Finding Dory

Rating: 5/10 (2 July 2020)

Andrew Stanton, John Lasseter, Bob Peterson, Jeremy Lasky & Thomas Newton came back together after thirteen years to make Finding Nemo's "sequel", Finding Dory. The first set was great! Stanton did all the right things to drag us in, and want more. As for the rest of the story, it was slower paced because there was much more going on this time around. On the downside, I felt as if Stanton got a little lazy, and borrowed some content from the first film, so a few scenes just felt unbalanced. The major downfall I had with this movie, I can't have Dory as my main protagonist!!! She serves much better as a side character; her character is a close comparison to Mater, just not as annoying. It did the same thing Cars 2 did, and they both flopped.
I can truly appreciate the effort the team put in, into creating new and original characters, but some of them were hit and miss. The screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson & new comer Victoria Strouse, didn't have as much charisma throughout, as the first one did, having pretty bad jokes throughout, and just lacked heart that the first movie spewed of.
The cinematography by Jeremy Lasky & Ian Megibben was even better than the first one. The lights and darks, the animations, the texture in everything to the fish, to the water, to the sunlight was just spectacular.
I usually stay away from mentioning the endings, unless they really mean something, but this ending made this movie plummet real fast. It was just too over the top, and tried to flesh out too much, because they realize they overstuffed the narrative to begin with.
Overall, this movie may not have been as fresh as the first, and took FOREVER to release, but it wasn't as bad as some of the other trash we got a few years ago.