Becky is by far the best of the new characters and although she’s not in many scenes and doesn’t even speak she steals every scene she’s in. These new characters include the aforementioned Hank (Ed O’Neill), the sea lions Rudder and Fluke (Dominic West and Idris Elba – though there is disappointingly no mention of the Pacific Rim breach), Destiny the whale shark (Kaitlin Olson), Bailey the beluga whale (Ty Burrell) and lastly Becky the loon bird. All the new characters inside the marine rescue centre (based on Vancouver Aquarium) have some form of disability. I’ve not seen a kids’ movie that is so overtly positive towards disabled characters as Finding Dory is and I love it. Each of the characters is disabled in some way, and through perseverance or with the help of their friends the characters overcome their perceived limitations and triumph–aside from Marlin, who is really just kind of a jerk (though he does kind of overcome that too). I’d certainly ship them but it’s frustrating that we have to rely on body language and looks instead of Disney just saying ‘Yes, they happen to be lesbian.’ The couple gets a small cute scene with Hank the septapus (as they have seven legs not eight) and Dory–which conveniently brings us to the best part of Finding Dory. The official word came down from Disney-Pixar that they could be ‘whatever you want them to be’–straight coding for ‘yes, but we’re not going to say.’ Very disappointing, Disney. The trailer showed two women together and many people assumed from their looks, proximity and body language that they were lesbians. Two women shocked at Disney not confirming they are a lesbian couple I wish Ellen cared about transgender people but her repeated behavior says she doesn’t–however, you can see this movie without worrying about encountering any bad trans jokes. It turns out that this was another of Ellen’s jokes made in poor taste at the trans community’s expense–her third in recent years. All trans people started panicking about cis-written trans representation and hoping that it wasn’t a mess. Before the movie’s release she was joking around about a transgender stingray–“ We have a stingray that become a sting-Rhonda”–and people started wondering if Finding Dory could be considered a film with trans representation. If you’re an animation fan like me then it’s worth the price of admission just to see this short on the big screen.Īs well as ignoring the Finding Dory trailers, you also have to ignore Ellen DeGeneres, who continues to be a jerk to transgender people. It’s cute and funny, one of the best Pixar shorts for quite some time. The little piper makes a mistake and is hit by a large wave and then has to overcome their fear of the water. In it we meet a baby piper who is learning to feed themselves for the first time, encouraged by their watchful parent. The short is called Piper and it’s about sandpipers, small birds that mostly eat at the tidal line, either wading or dodging the waves to get at food. That said, it’s not as good as the Pixar short that runs before the movie. The virtual camera swoops past so many fish it’s a wonderful sight. Finding Dory looks sharper, with so much more going on compared to the original. In real time it’s 14 years later and CGI has improved a lot. In movie time, Finding Dory takes place just one year after the original Pixar classic. It’s taken the heart of the first movie and ramped up the characters’ personas, action and most importantly the emotions. When approaching this review, all I needed to ask myself was–what would Dory do? She’d ignore the mediocre trailers, for a start Finding Dory is as good as if not slightly better than Finding Nemo.
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