Repaying the faith shown by Dory in that first ocean-spanning adventure, her new friends join her and - by way of an encounter with a furious giant squid - find themselves at Californian aquarium and conservation centre the Marine Life Institute. ![]() This early revelation - Dory’s back story is that she basically hasn’t got one - is a potent reminder that Andrew Stanton (the returning Finding Nemo writer-director who also gave us WALL-E’s lonely robot in a trash-piled dystopia) is unafraid to add tragic undercurrents to something that’s notionally a family film.įlash forward a year and, after the events of Finding Nemo, Dory has formed a happy family of sorts with Marlin and his son (Hayden Rolence) until some flashbacks to fragmented childhood memories have her seeking a parental reunion of her own. After Piper, a nicely paired short about a plucky seabird, we meet Dory (Ellen DeGeneres) as a cute (but still troublingly forgetful) kid who mysteriously loses her parents then wanders the ocean for years, trying to plug the holes in her sieve-like brain until she crashes into a panicked clownfish called Marlin (Albert Brooks). It helps that, like Pixar’s pitches, there’s an elegant simplicity to the way the plot turns the first film on its head.
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