This year isn't going so well for animated movies

Rating: 6/10 (23 June 2016)

Well, last year's movies weren't so good, this year's movies have improved a bit but they still aren't anything great. Zootopia and Finding Dory both have pretty long runtime (running for about an hour and 45 minutes) which is too long for a kid-friendly comedy. And they didn't have that much drama either.
The story starts off with a young Dory (at about 2 or 3) and she announces that she's suffering from short-term membory loss. Then, it shows her playing with her parents, before out of curiosity, she looks at a shell or something and then gets whisks away (in the same vein as Nemo in he first film). Since then, Dory has been asking other fishes and have been looking around for her parents.
Then, she gets lost and Nemo and Marlin have to consistently reunite with her as Dory tries to remember what has happened in her early years.
This is the unnecessary, pointless Pixar sequel of Finding Nemo. Kids may enjoy this but don't expect much new out of this, it's pretty much the same plot of trying to find your family relative, kind of like The Good Dinosaur but done in a slightly better and more heart-warming way.
I guess it's nice to see Dory, my childhood favorite character come back but even Marlin seems to have gotten more overprotective and Dory has gotten a bit more forgetful than the first one (although, that doesn't seem to be much of a problem since the film is about Dory recovering her memories)... And the voice acting isn't the best, while newcomer Sloane Murray does alright as the voice of Young Dory, Hayden Rolance tries to sound like the original voice of Nemo but ends up coming off as high-pitched.
The animation was also okay but the character design was beautiful.
I would put this on the same league as Monsters University. It's like a mediocre Dreamworks film. I don't understand the appeal this and Inside Out has already, even though it did have some touching and heartfelt scenes, but the only thing it's missing is some originality.