good and bad at same time

Rating: 5/10 (26 November 2009)

The movie is both good and horrible at same time.
The Good: It has a lot of absolutely hilarious moments and scenes. Many of them of those involve "Dory" character, which also has excellent voice acting. There are a lot of places where you will laugh (well, unless you have absolutely no sense of humor).
The Bad: The parts that aren't funny are extremely weak. Plot and characters involve a lot of clichÃ©s, characters have nearly no personality (perhaps with exception of "Dory" fish), they don't really develop much. All scenes that are supposed to bring any emotional impact(or to be tragic) simply doesn't work and feel unnatural, often they feel "out of place". I had to skip certain moments because they were extremely boring to me and I felt like I saw something similar before.
Summary: There is only one truly memorable and interesting character in this movie: the "Dory" fish. "Dory" certainly looks better than both "protagonists" (father and son), mostly because of excellent voice acting. Besides "Dory" it is hard to miss certain little girl (because of music theme and associated funny scene) that appears on screen for a short time. There are many funny moments, but outside of them movie offer very little. Overall it is much weaker than "Up"/"Wall-E" (which were released several years later) and may be on par with Ratatoille. Graphically movie isn't bad, but isn't impressive either, and I could swear I saw texture filtration artifacts or poor bump-mapping work in two places, although I'm not completely sure about it. Animation is perfect as always, but it doesn't save you from weak parts in the story.
So if you want few laughs and don't mind mediocre story - this is for you. If you want "deep" story, you can skip this movie.