Finding Dory (Film)

Pixar's 17th feature film following the short term memory losing Blue Tang as she tries to find her parents.

## Description

Forgetful blue tang Dory is living happily in the reef with Marlin and Nemo. When Dory suddenly remembers that she has a family out there who may be looking for her, the trio takes off on a life-changing adventure across the ocean to California’s prestigious *Marine Life Institute*, a rehabilitation center and aquarium. In an effort to find her mom and dad, Dory enlists the help of three of the MLI’s most intriguing residents: Hank, a cantankerous “septopus" who frequently gives employees the slip; Bailey, a beluga whale who is convinced his biological sonar skills are on the fritz; and Destiny, a nearsighted whale shark. Deftly navigating the complex inner workings of the MLI, Dory and her friends discover the magic within their flaws, friendships and family.

## PLOT

Dory, the regal blue tang, gets separated from her parents, Jenny and Charlie, as a child. As she grows up, Dory attempts to search for them, but gradually forgets them due to her short-term memory loss. Later, she joins Marlin the clownfish, looking for Nemo.

One year after meeting Marlin and Nemo, Dory is living with them in their reef. One day, Dory has a flashback and remembers her parents. She decides to look for them, but her memory problem is an obstacle. She suddenly remembers that they lived at the "Jewel of Morro Bay, California" across the ocean when Nemo mentions the name.

Marlin and Nemo accompany Dory on her journey. With the help of Crush, their sea turtle friend, they ride the California Current to California. Upon arrival, they explore a shipwreck full of lost cargo, where Dory accidentally awakens a giant Humboldt squid, who pursues them and almost devours Nemo. They manage to trap the squid in a large shipping container, and Marlin berates Dory for endangering them. Her feelings hurt, Dory travels to the surface to seek help where she is captured by staff members from the trio's nearby destination, the Marine Life Institute.

Dory is placed in quarantine and tagged. There she meets a grouchy seven-legged octopus named Hank. Dory's tag marks her for transfer to an aquarium in Cleveland, Ohio. Hank, who fears being released back into the ocean, agrees to help Dory find her parents in exchange for her tag. In one exhibit, Dory encounters her childhood friend Destiny, a nearsighted whale shark, who used to communicate with Dory through pipes, and Bailey, a beluga whale, who mistakenly believes he has lost his ability to echolocate. Dory subsequently has flashbacks of life with her parents and struggles to recall details. She finally remembers how she was separated from her parents: she overheard her mother crying one night, left to retrieve a shell to cheer her up, and was pulled away by an undertow current out into the ocean.

Marlin and Nemo attempt to rescue Dory. With the help of two lazy California sea lions named Fluke and Rudder and a common loon named Becky, they manage to get into the institute and find her in the pipe system. Other blue tangs tell them that Dory's parents escaped from the institute a long time ago to search for her and never came back, leaving Dory to believe that they have died. Hank retrieves Dory from the tank, accidentally leaving Marlin and Nemo behind. He is then apprehended by one of the employees and unintentionally drops Dory into the drain, flushing her out to the ocean. While wandering aimlessly, she comes across a trail of shells; remembering that when she was young, her parents had set out a similar trail to help her find her way back home, she follows it. At the end of the trail, Dory finds an empty brain coral with multiple shell trails leading to it. As she turns to leave, her parents arrive. They tell her they spent years laying down the trails for her to follow in the hopes that she would eventually find them.

Marlin, Nemo, and Hank end up in the truck taking various aquatic creatures to Cleveland. Destiny and Bailey escape from their exhibit to help Dory rescue them. Once onboard the truck, Dory persuades Hank to return to the sea with her, and together, they hijack the truck and drive it over busy highways, creating havoc, before crashing it into the sea, freeing all the fish. Dory, along with her parents and new friends, returns to the reef with Marlin and Nemo. Hank begins to adapt a happy lifestyle in the ocean and also becoming a teacher for Nemo's school.

The credits scene is a mini-prequel featuring clips of Hank set before the events of the film's main plot.

In a post-credits scene, the Tank Gang (from *Finding Nemo*), still trapped inside their (now covered in algae) plastic bags, reach California one year after floating across the Pacific Ocean, where they are picked up by staff members from the Marine Life Institute.

## Cast

* Ellen DeGeneres as Dory
	+ Sloane Murray as baby Dory
	+ Lucia Geddes as young Dory
* Albert Brooks as Marlin
* Ed O'Neill as Hank
* Kaitlin Olson as Destiny
* Hayden Rolence as Nemo (Rolence replaces Alexander Gould from the first film)
* Ty Burrell as Bailey
* Diane Keaton as Jenny
* Eugene Levy as Charlie
* Idris Elba as Fluke
* Dominic West as Rudder
* Bob Peterson as Mr. Ray
* Alan Tudyk as Crush
* Simon Helberg as Clam
* Bennett Dammann as Squirt
* Bill Hader as Stan
* Kate McKinnon as Stan's wife
* Torbin Xan Bullock as Gerald and Becky
* Sigourney Weaver as herself
* Willem Dafoe as Gill
* Vicki Lewis as Deb
* Brad Garrett as Bloat
* Allison Janney as Peach
* Austin Pendleton as Gurgle
* Stephen Root as Bubbles
* Kirk Thornton as Jacques
* John Ratzenberger as Bill
* Angus MacLane as "Charlie Back and Forth"
* Alexander Gould as Passenger Carl and Tommy
* Katherine Ringgold as a chickenfish
* Aaron Fors, Bob Peterson and Andrew Stanton as the Seagulls

### Additional voices

* Aaron Fros
* Kevin Michael Richardson
* Scott Menville
* Khary Payton
* Keith Ferguson
* David Cowgill
* Jerome Ranft
* Terrell Ransom Jr.
* Claire Ryann Crosby
* Molly Jackson
* Carlos Alazraqui
* Cathy Cavadini
* Cam Clarke
* Eric Bauza
* John DiMaggio
* Carter Hastings
* Daniel Mora
* Willow Geer
* Cree Summer
* Ashly Burch
* Phil LaMarr
* Grant George
* Tara Strong
* Colleen O'Shaughnessey
* Judi M. Durand
* Regina Taufend
* Vernonika Bonnell
* Jeremy Maxwell
* Doug Burch
* Carlyle King
* Dashell Zamm
* Steve Blum
* Kari Wahlgren
* Fred Tatasciore
* Dara Iruka
* Gabriel C. Brown
* Nancy Truman
* Emma Shannon

## Possible Sequel

Director Andrew Stanton commented in June 2016 about the possibility of a third Finding Nemo film, stating:

"I really do feel like that this was the missing piece, emotionally, for the first movie. Now, I’ve stopped saying never for anything because there are a lot of new characters that get introduced and we’ve broadened the universe for this movie. And again, I’m very used to seeing that world continue to open up from the Toy Story movies, so I’ve learned to just say, to my knowledge, I think everything that was born of the first movie is wrapped up. But we’ll see. With any of the other sequels, we strive to try and make it seem like it was inevitable, like it was meant to be, that all these extended stories and journeys with these characters were part of the whole canon. And that's really hard, but it's so satisfying for me when I’m experiencing that, whether it's a great second season of a TV show or another book in a series. It's a small club when it's done successfully. Regardless of how much people may vocalize that they don’t enjoy or wish that there weren’t extensions, sometimes it's really nice to go back and spend more time with these characters if they evolve, if they grow, if they expand. So that, I’m very happy with. I feel like it was just as hard, if not harder, on Finding Dory to get it to feel inevitable and preordained, and that it was always of the larger piece."