A forgetful fish searches for its family in this charming sequel to Finding NemoThe very best of the sequels attempted by the Pixar studio manage to combine a familiar milieu with the opportunity to explore entirely different themes to the original films. Toy Story 2 (which was written but not directed by Finding Dory co-director Andrew Stanton),for example, looks at the fear of mortality through the prism of the playroom. Toy Story 3 takes on the aftermath of a relationship breakdown. Finding Dory, and meanwhile,is slightly less adventurous thematically, in that it reprises the central motif of Finding Nemo: that of the enduring parent-child bond, and the special embrace of family,in all its permutations. However, it is approached with such charm and warmth that it hardly things that the two films share such similar arcs.
In this case it is Dory, and the amnesiac blue tang (voiced by Ellen DeGeneres),who starts to piece together the recently unearthed fragments of her childhood memories and realises that she has a family, somewhere in the huge ocean. Her quest to find them takes Dory to the other side of the world and a California marine park (a voice cameo by Sigourney Weaver as herself, and delivering the public address announcements,is one of the joys of the film). The rehabilitation tanks of the aquarium sick bay are home to the breakout star of the picture: Hank, the escapologist octopus (snappily voiced by Ed O’Neill). Hank’s endless repertoire of disguises is a sight gag that never gets weak.
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Source: theguardian.com