Finding Dory

By: Lisa Steinberg

Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz is right, there’s no place like home. And that’s exactly what Dory comes to realize in Disney’s new animated film Finding Dory.  In the follow up to 2003’s movie Finding Nemo, we find our favorite fish on another adventure of a lifetime.

Ever since she was born, Dory (voiced by Ellen DeGeneres) has suffered from short term memory loss. Her parents tried to teach her tricks and phrases to help her so that she doesn’t forget her way. When young Dory gets too close to the current, she gets swept away from her parents (voiced by Eugene Levy and Diane Keaton) and the life she knows becomes a ball of confusion. When a trip to see the Sting Ray migration triggers some memories for older Dory, she sets out to find her family. Not to be left alone because she becomes easily confused, Nemo (Hayden Rolence) and Marlin (Albert Brooks) decide to go on the heart warming and humorous journey with Dory.

The group sets off across the ocean to California by hitching a ride on some totally rad sea turtles. Crush (Andrew Stanton) and Squirt (Bennett Dammann) take them for a swim and they end up at a Wild Life Preserve. That’s where Dory makes friends with an ornery octopus named Hank (voiced by Ed O’Neill), Bailey (Ty Burrell) a beluga whale whose sonar seems to be on the fritz and a whale shark named Destiny (Kaitlin Olson) who is near sighted and needs a great deal of guidance. Marlin and Nemo also get a few helping fins with two silly seals names Fluke (Idris Elba) and Rudder Sea (Dominic West).

Finding Dory has so many messages mixed into it like the importance of family, to never give up, there is always another way and more! The film will touch your heart and remind you that life is precious so we should keep swimming. It’s funny and filled with one wild ride after another. Little kids will get a kick out of all the cute characters and the adults can share in and savor the under the sea sweetness!

Take your family to see Finding Dory for all the laughter and love.