7/12/2023 0 Comments Findy dory ending post creditsIn a film aimed largely at kids, softly giving us a lesson on how individuals with disabilities can become valuable members of any team (as well as good friends), there’s something lurking mostly in the background aimed at the grown-ups. Pixar is smarter and more subtle than that. There’s no Cap’n Awful and his nasty trawling web catching dolphins or anything. In fact, most of the humans we do see are just regular folk and some even do-gooders running an aquarium that’s half-exhibit, half-hospital for oceangoing wildlife. ![]() Finding Dory isn’t about evil humans who stole her away for some horrible research experiment, precipitating her short-term memory loss. “OK, I’m ready,” he said after a heartbeat. No, we were sitting in the theater through every single credit because we, like other Pixar fans, are hip to the game: there’s almost always some kind of final bit of animation, some better than others, after the credits run. Along with the usual kids and parents, of course. We were alone in the theater not because no one had come to see the movie – the showing was packed with every kind of Brooklynite you could imagine, including the muumuu-wearing older woman behind me who made a phone call and chatted happily in Russian during the movie for several minutes, and the adult couple who showed up seconds before the previews began and sat next to us: She in straightened blonde hair, he all bulked-up and muscled out. I then said, “When you’re ready, I’ll tell you who the villain is in the film.” Finding Dory is the same kind of gentle storytelling. A misguided child, but no real “bad guy.” Stuff happens, Nemo is taken, he has to be found. Finding Nemo, you know, has no real villain. “You’re thinking: There’s no villain in this film,” I said. “What’s that?” Maury’s an animation fan he and Vicki have been going to Pixar movies as close to the opening weekends as possible since long before I met him. I was sitting with my husband Maury and our friend Vicki in a recently-emptied movie theater this afternoon, waiting for the final credits to run on Finding Dory, when I leaned over and said to him, “I know what you’re thinking.” ![]() But seriously: what kind of surprises are you expecting to find in a Pixar film, anyway? No, I am not revealing any significant plot points. Note: Yes, we are talking about Finding Dory.
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