Main article: Exploring the Reef with Jean-Michel CousteauĮxploring the Reef is a short documentary film. I feel like it was just as hard, if not harder, on Finding Dory to get it to feel inevitable and preordained, and that it was always of the larger piece.' Short films Exploring the Reef with Jean-Michel Cousteau (2002) Regardless of how much people may vocalize that they don’t enjoy or wish that there weren’t extensions, sometimes it's really nice to go back and spend more time with these characters if they evolve, if they grow, if they expand. It's a small club when it's done successfully.

And that's really hard, but it's so satisfying for me when I’m experiencing that, whether it's a great second season of a TV show or another book in a series. With any of the other sequels, we strive to try and make it seem like it was inevitable, like it was meant to be, that all these extended stories and journeys with these characters were part of the whole canon. And again, I’m very used to seeing that world continue to open up from the Toy Story movies, so I’ve learned to just say, to my knowledge, I think everything that was born of the first movie is wrapped up. Now, I’ve stopped saying never for anything because there are a lot of new characters that get introduced and we’ve broadened the universe for this movie. 'I really do feel like that this was the missing piece, emotionally, for the first movie. Future films ĭirector Andrew Stanton commented in June 2016 about the possibility of a third Finding Nemo film, stating: It takes place one year after Finding Nemo and is set off the coast of Morro Bay, California.

The film focuses on the amnesiac character Dory, (voiced by Ellen DeGeneres) who travels to California to find her long-lost parents, Jenny and Charlie, as well as exploring the idea of her being reunited with her family.

Finding Dory is the seventeenth Pixar film.

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