Finding Dory is a delightful sequel that gives further life to some of Pixar’s most loveable characters.
Finding Dory is a warm, funny, technically-brilliant animation that adds to the themes and story of its much-loved predecessor.
Pixar sequel-phobes be damned — this is a dazzling and technically impressive return to form that delivers a similar high to Finding Nemo without feeling like a retread.
For all its attempts to expand the original’s ensemble and embellish its themes, Dory is cod in batter beside Nemo’s smoked salmon. But still tasty.
Stuffed to the gills with gags and generates plenty of empathy for the Ellen DeGeneres-voiced Dory.
There are large dollops of sentimentality and we all know just how the story is going to end but there’s an enjoyably anarchic undertow to proceedings, not least when the fish commandeer a lorry and race the wrong way up a freeway.
Finding Dory is funny and makes the most of a talented vocal cast.
This moderately entertaining film has so many parallels with 2003’s Finding Nemo that it seems less like a sequel and more like a clone.
A forgetful fish searches for its family in this charming sequel to Finding Nemo.
Stuffed to the gills with gags and generates plenty of empathy for the Ellen DeGeneres-voiced Dory.
Pixar director Andrew Stanton on finding a story for Dory.
General release. Check local listings for show times.
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