review: Unlike for example Toy Story 2 which was bringing more depth to the known story of Toy Story, I found this sequel to Finding Nemo not to bring much to the underwater universe created by the Pixar studios in 2003. It is nice to reunite with our beloved characters, there is enough action to keep you awake and the movie is probably a hit with the kids, but I found it quite flat overall. A story with ups and downs, punctuated by stunts and gags and with as emotional background the lost parents, but missing the mark by a little. My favorite character in the movie, and what saves it for me, is Hank the Heptapus (an Octopus with only seven limbs), escape-artist loner and master of disguise thanks to his camouflage skin. I found that all the scenes he is in immediately got more peps and were more funny and interesting. Luckily we see him a lot. By contrast Marlin and Nemo are pretty much invisible. Finding Dory sadly follows the downwards trend in quality and upwards in uniformization that started when the studio was bought by Disney.
Rating: 5 /10