Here, however, the optical and dramatic possibilities available in an ocean full of sea life are shortchanged by the story’s far-too-quick move to the physically and visually more limited environs of the Marine Life Institute in California, an aquatic rehab center (amusingly presided over vocally by Sigourney Weaver) which in less politically correct times would no doubt have been a Sea World-type entertainment park. Still, leviathan-sized box office is assured, given the multiple brand names - Disney, Pixar and Nemo/Dory - and the fact that Nemo, at $936 million, stands as the second-highest worldwide grosser of all Pixar features, second only to Toy Story 3. But its thematic preoccupation with “family” is so narrow, and its sense of narrative invention is so limited compared to Finding Nemo, that impatience surpasses enjoyment well before the predictable climax. Feeling driven more by commercial exigencies than by vital creative impulses, this 13-years-after follow-up to Pixar’s fifth feature serves up enough shards of humor and visual distractions to keep small-fry happy. Its heroine may suffer from short-term memory loss, but viewers with any memory at all will realize that Finding Doryfalls rather short of its wondrous progenitor.
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