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Finding Dory is a 2016 American 3D computer-animated comedy adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Directed and co-written by Andrew Stanton with co-direction by Angus MacLane,[5][6] the screenplay was co-written by Victoria Strouse and Stanton.[7] The film is a sequel to 2003's Finding Nemo, and features the reprised voices of Ellen DeGeneres and Albert Brooks, as well as the voices of Ed O'Neill, Kaitlin Olson, Ty Burrell, Diane Keatonand Eugene Levy.
Finding Dory focuses on the amnesiac fish Dory, who journeys to be reunited with her parents.[8] Along the way, she is captured and taken to a California public aquarium, from which Marlin and Nemo attempt to rescue her.[9]
The film premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles on June 8, 2016, and was released in the United States on June 17, 2016.[10] It received positive reviews and has grossed over $644 million worldwide. The film set numerous records, including the biggest animated opening of all time in North America and has become the biggest Pixar film in China.
Contents[hide]Plot[edit]
One year after reuniting Nemo with his father Marlin, Dory has become a helping hand in raising Nemo. One day, while with Nemo's class, Dory remembers that she has a family. She longs to find her parents, though she finds it hard to rely on her short-term memory loss. The only thing she remembers is that they lived at the Jewel of Morro Bay.
Marlin and Nemo accompany Dory in her quest. With the help of Crush, they ride the water current to California. On arrival, they are forced to flee from a predatory giant squid that nearly devours Nemo. Afterwards, Marlin tends to his son, and is sour toward Dory for getting them into the mess. Hurt, Dory travels to the surface to seek help and is rescued by the Marine Life Institute after being caught in six pack rings, becoming separated from Marlin and Nemo.
Dory is sent to the Quarantine section and tagged. There she meets a grouchy, seven-legged octopus named Hank. Dory's tag shows that she will be sent to a permanent aquarium in Cleveland. Due to a traumatic ocean life, Hank wants to live in the aquarium, so he agrees to help Dory find her parents in exchange for her tag. In one exhibit, Dory encounters her childhood friend, Destiny, a nearsighted whale shark who communicated with Dory through pipes, and Bailey a beluga whale who believes he is unable to echolocate. Dory learns that the regal blue tangs are being moved to Cleveland. She subsequently has flashbacks of life with her parents, and struggles to improve her memory, which help her solve certain situations.
Marlin and Nemo attempt to rescue Dory. With the help of sea lions and a common loon named Becky, they manage to get into the Institute. Dory finally remembers how she became separated from her parents: she had overheard her mother crying out of concern for her, left her home to retrieve a shell in hopes of cheering her up, and was pulled away by the undertow.
Dory reunites with Marlin and Nemo in the pipe system. Back in Quarantine, they locate the tank of blue tangs, who tell her that her parents escaped to search for Dory and never came back. Dory believes her parents are dead. Hank retrieves Dory from the tank, leaving Marlin and Nemo behind. He is then apprehended by one of the employees and accidentally drops Dory into the drain that takes her to the ocean. Dory comes across a trail of shells, remembering that when she was young, her parents had set out a similar trail for her so that she could always follow it and find her way back home. At the end of the trail, Dory finds her parents, Charlie, and Jenny, and joyfully reunites with them. They tell her they have spent years forming trails of shells for her to follow in the hopes that she would eventually find them.
Marlin and Nemo end up in the truck that will take the fish to Cleveland. Destiny and Bailey help Dory in rescuing them. Dory persuades Hank to come back to the ocean with her, and they hijack the truck and crash it into the water, freeing all the fish. Dory leads a new life in the reef with her parents, Marlin, Nemo, Destiny, Bailey and Hank.
In a post-credits scene, the Tank Gang, still trapped in their now algae-covered plastic bags, reach California after a year of floating across the Pacific. They are then rescued by volunteers.
Voice cast[edit]
Production[edit]
Prior to work on Finding Dory, Disney had planned to make a Finding Nemo sequel without Pixar's involvement, through Circle 7 Animation, a studio Disney announced in 2005 with the intention to make sequels to Pixar properties.[13][14] However, in 2006, Circle 7 was shut down by Disney without ever having produced a film.[15]
In July 2012, it was reported that Andrew Stanton was developing a sequel to Finding Nemo,[16] with Victoria Strouse writing the script and a release date scheduled for 2016.[17] However, the same day the news of a potential sequel broke, Stanton posted a message on his personal Twitter calling into question the accuracy of these reports. The message said, "Didn't you all learn from Chicken Little? Everyone calm down. Don't believe everything you read. Nothing to see here now. #skyisnotfalling."[18]According to a report by The Hollywood Reporter published in August 2012, Ellen DeGeneres was in negotiations to reprise her role of Dory.[19] In September 2012, it was confirmed by Stanton, saying: "What was immediately on the list was writing a second Carter movie. When that went away, everything slid up. I know I'll be accused by more sarcastic people that it's a reaction to Carter not doing well, but only in its timing, but not in its conceit."[20] In February 2013, it was confirmed by the press that Albert Brooks would reprise the role of Marlin in the sequel.[21]
In April 2013, Disney announced the sequel, Finding Dory, for November 25, 2015, confirming that DeGeneres and Brooks would be reprising their roles as Dory and Marlin, respectively.[22] Following a long campaign for a sequel on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, DeGeneres stated:
In a July 2013 interview with Los Angeles Times, Stanton spoke of the sequel's origin: "There was polite inquiry from Disney [about a Finding Nemo sequel]. I was always 'No sequels, no sequels.' But I had to get on board from a VP standpoint. [Sequels] are part of the necessity of our staying afloat, but we don't want to have to go there for those reasons. We want to go there creatively, so we said [to Disney], 'Can you give us the timeline about when we release them? Because we'd like to release something we actually want to make, and we might not come up with it the year you want it.'"[23]
In a 2016 interview Stanton stated how the film's story came to be; "I don't watch my films that often after they're done because I have to watch them so many times before they come out. So about 2010 when we were getting Finding Nemo ready for the 10-year re-release in 3D, it was interesting to watch again after all that time. Something kind of got lodged in the back of my brain and started to sort of stew. I started to think about how easily Dory could get lost and not find Marlin and Nemo again. She basically was in the same state that she was when Marlin found her. I didn't know where she was from. I knew that she had spent most of her youth wandering the ocean alone, and I wanted to know that she could find her new family, if she ever got lost again. It's almost like the parental side of me was worried." Stanton additionally stated: "I knew if I ever said Finding Dory or mentioned a sequel to Finding Nemo out loud, I’d be done, [T]here would be no way I'd be able to put that horse back in the barn. So I kept it very quiet until I knew I had a story that I thought would hold, and that was in early 2012. So I pitched it to John Lasseter and he was all into it. Then I got a writer, and once we had a treatment that we kind of liked, I felt comfortable calling Ellen."[24]
Stanton selected Victoria Strouse to write the screenplay. She later said, "It was always collaborative with Andrew, but really the screenwriting was me. Of course, Andrew would do passes, and he and I would brainstorm a lot together and then we would bring it to the group of story artists. People would weigh in and share ideas."[25] She pointed to Dory's forgetfulness as a challenge when writing the script, adding, "You don't realize until you sit down to write a character who can't remember things how integral memory is to absolutely everything we do, and that's what creates a narrative that people can follow. When a main character can't self-reflect and can't tell a story, that character is very difficult to design because she can't really lead. To get her to be able to lead and to get an audience to be able to trust her was the hardest thing to do."[25]
The film's ending was revised after Pixar executives viewed Blackfish, a 2013 documentary film which focuses on the dangers of keeping orca whales in captivity. Initially, some of the characters were to end up in a SeaWorld-like marine park, but the revision gave them an option to leave.[26][27] On September 18, 2013, it was announced that the film would be pushed back to a June 17, 2016, release. Pixar's The Good Dinosaur was moved to the November 25, 2015, slot to allow more time for production of the film.[28]
In June 2014, it was revealed through Stanton's Twitter feed that the film would be co-directed by Angus MacLane.[29]
In August 2015, at Disney's D23 Expo, it was announced that Hayden Rolence would voice Nemo, replacing Alexander Gould from the first film, whose voice has deepened since reaching adulthood (Gould voiced a minor character in the sequel instead).[30][31] In addition to Rolence, Ed O'Neill was revealed to be the voice of Hank.[30]
Soundtrack[edit]
Finding Dory: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack for the film and it is composed by Thomas Newman.[32] It was released on June 17, 2016.[33]
Louis Armstrong's version of "What a Wonderful World" is heard as the fish are released by accident into the bay.[citation needed]
On May 20, 2016, Sia performed a cover of Nat King Cole's "Unforgettable" on The Ellen DeGeneres Show after it was announced it would be featured in the film.[citation needed]
Track listing[edit]
Release[edit]
Finding Dory premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles on June 8, 2016, and was theatrically released in the United States on June 17, 2016, in 2D, Disney Digital 3-D and RealD 3D.[5][6] It was also released to IMAX 3D theaters.[34] In April 2016, it was announced that a new Pixar short, Piper, directed by Alan Barillaro and with music by Adrian Belew, would be shown in front of the film.[35] It had its UK premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival on June 18, 2016.[36][37]
Finding Dory premiered in Indonesia the same day as its U.S. release and was released in both English and Bahasa Indonesia to allow young Indonesian children to have more appreciation of the Indonesian language; it was released under the title, Mencari Dory. This is the second Pixar film to be dubbed in Indonesian, after The Good Dinosaur.[38][39][40]
Reception[edit]Box office[edit]
As of July 10, 2016, Finding Dory has grossed $423 million in North America and $221.8 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $644.8 million, against a budget of $200 million.[4] It had a worldwide opening of $185.7 million, which is the second biggest of all time for an animated film behind only Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs ($218.4 million), and an IMAX global opening of $6.4 million.[41][42]
Worldwide, it is the sixth highest-grossing film of 2016, the second highest-grossing animated film of 2016,[43] the eighth highest-grossing Pixar film,[44] and the twenty-fifth highest-grossing animated film of all time.[citation needed]
North America[edit]
In the United States and Canada, Finding Dory opened on June 17, 2016, alongside Central Intelligence, with projections having the film grossing $110–120 million[45][46][47][48] in its opening weekend, with some estimates going as high as $130 million.[49][50] It received the widest release for a Pixar film (4,305 theaters, breaking Brave's record), of which 3,200 venues were in 3D, along with 425 premium large format locales, approximately 100 IMAX theaters and a handful of Dolby Cinemasites.[47] It was Fandango's top pre-selling animated film of all time, outselling the previous record-holder, Minions.[51] The film grossed $9.2 million from Thursday night previews, a record for both Pixar and any animated film,[52][53] and $54.7 million on its opening day, marking both the biggest opening day and single-day for an animated film. This also marks the first time that an animated film has grossed over $50 million in a single day.[54][55] It went on to gross $135.1 million in its opening weekend, finishing first at the box office and setting the record for the highest opening weekend for a Pixar film (breaking Toy Story 3's record) and for an overall animated film (breaking Shrek the Third's record), becoming the third biggest adjusted for inflation.[56] It is also the second highest opening for Walt Disney Studios Motion Picturesbehind Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest's $135.6 million that isn't a Marvel film or Star Wars: The Force Awakens and is the studio's seventh biggest debut overall.[41][57] It also became the fifth animated film and the fifth film of 2016 to open above $100 million.[58] Morever, its opening also marked the second biggest for the month of June, behind only Jurassic World.[59] Its opening was 93.8% above Finding Nemo's $70.3 million debut.[60] It further broke the record for the biggest PLF andCinemark XD opening for an animated film with $10.4 million and $2.6 million respectively. In IMAX, it made $5 million from 211 IMAX theaters,[61] the third best animated IMAX opening, behind Zootopia ($5.2 million) and Toy Story 3 ($8.4 million).[62]
Following its record breaking openings, it scored the biggest Pixar Monday by grossing $19.5 million, breaking Toy Story 3's $15.6 million, and the best Monday in June for an animated film. However, among all animated films, it is second, behind only Shrek 2 which made $23.4 million on its first Monday.[63][64] And also, the biggest Tuesday for an animated film with $23.1 million, besting Minions' $16.8 million.[65] It jumped 18.5% over its Monday gross, a rare achievement for a film.[66] It crossed the $200 million mark in its first seven days, becoming the first (and fastest) animated film to pass the said milestone in just a week.[67] It fell only 46% in its second weekendearning $73 million to record the biggest second weekend animated film (breaking Shrek 2's $72.1 million previous record), the biggest for Disney and 2016 (surpassingCaptain America: Civil War's $72.6 million), and the eighth biggest second weekend gross of all time overall.[68][69] This was despite facing stiff competition from newcomerIndependence Day: Resurgence.[70] It crossed $300 million in twelve days—a new record for an animated film, surpassing the previous record held by Shrek 2 and Toy Story 3 which both took eighteen days,[71] and became the second animated film of 2016 (after Zootopia), the fourth Disney film of 2016, and the sixth overall film of the year to cross the milestone.[72] It continued to dominate the box office for the third straight weekend despite competitions from three new wide releases—The Legend of Tarzan,The Purge: Election Year, and The BFG—after witnessing a 43% decline to $41.8 million in three days and $51.4 million in four days, respectively, during the Independence Day holiday frame.[73] This made it the second time in two years and just the third time since 1992, the July 4th holiday box office was topped by a film in its third weekend of release.[74] It passed the $400 million mark in a record-breaking twenty-one days, which is the fastest for an animated film, the fastest of 2016, the fastest for the studio and the fifth fastest of all time overall. Morever, it became the second film of 2016 (after Captain America: Civil War), the fifth animated film, the ninth film for the studio, and the twenty-fourth film overall to pass the milestone,[75][76] and the following day, it surpassed Civil War to become the biggest film of the year.[77]
Although the film was finally overtaken by The Secret Life of Pets in its fourth weekend, it nevertheless passed The Lion King to become the highest-grossing Disney animated film of all-time in the same weekend surpassing the latter which held the record for 15 non-consecutive years.[78]
It is the highest-grossing film of 2016,[79] the highest-grossing Pixar film,[44] the second highest-grossing Disney animated film (behind The Lion King), the third highest-grossing animated film,[80] and the sixteenth highest grossing film of all time.[81]
Outside North America[edit]
Internationally, Finding Dory will receive a staggered release in a span of four months from June to September, with Germany being the last country. This was done in order take advantage of key holidays and competitive dates around the world.[82][83] It was released across 29 countries—which is 32% of its entire international release territories—the same weekend as its U.S. premiere. It made an estimated $50.7 million to take the No. 1 spot at the international box office.[61] In its second weekend, it added $38.7 million from 37 markets, falling in third place behind Independence Day: Resurgence and Now You See Me 2.[82] In the same weekend along with its $73 million take in North America, the film helped Pixar cross the $10 billion mark worldwide since Toy Story (1995).[82] By its fourth weekend, the animated film helped Disney push past the $3 billion mark internationally and $5 billion globally.[84][85]
It had the biggest opening for an animated film in Brazil ($7.1 million) and the Netherlands ($2.1 million),[83] and the biggest of all time for a Disney/Pixar film in Australia ($7.7 million), the Philippines ($2.1 million), Singapore ($1.3 million), India ($1 million), Indonesia, Peru and Central America, and in Russia it opened with $3.19 million,[61][83] and the second biggest in Argentina ($3.5 million), and that's despite amidst the country's Copa America soccer match, and Colombia ($2.1 million), behindMonsters University.[61] In Brazil, in addition to recording the biggest Disney/Pixar opening ever, almost twice the previous record held by The Good Dinosaur, it also set a new record for all-time animated opening, on par with Minions in local currency.[83] In South Korea, it had the biggest opening for a Pixar film with $7.1 million, which is also the second biggest for a Disney animated film, behind Frozen.[84] It had further number one openings in Spain ($4.9 million), France ($4.7 million) and Taiwan ($1.9 million).[82][84] It topped the box office in Spain and Australia for four consecutive weekends.[84]
In China, where Pixar films have been struggling to find broad audiences and accrue lucrative revenues, the film was projected to make around $30 million in its opening weekend.[86] The film ended up grossing $17.7 million—the highest Pixar opening in the country's history—debuting in second place, behind Warcraft.[61] It surpassedMonsters University in just seven days to become the biggest Pixar film there with $38.1 million.[83][84]
It is now the highest-grossing Disney animation or Pixar film in Indonesia, Philippines and India and the second highest in Australia, behind Toy Story 3.[84] Elsewhere, the biggest markets in terms of total earnings are Australia ($30.1 million), followed by Brazil ($17.1 million), France ($13.7 million) and Spain ($13.2 million).[84]
Critical response[edit]
Finding Dory has received general acclaim from critics. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 95%, based on 205 reviews, with an average rating of 7.7/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Funny, poignant, and thought-provoking, Finding Dory delivers a beautifully animated adventure that adds another entertaining chapter to its predecessor's classic story."[87] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 77 out of 100 based on 48 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews."[88] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.[89]
Mike Ryan of Uproxx gave the film a positive review, saying: "I never thought I wanted a sequel to Finding Nemo, but here we are and I'm pretty happy it exists. And, for me, it was a more emotional experience than the first film. Finding Dory got me – it made me cry."[90] A.O. Scott of The New York Times said that while the film lacks "dazzling originality," he overall wrote, "it more than makes up for in warmth, charm and good humor."[91] In his review for Variety, Owen Gleiberman wrote, "It's a film that spills over with laughs (most of them good, a few of them shticky) and tears (all of them earned), supporting characters who are meant to slay us (and mostly do) with their irascible sharp tongues, and dizzyingly extended flights of physical comedy."[92] The Wall Street Journal's Joe Morgenstern said, "Finding Dory can be touching, sweet and tender, but it's compulsively, preposterously and steadfastly funny."[93] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave the movie three-and-a-half out of four stars and said that the film "brims with humor, heart and animation miracles," despite lacking "the fresh surprise of its predecessor."[94]
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