Finding Dory is the 1 2016 3D computer-animated adventure movie produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Directed by Andrew Stanton under the co-direction of Angus MacLane, the script was written by Stanton and Victoria Strouse. The movie is a sequel/spin-off of Finding Nemo in 2003 and features the returning voices of Ellen DeGeneres and Albert Brooks, with Hayden Rolence (replacing Alexander Gould), Ed O’Neill, Kaitlin Olson, Ty Burrell, Diane Keaton, and Eugene Levy joining the cast. The movie focuses on the amnesiac fish Dory, who travels to reunite with his parents.
The movie debuted at the El Capitan Theater in Los Angeles on June 8, 2016, and premiered in the United States on June 17, 2016. After the release, the movie was well-received by critics and grossed more than $1 billion worldwide, making it Pixar’s second movie at $1 billion gross after Toy Story 3 in 2010, the third most 2016 blockbuster and the 22nd largest box office of every T Expos at the time of his theatrical career. The movie set numerous box office records, including the biggest opening for an animated movie in North America, and the highest-grossing movie in North America.
Dory, a royal blue Tang, is separated from his parents as a child. When he grows up, Dory tries to look for them, nevertheless gradually forgets them because of his short-term memory loss. In a flashback (from Finding Nemo), he joins Marlin-a clownfish in search of his missing son Nemo-after accidentally swimming in it.
A year after meeting Marlin and Nemo, Dory lives with them in his Recife. One day, Dory has a flashback and remembers her parents. She decides to look for them, nevertheless her memory problem is an obstacle. Suddenly remember that they lived in the “Jewel of Morro Bay, California” on the other side of the ocean, when Nemo mentions the name.
Marlin and Nemo accompany Dory on their journey. With the assist of Crush, his sea turtle friend, they ride present-day California to California. Upon arrival, they explode a shipwreck full of lost cargo, where Dory accidentally awakens a giant Humboldt squid, who chases them down and nearly devours Nemo. They manage to catch Lula in a large shipping container, and Marlin Repreys Dory to endanger. Her feelings hurt, Dory travels to the surface for assist where she is captured by staff members from the trio’s neighboring destination, the Marine Life Institute.
Dory’s quarantines and labels himself. There he meets a grumpy, nevertheless well-meaning octopus named Hank. Dory’s label Mark to be moved to an aquarium in Cleveland. Hank, who fears being released back to the ocean, agrees to assist Dory find his parents in exchange for his record label. In an exhibition, Dory finds his childhood friend Destiny, a myopic whale shark, who used to communicate with Dory through tubes, and Bailey, a beluga whale, who erroneously believes he has lost his ability to echolocate. Dory subsequently has life flashbacks with his parents and strives to remember details. She finally remembers how she was separated from her parents: she heard her mother cry one night, was to reclaim a shell to cheer her up, and was swept away by a stream of vegetation in the ocean.
Marlin and Nemo are trying to rescue Dory. With the assist of two California sea Lions sloth called Fluke and rudder and a common Loon named Becky, they manage to get into high school and find it in the piping system. Other Blue tangs tell them that Dory’s parents escaped from high school a long time ago to look for her and never came back, leaving Dory believing they were dead. Hank recovers Dory from the tank, leaving behind Marlin and Nemo. He is then seized by one of the officials and inadvertently drops Dory into the drain, throwing it into the ocean. As he wanders aimlessly, he finds a trail of shells; Remembering that, as a young man, his parents had set a similar path to assist her find her way home, she follows him. At the end of the trail, Dory finds an empty brain coral with several paths of shells leading to it. When he turns to go out, he sees his parents Jenny and Charlie at a distance. They tell her that they spent years paving the way for her to follow them in the hope that she would eventually find them.
Marlin, Nemo, and Hank end up in the truck bringing in several aquatic creatures to Cleveland. Destiny and Bailey escape their exposure to assist Dory rescue them. Once aboard the truck, Dory persuades Hank to go back to sea with her, and together, they kidnap the truck and drive it on busy roads, creating havoc, before hitting it at sea, releasing every the fish. Dory, along with his parents and new friends, returns to Recife with Marlin and Nemo.
In a post-credits scene, finding Nemo’s Tank Gang, still trapped inside his plastic bags (now covered in seaweed), arrives in California a year after floating across the Pacific Ocean, where they are caught by members of the Institute’s staff of marine life.
