Post by Yoyti on Jun 19, 2016 14:18:45 GMT -5
Saw Finding Dory today. Left satisfied.
The preceding short, Piper, was adorable. Probably my new favorite Pixar short -- although there was something odd about seeing such realistically rendered birds behaving in such a cartoonish fashion. I'm pretty well convinced now that Pixar's shorts are really just excuses to show off how much their animation has improved since the last one.
True to Pixar form, Finding Dory spends the first five-to-ten minutes making you cry. It felt a little more heavy-handed than some of Pixar's other openings, but it worked. I though the plot was rather meh, and many of the emotional moments felt more schmaltzy than emotional, but the characters were highly entertaining. I particularly enjoyed Hank and Destiny.
(In case it makes a difference, both those spoilers were to preserve jokes, not plot points.)
Starting out, I was worried that it was going to be another journey film. In Finding Nemo, they spent an entire movie just making it to Australia (from the Great Barrier Reef, apparently), and in this movie, they had to get all the way to California. A lot farther. (Would they actually have been able to cross that distance in a reasonable time frame? I don't think so, but I'm not one-hundred percent on assorted sea-animal migration.) About the time the squid showed up, I thought we were going to have another movie of them braving the various dangers of the ocean one after the other. Fortunately, the journey was condensed, and the rest of the film focused on new material. As I said, I really liked all the new characters, and a lot of the dialogue was very funny.
I kind of wish Marlin and Nemo had bigger parts. I think Marlin was significantly less prominent in Finding Dory than Dory was in Finding Nemo. In fact, I think Hank and Destiny might have been more prominent than Marlin.
All in all, I was not blown away, and frankly, I think I preferred The Good Dinosaur. But it was a very good film, and probably the best Pixar sequel that's not to Toy Story.
The preceding short, Piper, was adorable. Probably my new favorite Pixar short -- although there was something odd about seeing such realistically rendered birds behaving in such a cartoonish fashion. I'm pretty well convinced now that Pixar's shorts are really just excuses to show off how much their animation has improved since the last one.
True to Pixar form, Finding Dory spends the first five-to-ten minutes making you cry. It felt a little more heavy-handed than some of Pixar's other openings, but it worked. I though the plot was rather meh, and many of the emotional moments felt more schmaltzy than emotional, but the characters were highly entertaining. I particularly enjoyed Hank and Destiny.
Destiny and Dory conversing in whale did bother me a little bit, because Destiny is a whale shark -- not an actual whale. But between Dory and Destiny, I guess it's plausible that neither of them know the difference -- Although Destine did seem to know a thing or two about belugas -- speaking of which, Bailey did not speak whale.
(My favorite new character was, of course, Sigourney Weaver.)
(In case it makes a difference, both those spoilers were to preserve jokes, not plot points.)
Starting out, I was worried that it was going to be another journey film. In Finding Nemo, they spent an entire movie just making it to Australia (from the Great Barrier Reef, apparently), and in this movie, they had to get all the way to California. A lot farther. (Would they actually have been able to cross that distance in a reasonable time frame? I don't think so, but I'm not one-hundred percent on assorted sea-animal migration.) About the time the squid showed up, I thought we were going to have another movie of them braving the various dangers of the ocean one after the other. Fortunately, the journey was condensed, and the rest of the film focused on new material. As I said, I really liked all the new characters, and a lot of the dialogue was very funny.
I felt Dory should have remembered the address a bit better than she did, given that she picked up P. Sherman 42 Wallaby Way Sydney alright. When she was having trouble remembering where she was going, I half-expected her to mumble the P. Sherman address.
I kind of wish Marlin and Nemo had bigger parts. I think Marlin was significantly less prominent in Finding Dory than Dory was in Finding Nemo. In fact, I think Hank and Destiny might have been more prominent than Marlin.
All in all, I was not blown away, and frankly, I think I preferred The Good Dinosaur. But it was a very good film, and probably the best Pixar sequel that's not to Toy Story.