That octopus is a scene-stealer, but he’s got nothing on baby Dory. Seen in flashbacks, the young dory is the most adorable thing Pixar’s ever animated, with eyes bigger than her entire body and a squeaky voice (Sloane Murray and Lucia Geddes) to deliver the same stream-of-consciousness lines. Photo courtesy Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.
Time for another Disney Pixar sequel that isn’t The Incredibles 2.
Finding Dory takes us back to the Great Barrier Reef where Dory (Ellen DeGeneres) has made her home with Marlin (Albert Brooks) and Nemo (Hayden Rolence) for a year since their adventure in Finding Nemo. Dory famously suffers from short-term memory loss, but out of nowhere, she remembers where her family is and scrambles to go to them. The problem is, they turn out to be from the Marine Life Institute of Morro Bay, Calif., all the way on the other side of the Pacific Ocean.
The length of the journey is weirdly overlooked by the film, which spends most of its time with the principle characters having gotten out of the ocean and into the Marine Life Center’s quarantine. There, Dory meets Hank (Ed O’Neill), a hard-boiled octopus sneaking around the park. Most of the movie consists of him carrying Dory around in a coffee pot full of water.
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