{"id":4669,"date":"2016-08-19T11:08:15","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T16:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=4669"},"modified":"2016-08-19T11:08:15","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T16:08:15","slug":"current-movie-reviews-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/08\/19\/current-movie-reviews-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the past several days I’ve been trying to write a review of Finding Dory<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (2016), the long-awaited sequel to the Disney<\/strong><\/em> classic Finding Nemo<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (2003) and have been failing. What’s bugging me the most is this: three quarters of the way through this visually excellent movie I found myself thinking …<\/p>\n

My God! These fish have stereoscopic vision!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As if this is important in an animated movie about sentient sea-life.<\/p>\n

\"Paletten-Doktorfisch<\/p>\n

Yet here’s a picture of Dory’s real world counterpart, a regal tang<\/a>. <\/b>It might have limited stereoscopic vision, or more accurately binocular vision<\/a>1<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

So the real point is that I was not captivated by this movie. This is despite the usual high Disney standards in animation and voice talent; there’s little to fault in these areas. I believe there are two problems with this movie.<\/p>\n

First, and unavoidable, is the lack of novelty. We’ve been here before, we know the feel and the rules of the place. Indeed, we’ve lost the sharks, who certainly added a lot to the first movie through the injection of human concepts into the fish-realm, and how sometimes human concepts are either ridiculous or, more rarely, transcendent. And in terms of the landscape and the supporting characters, little is added.<\/p>\n

Second, the story does not really result in growth for any of the characters. In Finding Nemo<\/strong><\/em>, both little Nemo and his father, Marlin, learn and grow emotionally during the movie. I don’t see the same happening in Finding Dory<\/strong><\/em>. As a fish with short term memory loss, Dory has a hard time learning anything; the best that can really be said is that her recall of important facts are beneficial, that we really shouldn’t forget. As a lesson, it’s not really forceful.<\/p>\n

There are other characters, of course, such as Hank the octopus, but while an argument can be made that each faces a challenge and overcomes it, none of them are nearly so compelling as those of the first film.<\/p>\n

For me, at least, out of context this is a fine movie; but in the context of its predecessor, it suffers. It simply is not as captivating.<\/p>\n

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1<\/sup>It’s also bugging me that I can’t find an antonym for binocular vision. Oh, now that I have the right term it’s obvious: monocular vision<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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