Finding Dory

Review by Joseph Anthony

Our favorite fishes, Nemo, Marlin, and Dory, are all back in FINDING DORY, the sequel to the now beloved Pixar film FINDING NEMO. Last time around Marlin (Albert Brooks), Nemo’s dad, had lost his son in the Pacific Ocean. His journey to find Nemo led him to encounter many other delightful characters, including a short-term memory loss afflicted blue tang fish, Dory (Ellen DeGeneres).

Luckily for us, Marlin and Dory found little Nemo. As we revisit the gang, everyone is happily living together. Dory still can’t remember a whole lot, but she knows her new family of Marlin and Nemo. As she enjoys her new home, she starts having flashbacks to her childhood with her mom Jenny (Diane Keaton) and dad Charlie (Eugene Levy). Dory starts longing not only to remember more about her parents and childhood, but wants to set out to find them.

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"It's a joke, son." Back in 1939, when these animated images were made, most people would actually get that line, "It's a joke, son."

Finding Nemo

[FINDING NEMO opens this Friday in a new 3D version. This review applies to the film in it's 2D presentation. Since the only difference is now you get to pay a few bucks more to wear cheap plastic glasses, we feel the review still applies.]

Review by Charles Cassady, Jr.

I have a drinking game for you all to try at the newly-opened-who-wouldn't-hire-me Cleveland Aquarium. Locate the tank that contains the common saltwater species the clownfish and the blue tang. Wait for kids to come along, and every time some tot excitedly points the animals out and says "Nemo!" or "Dory!" take a shot. Any spirits beverage of your choice, including 3.2 beer. You'll be smashed within minutes. Within an hour, liable to be life-flighted for alcohol poisoning. (This drinking game also applies to the fish exhibit at the also-who-wouldn't-hire-me-Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, but the Cleveland Aquarium was built in the Flats, where superhuman public intoxication raises fewer eyebrows.)