Throughout the film, director Andrew Stanton attempts to yank out our adult hearts while satisfying our childhood sense of humor and joy. The transition in Up works because we find ourselves in a dark comedy, rather than a broad one like Finding Dory.
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The prospect that Dory could become an outcast again is almost too much to handle in a movie that tonally shifts in the other direction right after its opening. Sure, they’ve utilized outsiders before, most notably in A Bug’s Life and Ratatouillie but Flik and Remy are only outsiders thanks to their creative gifts that have yet to be fully realized. Therefore, Dory becomes Pixar’s first true outcast protagonist. High stakes are a requirement for any good film, but there’s something particularly dark when thinking about how many years Dory must’ve wandered the ocean, asking thousands of fish the same question and rarely receiving an affirmative answer: “Can you help me?” These fish legitimately look like Dory’s parents… That’s just really good animation right there. We know Carl will never get his beloved back, but Dory’s stakes are remarkably high, considering she could lose everyone, and thus all the new memories she’s been able to make, in the blink of an eye, sending her right back to her lonely life.
Remember Up‘s (2009) brilliantly depressing opening montage? Finding Dory‘s first sequence is just as tear inducing, but infused with even more disturbing elements while Carl Fredrickson lived a full, joyful life with his Ellie, Dory (Ellen DeGeneres) lost her parents as a child. So have we finally reached the point where you actually review the film?ĬIOQAE, I’m working through some nostalgia, okay? Just give me this.
All I’m saying is that’s what happened here, and while I’m sure Finding Dory is a particularly fine film, it just didn’t work for me, in part because of Finding Nemo. I have very few beloved childhood films, so the ones I do have I hold pretty close. Basically, if Finding Dory didn’t live up to my expectation, which was obviously colored by my love of Finding Nemo, I’m more likely to hate it even more than I legitimately should, no matter what my review says. Take The Good Dinosaur (2015) that movie was much too similar to The Lion King (1994) and that made me angry. Sounds like you’re saying that you’re more likely to hate a film if it’s a sequel? Cause that’s not really much of a new thing to say… You, my friend, were particularly frustrating. Have other films harmed the movies on that list?Ībsolutely! Any of the Shrek sequels, The Dark Knight Rises (2012), and The Hangover‘s sequels. As you can imagine, I’m particularly careful around anything that could potentially harm the memories tied to that list. Some of the other memorable experiences include: Shrek (2001), The Dark Knight (2008), Inglorious Basterds (2009), and The Hangover (2009). My memory continued to fail me up until late high school, so the theatergoing experiences I can recall are few and far between, regardless of how many films I saw (which actually was not that many). So I have a particularly poor memory my first memory is of my 8th birthday, so just two and a half years before I saw Finding Nemo for the first time. Confused Italicized Occasionally Questioning Alter Ego.
This has led me to believe that perhaps I didn’t like Finding Dory because Finding Nemo so firmly imprinted itself in my heart. While I’ve never been able to recreate that exact experience (trust me, I’ve tried), the film still holds up very well over time (just like every good Pixar movie). We were 10, and the underwater epic put us in stitches, peaking when Dory revealed she could speak whale. I sat next to my friend Andrew Johnson at his brother’s 6th birthday party. I have a deep connection to Finding Nemo (2003), in that it is my best remembered early theatergoing experience. Finding Nemo: A film that means a great deal to me.
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