Its also at this point I have to ask how this world works anyway.
The brainless bird Becky flies in outta nowhere to save Dory, a mop bucket saves Dory, a fish tank, somehow Hank manages to find a convenient bottle of water just big enough to fit Dory inside when they steal a truck (yes steal a truck). As said old Hank pops up outta nowhere on a few occasions to save Dory and co. There are so many moments of dues ex machina or just outrightly convenient moments where something or some creature saves the day its ridiculous. Either that or they constantly get saved in the nick of time by Hank the octopus who also turns up at the most convenient times. This can range from a water fountain, a cup of liquid, a rock pool, a fish tank, a mop bucket etc.Its so farcical, there is no tension or risk because you know whatever happens next there will be an object of water to save the day.
So this means the main protagonists are constantly being saved by conveniently placed objects of water of varying sizes. Being a flick about fish you gotta have plenty of water around you see, you can't really do without water and objects filled with water. Everything that happens in this movie, every little adventure, every little sub plot moment, its all full of lame gags and cheap movie thrills. K let me just come out and say this, this movie is cheap, its littered with so many cliches, predictable set ups and is chock full with moments of bullshit dues ex machina. I found myself wanting to see more of Hank and WAY less of Dory. But that aside this character is easily the most engaging, the most amusing and the most relatable (even he gets pissed off with Dory). Hank the octopus is almost like having Al Bundy in a modern kids flick, almost, its close enough for me. The other thing is the fact he's voice by O'Neill who is a brilliantly funny bloke that I've been a huge fan of ever since his early 'Married with Children' days. He's been rendered, designed and animated beautifully and showcases a brilliant camouflage trait that gets him into and out of sticky situations. For starters this is one of those characters that just looks amazing with incredible detail. The one standout has to be Hank the octopus voiced by Ed O'Neill. 'Hi I'm Dory, have you seen my parents?', oh my God shut the hell up!!Īll the other characters are your basic predictable types that we've seen a million times over in so many animated movies. Yes the character of Dory is not funny, there I said it.
Here she's the main character and you just can't escape her dimwitted, unfunny memory based slapstick shtick. In the first movie its kinda acceptable because she wasn't the main character, she was the (apparent) comic relief. Ellen DeGeneres does a fine job with Dory's voice, I'm not really having a go at her, but the entire character is just God damn annoying. The first issue for me with this movie is the main character of Dory, she's hella annoying. So yes in short its literally the same thing all over again. As you can imagine the trio meet up with numerous other fishy friends and others not so fishy whilst at the same time there is plenty of danger and more fish abducting by humans. Nemo and his dad Marlin agree to help Dory on her quest and set out towards their destination of California (where Dory's last flashback indicated her parents might be). Naturally this proves challenging for Dory with her memory problem. As an adult fish Dory keeps having these flashbacks about her parents so she decides to try and find them. We also see how Dory gets involved with the original movies hunt for Nemo. Firstly we get a flashback to show us Dory's young fish life with her parents before she finds herself getting lost (seems to happen a lot to these fish). This time around the story is just as simple and frankly just as unoriginal. So naturally there was going to be sequel, it was inevitable. But with glossy eye-popping visuals and great characters it struck a cord with families. The heartwarming tale of clownfish in search of his young son (also a clownfish) who has been captured by divers, was admittedly a simple and not particularly original one. So back in 2003 Pixar released the movie 'Finding Nemo' and it was a critical hit.
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