A great sequel

Rating: 8/10 (3 August 2016)

I love finding nemo, it's one of my.favourite animated film's of all time. But I wasn't too excited for finding dory and thought it was a little unnecessary but I am happy to say that this is a great film. The premise of this film sees dory remember she has a family and goes on a mission with Marlon and nemo to find her parents. Ellen DeGeneres plays dory and is fantastic in this film. Her character is incredibly lovable and you really want to see her succeed in finding her parents. But she also has allot of heart and emotion as you see her deal with her short term memory loss. Marlon and nemo are back in this film and they add a really nice dynamic, Marlon and dory have a great relationship that is more developed from the first film. I liked all the new characters, the octopus hank and dory's relationship and chemistry is really good and fun to watch throughout the film. All the supporting characters are great especially a pair of sea lions played by idris Elba and Dominic west who just had me laughing the entire time. The story has similar beats to finding nemo but It develops well. You see a great journey of character development with dory and a very different one then the first film. You also see a different location which allows different types of characters to be fun additions to the story. There are good flashbacks as well that add further depth to this film. The script has great drama in it that makes you truly makes you care about dory and her situation. The humour is really funny at times in this film its just not everything hits and there are some times where the humour isn't that funny. The style of this film is great just like finding nemo it provides a beautiful ocean littered with fun characters. However, this film does get a bit too ridiculous in some of its stylistic decisions that took me out of the movie. Overall I really enjoyed this film and if you like finding nemo you should like this movie.