While this is touching and shows how much we parents love our children, some children may identify Dory’s parents with their birth parents.
Another character later suggests this as wellin a moment of anger, but Dory challenges this by realizing that it wasn’t her fault-getting caught by the undertow was something out of her control-and that she wouldn’t lose someone she loves on purpose.Īdditionally, at the end of the movie we find out that Dory’s parents have never stopped searching for her. For example, early on Dory believes that because of her short-term memory it was her own fault that she was separated from her parents. The ending, of course, is happy, and Dory is able to piece all parts of her life together, but the feelings of loss, self-blame, and disappointment that Dory experienced may be upsetting for some children. In addition, Marlin and Nemo worry about how their own relationship with Dory could change when she is reunited with her family.
Sprinkled between these funny scenes, however, are more serious moments when Dory struggles with feelings of loss and abandonment, worries about how her parents will receive her if she finds them, and more. Hilarious misadventures ensue, the group gets split up a few times (don’t worry, Nemo and Marlin stick together this time), and many fun new characters are introduced. Her continued searching brings us to back to the present, when she starts to remember her family and sets out on a quest to find them, with Marlin and Nemo in tow. The movie has started out on a quite tragic moment with poignant feelings of loss and abandonment, and we watch as Dory quickly grows up and wanders around the ocean in search of her lost parents, slowly forgetting who she was looking for.
But when Dory accidentally gets swept away by an undertow, we see little Dory lost in an unfamiliar place without her family and unable to remember how to get home. Because of her short term memory loss, Dory’s parents use songs and games to encourage and teach her different ways to remember how to find home if she ever gets lost. They are loving and devoted, and watch over her as she begins to explore her surroundings. In the first few minutes of the movie, we meet baby Dory and her parents. While we think this movie was an overall positive experience, and will be for most adoptees, there are some weaker parts of the story and some tough emotions that may be difficult for some adopted children to watch and understand. In addition to some witty humor, the movie also grappled with more serious themes of loss, abandonment, and self-blame, among others. There were plenty of goofy characters and cute baby animals to keep us laughing through the end. Now that Finding Dory is getting a home video release (digital VOD on October 25th, 2016 and Blu-ray/DVD on November 15th, 2016) we finally get to see this lost storyline.The much-anticipated sequel to Finding Nemo was every bit as exciting, adorable and fun as we hoped it would be. Stanton said the sequences were in the film for "a long time," admitting that they were "seductive, just put it that way." It makes sense that the subplot was removed as it doesn't service the Dory story, but it does feel a little weird that there is so little finding Dory story in a movie titled Finding Dory (and yes, I understand the clever dual meaning of the title).
And hopefully it will show up on the DVD. And we got so much better stuff that worked and made the movie much better. And I had to finally just say you're right. We had a long circuitous route, that's all I'm gonna say, with them that ended up not helping her story at all. So we were like, well, what do we do with them and where do they go? And we had a, I don't wanna give anything away yet, but we had a long, I hope it all comes out on the DVD, 'cause it was really fun. Back in April, at an early press day, director Andrew Stanton told us the following story: For Dory to learn to drive on her own basically they had to be separated.