Finding Dory

Release Date: June 17, 2016

Starring: Ellen DeGeneres as Dory
Albert Brooks as Marlin
Ed O'Neill as Hank
Kaitlin Olson as Destiny
Hayden Rolence as Nemo
Ty Burrell as Bailey

Directed by: Andrew Stanton

Written by: Andrew Stanton, Victoria Strouse, Bob Peterson and Angus MacLane

A year after Nemo's great adventure Dory remember that she has a family of her own. Now desperate to find them she requests Marlins and Nemo's help to reunited her and her family.

As far a sequels go, this movie was decent. When you make a sequel on a movie that just did alright in the box office then the sequel sometimes makes the first movie overall better. However, when you mess with a classic it's never going to live up to the hype. Finding Dory is the latter. When the plot of the sequel is the same plot as the first film but you change up the characters it makes it rather boring to watch. Granted kid everywhere love the film and families love going to see a film that everyone can enjoy but it's a sad attempt at recreating the first film uniqueness.

Don't get me wrong you have a great cast of people who are involved, who are all funny in their own way. They would make a great cast on a movie that was not a sequel. However, I found myself longing for it to be something different, something fresh, but that is not what it ended up being. There were funny moments and the animation was great, but your thinking that this movie was going to be all about Dory and her story. It was. Just it was way to heavily reliant on the first film.

It had the potential, and the fan base, to launch it off as it's own movie. To make it feel more or a continuation of the story instead of making it seem like a repeat of itself. I felt that it needed more of it's own story, and own uniqueness instead of borrowing from the story before it.