Nothing New About It

Rating: 5/10 (1 August 2016)

With all the awful adult films available this summer, we went to this. Having seen "Nemo" several years ago, I expected something new and exciting. I'm a big Ellen DeGeneres fan, but the lame script and lack of punch made her offerings of little import. Once again, we have the fish, defying all the laws of nature. Dory is looking for her parents. If she were human, she would need constant supervision because her memory situation. She is supposedly capable of livings her life, but has no coping skills. I know this is an animated feature, but the very idea of finding her parents is so far-fetched, even to stretch the limits of this medium. Things are so contrived, including the whole business of quarantine and shipping fish to Cleveland and that octopus and so on, that I lost interest. Unlike the original movie, there was almost nothing funny here. Apparently Dory got older and bigger but Nemo is still a child and still the same size he was before. Has anyone asked about this? Visually, some of the movie was striking, but, when it was over, I didn't feel any emotion. There are so many superior animated features out there and Pixar didn't follow through on this one.