Complicated and adventurous, however not as good as Finding Nemo

Rating: 7/10 (2 July 2016)

***There are some spoiler territories in this review and I will give out a warning. Otherwise enjoy the review***
There are a lot of mixed reviews about Finding Dory. I just saw the movie from the theaters and I too have mixed feelings about the movie. I do have to say, as a kid's movie, and me having a significant age difference from the target audience, the movie was quite entertaining that's for sure. There were some parts where I felt the movie could've done better and some parts that I thought the movie did well.
Finding Dory is where Dory remembers a memory of her parents and decides to go out and find them along with Marlin and Nemo. She accidentally ends up at a Marine Life Institute instead and little by little she realizes her parents was at the institute.
To start off, the acting in this movie was pretty good. Albert Brooks as Marlin was quite good but nothing too flashy, while Hayden Rolence as Nemo delivers the role quite well. The acting was believable between the two and nothing of them got me out of the movie. Ellen DeGeneres as Dory was good. She delivered a vast image of emotions out the movie and her voice acting was believable. The supporting characters such as Ed O'Neil as Hank, Kaitlin Olsen as Destiny, and Ty Burrell as Bailey really helped constructing the movie. None of the supporting characters felt forced and the dialogue between Ty Burrell and Kaitlin Olsen was hilarious. The comedy of this movie however was more focused on the dialogue rather than visuals. Not that I have a problem with this, its just that younger audience members might not understand the comedy of this movie as much as the older audience members do. The movie really focuses on Dory's short term memory loss this time and sometimes uses this as an excuse for plot convenience. At times if felt too repetitive and really forced, and Dory's flashbacks really seemed more as a exposition story teller more than a actual visual relationship.
SPOILER WARNING!
Another problem I had with this movie was the reveal of Dory's parents, Dory finds her parents right outside the walls of the institution, which is just plain bulls*it because at at the first quarter of the movie, it was clearly shown that Dory, Marlin and Nemo was outside the walls of the institution themselves, and the fact that neither of them bumped into each other is just for the remainder of 1:15. And sure, hardcore movie fans can say that Jenny and Charlie could just be looking for shells and s*it but Dory was clearly yelling "HELLO" like a couple of times, which Dory's parents should've heard her screaming and shouting "HELLO." I also felt that the ending could've been more dramatic and heartfelt if Dory just imagined her parents being there, sort of like ghosts for that matter. I think if the movie actually do that then it can really show the audience the passion and love that Dory holds so dearly onto about her parents.
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The message of this movie really was undemanding and wasn't clearly shown. Before I watched the movie, I felt that the movie goers were trying to show the audience the truth and the reality of aquariums and marine life institutions and how horrible it is from the fish's perspective but that really wasn't the case in the actual film, and if it was then it wasn't shown clearly. If the movie had gone to that approach more attentively than I might have more positive feelings about the film.
FINAL VERDICT: 7.8/10 The movie was fun to watch but there some ups and downs here and there. Check it out for yourself if you haven't already. I recommend this movie to all audiences.