![]() ![]() As they navigated the perils of the open sea beyond Marlin’s cozy home reef, he operated at a constant slow boil of very Albert Brooksian frustration over his unflaggingly cheerful sidekick’s short-term memory deficits. Dory’s breezy inability to retain new information for more than a few seconds at a time served, in the original film, primarily as a source of comic relief in contrast to the high-strung and micromanaging fish-dad Marlin (voiced by Albert Brooks). ![]() This delightful new movie’s heroine, a blue-and-gold surgeonfish voiced to perfection by Ellen DeGeneres, played a supporting (albeit crucial) role in Finding Nemo. If Finding Nemo, ostensibly the story of a widowed clownfish’s search for his missing son, was in fact a canny parable about the joys and anxieties of parenthood, its 13-years-later sequel Finding Dory explores-in Pixar’s typically whimsical, jewel-toned, sight-gag-stuffed fashion-an entirely different existential condition of adulthood: the grown-up child’s quest to reclaim and understand his or her ever-receding past. ![]()
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