A more mellow and slow-paced follow-up, which certainly isn't a bad thing

Rating: 8/10 (15 June 2016)

Finding Dory is the long awaited sequel to the Disney Pixar classic Finding Nemo. While Pixar aren't well known for the quality of their sequels and prequels (with the exception of the Toy Story films), this one was actually very good. It's a more mellow and slow-paced follow-up, which certainly isn't a bad thing.
Six months after the events of Finding Nemo, Dory (voiced by Ellen DeGeneres) suddenly remembers something important about her childhood and sets off to her original home, located in Morro Bay, California. Due to Dory's frequent short-term memory loss, she has great difficulty trying to piece together the fractured remnants of her memories and often forgets things at the most important of times. Marlin (voiced by Albert Brooks), with his son Nemo, follow after Dory to help her along with her journey to discover what it is she is really looking for.
Beautiful to look at and quite touching at times, Finding Dory is a worthy successor to the excellent original film. Being more slow-paced than its predecessor, this allowed for more poignant and atmospheric moments to really take effect. The voice acting was great as well, particularly from Ellen DeGeneres as Dory. I also enjoyed many of the new characters introduced, my personal favourite was Hank, a cynical Octopus voiced by Ed O'Neill. If you enjoyed the original, then I recommend seeing this one.
I rate it 8/10. Special mention also goes to the cute animated short at the beginning titled "Piper", which is about a baby Sandpiper learning how to feed itself.