8.10.16

I’m late to the party, but Finding Dory was pretty awesome. Up here in Maine, movies are a little slower to both enter and leave theatres, so we were able to catch it.

Like every Pixar film, there was a short at the beginning of the movie. It was of course animated, but it was shot like a nature/animal documentary. So much so, that at some points you forget that it’s an animation. The focus changes and shifts to focus on the moving animal, the camera zooms are harsh, and the depth of field so shallow the eyes of the bird (the main character) shift in and out of focus as he turns. It was the best short I’ve ever seen. I would have paid 10 bucks just to see that.

As for the main movie, it was a spectacle. To think 13 years ago, I was experiencing Finding Nemo as a 7 year old is quite odd. It was familiar yet surprisingly new. Same music, same characters, same setting; even a familiar plot… but it was just shinier and brighter. Everything felt squeaky clean and more fluent. The seaweed was more lifelike, the animals were more lifelike, and the water… OMG the water!! It was more beautiful than real life! The movie told a great story, the characters were just like where we left them, and the music (my own favorite part) made me swell up and smile.