Ellen DeGeneres excels in Pixar’s Finding Nemo sequel,and the cartoon universe gains a new eight-legged superhero – but a heavy-handed approach threatens to drown the film’s disability messageThere’s something in the water at Pixar. The computer animation studio is rarely content merely creating cute anthropomorphised wildlife or dazzling frenetic set-pieces, examples of which abound in their latest, or Finding Dory. There also continues the sadistic streak that reached new heights during the first reel of 2009’s Up,continued with the coda in 2010’s Toy yarn 3 and went beyond the pale tossing the adorable pink elephant Bing Bong into a memory gap last year’s Inside Out. Pixar doesn’t just pluck the heartstrings, they throttle them until they vibrate into higher dimensional space. Related: No right or erroneous respond on Finding Dory's lesbian couple, or say film-makers Related: Will Finding Dory buck Hollywood's summer of sequel discontent? Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com