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** The movie actually shows what he was going to do with it: as the truck leaves, he balls up the tentacle holding the tag and uses his camouflage to make it look like Dory.
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** Maybe it already grew back. He didn't say ''when'' he lost it, did he?
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* Why is Nemo still a child in this film? This film takes place a year later, yet Nemo appears not to have aged much since then. Shouldn't he be full grown (or at least an adolescent) by now? (In that case, it would actually make sense for Alexander Gould to reprise the role.) Or do clownfish really age that slowly?

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* Why is Nemo still a child in this film? This film takes place a year later, yet Nemo appears not to have aged much since then. Shouldn't he be full grown (or at least an adolescent) by now? (In that case, it would actually make sense for Alexander Gould to reprise the role.) Or do clownfish really age that slowly?slowly?
** It does take clownfish a couple of years to reach maturity in real life (though Nemo would have at least gotten visibly bigger), but Marlin's "We'll start school in a year or two" comment in the first film implies that fish in this universe age at a similar rate to humans, since in a year or two in real life Nemo would be fully grown.
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** She probably doesn't actually believe that but was just trying to cheer Hank up.
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*** My guess is that he recently lost it when he accidentally turned on the grinder instead of the light near the beginning of the movie.
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** It could also be possible that TheStinger in the first film actually takes place several months after the rest of the film.
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* Why is Nemo still a child in this film? This film takes place a year later, yet Nemo appears not to have aged much since then. Shouldn't he be full grown (or at least an adolescent) by now? (In that case, it would actually make since for Alexander Gould to reprise the role.) Or do clownfish really age that slowly?

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* Why is Nemo still a child in this film? This film takes place a year later, yet Nemo appears not to have aged much since then. Shouldn't he be full grown (or at least an adolescent) by now? (In that case, it would actually make since sense for Alexander Gould to reprise the role.) Or do clownfish really age that slowly?
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* When Dory, Marlin, and Nemo reach the Quarantine area, they come through the "Seawater Supply" pipe. You can hear the water gushing through the pipe as they swim along. When they reach the right spot, they drop down from the supply line through a downward-facing feeder pipe and into the tank. How? If the feeder pipe is open, water should be gushing out of it from above. What's causing the water to defy gravity and flow along in the pipe without draining through the feeder pipe? If there's hidden a valve keeping it closed, how do Dory, Marlin and Nemo get through the valve? Even if we imagine they found a miraculous way to quickly open the valve, get through, and shut it again before pouring down into the quarantine area, how is that no water got through the valve? Just Dory, Marlin and Nemo, and air.

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* When Dory, Marlin, and Nemo reach the Quarantine area, they come through the "Seawater Supply" pipe. You can hear the water gushing through the pipe as they swim along. When they reach the right spot, they drop down from the supply line through a downward-facing feeder pipe and into the tank. How? If the feeder pipe is open, water should be gushing out of it from above. What's causing the water to defy gravity and flow along in the pipe without draining through the feeder pipe? If there's hidden a valve keeping it closed, how do Dory, Marlin and Nemo get through the valve? Even if we imagine they found a miraculous way to quickly open the valve, get through, and shut it again before pouring down into the quarantine area, how is that no water got through the valve? Just Dory, Marlin and Nemo, and air.air.
* Why is Nemo still a child in this film? This film takes place a year later, yet Nemo appears not to have aged much since then. Shouldn't he be full grown (or at least an adolescent) by now? (In that case, it would actually make since for Alexander Gould to reprise the role.) Or do clownfish really age that slowly?
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*** Firstly, eww implying those two substances are the same. Secondly, that's not true either.

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* This might not be the right place to put it, but I'm very curious. Why does everyone, for lack of a better term, hate this movie? At first I sort of saw why people might complain, as it wasn't set in the ocean and was missing a few characters from the first movie. But after watching it several times I realized these were really trivial things to complain about, and that this is a ''beautiful, amazing'' film. As a huge Dory fan it quickly became my favorite film of all time. And yet...in barely a year it's seemed to become DeaderThanDisco. Hardly anyone talks about it anymore (whereas it seems everyone is ''still'' gushing about ''Inside Out''). It saddens me a great deal that it doesn't get the love it clearly deserves.
** From what I can tell, the general opinion on it seems to be that it's "okay...Maybe good, but not exactly great. I don't know where you're getting the idea that people hate it, and your statement that it's a "beautiful, amazing film" is your opinion, which your entitled to. Personally, I tend to dislike it less for the reasons you have listed and more for it being too preachy with its message and because the ending wasn't really what I was hoping or expecting to see. I actually thought the characters (the new ones, at least) and setting were both perfectly fine. But this is hardly the right place to discuss why we like or dislike films.


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** Wasn't one of the reasons Destiny decided to leave her enclosure that there aren't any walls for her to worry about bumping into in the ocean? Would she still need a seeing-eye beluga now that she's free?
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** If you look closely while [[spoiler:the truck is falling backwards off the cliff, there's one shot where you can see the back door's locks open. They unlock because of the gravity pull from being flung forward in that upside down position.]]

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** If you look closely while [[spoiler:the truck is falling backwards off the cliff, there's one shot where you can see the back door's locks open. They unlock because of the gravity pull from being flung forward in that upside down position.]]]]
*** They're in free-fall. Gravity would have no effect.
* When Dory, Marlin, and Nemo reach the Quarantine area, they come through the "Seawater Supply" pipe. You can hear the water gushing through the pipe as they swim along. When they reach the right spot, they drop down from the supply line through a downward-facing feeder pipe and into the tank. How? If the feeder pipe is open, water should be gushing out of it from above. What's causing the water to defy gravity and flow along in the pipe without draining through the feeder pipe? If there's hidden a valve keeping it closed, how do Dory, Marlin and Nemo get through the valve? Even if we imagine they found a miraculous way to quickly open the valve, get through, and shut it again before pouring down into the quarantine area, how is that no water got through the valve? Just Dory, Marlin and Nemo, and air.
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** From what I can tell, the general opinion on it seems to be that it's "okay...Maybe good, but not exactly great. I don't know where you're getting the idea that people hate it, and your statement that it's a "beautiful, amazing film" is your opinion, which your entitled to. Personally, I tend to dislike it less for the reasons you have listed and more for it being too preachy with its message and because the ending wasn't really what I was hoping or expecting to see. I actually thought the characters (the new ones, at least) and setting were both perfectly fine. But this is hardly the right place to discuss why we like or dislike films.

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** From what I can tell, the general opinion on it seems to be that it's "okay...Maybe good, but not exactly great. I don't know where you're getting the idea that people hate it, and your statement that it's a "beautiful, amazing film" is your opinion, which your entitled to. Personally, I tend to dislike it less for the reasons you have listed and more for it being too preachy with its message and because the ending wasn't really what I was hoping or expecting to see. I actually thought the characters (the new ones, at least) and setting were both perfectly fine. But this is hardly the right place to discuss why we like or dislike films.films.

* If Destiny and Bailey do stay together so Bailey can be Destiny's eyes, one of them is going to be very uncomfortable. Whale sharks are warm-water animals with a range bracketing the equator, while Beluga whales are a deeply Arctic species, with a range barely extending South of the Aleutian islands.
** Well, it's a world where sharks can overcome their fish-eating instincts, so I guess they could be fine.
** Possibly they could find a spot where the water is warm at the surface but frigid lower down. Bailey could take a quick look-around for Destiny each time he surfaces to breathe, then dive down to where he's comfortable.
*** Then he'd have to deal with the additional water pressure that deep down.
* Destiny thinks she's a whale, but she's actually a whale ''shark''. Exactly what caused her to think she's a whale or even learn to speak their language? Was she raised by whales? Did her life next to Bailey cause her to assume she was a whale as well? Wouldn't she suspect something considering she can breathe underwater, has gills, and lacks a blowhole?
** Possibly baleen whales consider whale and basking sharks to be "honorary whales" due to similarity in diet, and are friendly enough to them that the sharks bring their offspring up to be bilingual.
* We see characters from previous films in cameo appearances including Crush, Squirt, Mr. Ray, the seagulls, and [[spoiler:The Tank Gang]]. But, not once do the shark trio (Bruce, Chum, and Anchor) ever appear. Sure, we know they're still alive at the end of Finding Nemo. And, they are briefly mentioned when Marlin recaps his adventures. But, they don't show up. What gives? Were the actors not available to reprise their roles? Did the makers think Destiny would be better off as the only shark in the film?
** Their absence is a bit shocking as well. There is a missed funny opportunity to have Bruce and co. at the end of the film [[spoiler:lecture Destiny and Bailey on the perks of vegetarianism once everyone is in the ocean. Real life whale sharks and belugas eat fish when given the chance]]. The movie even acknowledges this when [[spoiler: Dory sneaks into Destiny's tank through the bucket of dead fish. Unless the idea is that Destiny and Bailey still eat fish once in the ocean, just not Dory and her friends ...]]
** It could be as simple as the shark-trio having left the area. Many sharks are migratory, like Mr. Ray.
** While it's not terribly odd that they don't reappear, the way they're referred to raises a few questions. Marlin tries to claim that there were four of them... but the end of the first film showed that Dory attends their weekly meetings. Does that not go on anymore? And why would Marlin try to make the situation sound scarier than it was when Nemo must know that the sharks turned out to be friendly? Later in the film, during Marlin's tender moment with Dory, he mentions that without her he'd never know he could outsmart sharks. Outsmart? That doesn't sound like what happened. It's as if this film forgot that the sharks were actually benevolent.
*** They "outsmarted" Bruce when he was in his blood-drunk fugue, deploying the torpedo from the submarine into his mouth to wedge his jaws apart so that they could escape. Also remember that it was ''Dory's'' idea to do that, however impulsively, so Marlin's words still hold true. As for Marlin exaggerating the details of his encounter with the sharks to Nemo, maybe it's his version of a "big fish" story?
* Okay, how did that truck's back door open at the end?
** If you look closely while [[spoiler:the truck is falling backwards off the cliff, there's one shot where you can see the back door's locks open. They unlock because of the gravity pull from being flung forward in that upside down position.]]
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**I like to think [[spoiler: the bags they were in]] weren't the same as from the first film. Maybe [[spoiler: the Tank Gang actually got out of their original bags]] sometime before this film and were later [[spoiler: placed in other bags by someone else. That would certainly explain how they managed to survive the whole time. Although the fact that the bags are covered in algae does suggest that they must have been inside for quite some time.]]
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** I understand where you're coming from, but I still don't see it as "wrong" for him to want that kind of life, even if nurturing his relationship with Dory and the others could lead to him being just as happy as he might've been somewhere on land. There's nothing wrong with being a loner, and at the very least, Dory's speech should've come off more as her trying to coax him into coming with her rather than just demanding that he do so like she did in the film. (Also, Hank seemed pretty personable, if a bit pushy, when Dory first met him - he really only started getting cranky when she started dragging him along on her "adventure" to find her parents - and that's not exactly too unreasonable a reaction for anyone to have, under those circumstances.)
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* This might not be the right place to put it, but I'm very curious. Why does everyone, for lack of a better term, hate this movie? At first I sort of saw why people might complain, as it wasn't set in the ocean and was missing a few characters from the first movie. But after watching it several times I realized these were really trivial things to complain about, and that this is a ''beautiful, amazing'' film. As a huge Dory fan it quickly became my favorite film of all time. And yet...in barely a year it's seemed to become DeaderThanDisco. Hardly anyone talks about it anymore (whereas it seems everyone is ''still'' gushing about ''Inside Out''). It saddens me a great deal that it doesn't get the love it clearly deserves.

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* This might not be the right place to put it, but I'm very curious. Why does everyone, for lack of a better term, hate this movie? At first I sort of saw why people might complain, as it wasn't set in the ocean and was missing a few characters from the first movie. But after watching it several times I realized these were really trivial things to complain about, and that this is a ''beautiful, amazing'' film. As a huge Dory fan it quickly became my favorite film of all time. And yet...in barely a year it's seemed to become DeaderThanDisco. Hardly anyone talks about it anymore (whereas it seems everyone is ''still'' gushing about ''Inside Out''). It saddens me a great deal that it doesn't get the love it clearly deserves.deserves.
** From what I can tell, the general opinion on it seems to be that it's "okay...Maybe good, but not exactly great. I don't know where you're getting the idea that people hate it, and your statement that it's a "beautiful, amazing film" is your opinion, which your entitled to. Personally, I tend to dislike it less for the reasons you have listed and more for it being too preachy with its message and because the ending wasn't really what I was hoping or expecting to see. I actually thought the characters (the new ones, at least) and setting were both perfectly fine. But this is hardly the right place to discuss why we like or dislike films.
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*** Just nitpicking to point out that ''Film/{{Memento}}'' didn't take the "exact time period" approach either, and in fact it was itself praised by the scientific community for "one of the most realistic and accurate depictions of anterograde amnesia in the history of motion pictures."

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** It's not that it's a bad thing for him to want, but that he wants it for bad reasons and it's not going to help him. He doesn't just want a safe, simple life; he wants to be cut off from everyone, forever, because he's so traumatized and cynical that he has trouble bonding with others and is scared of anything less secure than a tank. Feeding his avoidant behaviour isn't going to make him happier or healthier.



*** Maybe she didn't learn by instinct. We don't know what she saw during the years she was by herself. And even if it was instinct, why would that preclude teaching someone about it?

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*** Maybe she didn't learn by instinct. We don't know what she saw during the years she was by herself. And even if it was fish eventually learn by instinct, why would that preclude teaching someone them about it?it prior to that? Humans eventually figure out sex if you give them long enough, but we still strive to inform them about it.
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*** Maybe she didn't learn by instinct. We don't know what she saw during the years she was by herself. And even if it was instinct, why would that preclude teaching someone about it?
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*** Destiny spoke whale to Dory completely unprompted before she recognized her, suggesting that she does use it at least sometimes.

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*** Then how come none of the main characters never saw any of them? I mean, you'd think with all their travels through the center that they'd recognize at least 1 fish or shrimp from the incident with Nigel and vice versa.

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*** Then how come none of the main characters never saw any of them? I mean, you'd think with all their travels through the center that they'd recognize at least 1 fish or shrimp from the incident with Nigel and vice versa.come across them.



** Cartoon logic. [[spoiler: Did we ever see Marlin and Dory eating while they crossed the EAC? How does an Octopus survive out of water for extended periods of time?]] If real world rules aren't essential to a joke or a plot, then they're conveniently shoved aside. Hence how [[spoiler: small fish take a year to get to America from Sydney in plastic bags and never starve or kill themselves in the process.]]

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** Cartoon logic. [[spoiler: Did we ever see Marlin and Dory eating while they crossed the EAC? How does an Octopus survive out of water for extended periods of time?]] If real world rules aren't essential to a joke or a plot, then they're conveniently shoved aside. Hence how [[spoiler: small fish take a year to get to America from Sydney in plastic bags and never starve or kill themselves in the process.]]



*** He explicitly says he lost it ''because'' of Dory, so the in-sink disposal is the most consistent explanation.
*** His exact line is: "I'm not losing another tentacle because of you!", which is ambiguous but could just mean he lost a tentacle in the past and doesn't view it worth it to lose another for her sake, not because she caused it.
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** Maybe he just likes teaching?

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** Maybe he just likes teaching?teaching?
* This might not be the right place to put it, but I'm very curious. Why does everyone, for lack of a better term, hate this movie? At first I sort of saw why people might complain, as it wasn't set in the ocean and was missing a few characters from the first movie. But after watching it several times I realized these were really trivial things to complain about, and that this is a ''beautiful, amazing'' film. As a huge Dory fan it quickly became my favorite film of all time. And yet...in barely a year it's seemed to become DeaderThanDisco. Hardly anyone talks about it anymore (whereas it seems everyone is ''still'' gushing about ''Inside Out''). It saddens me a great deal that it doesn't get the love it clearly deserves.
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*** Speaking of pipes, why are the bars on the pipes wide enough for fish to fit through? You'd think that the MLI wouldn't want fish escaping their tanks and potentially ending up in unsuitable habitats without a food source or encountering predators.



* Why in the world would Mr. Ray have any incentive to devoting his time to teaching other fish at school?

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* Why in the world would Mr. Ray have any incentive to devoting his time to teaching other fish at school?school?
** Maybe he just likes teaching?
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*** But then why did she try to teach the class about it?
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** Also keep in mind that the films never take the ''Film/{{Memento}}'' or ''Film/FiftyFirstDates'' approach of acting as if an ''exact'' time period passes before Dory loses her short-term memory. What she forgets and when is entirely random, [[AccidentallyAccurate which experts say is the most accurate depiction of memory loss ever committed to film]]. It's entirely in-character and realistic for her to keep her focus all the way to 30 on some occasions but to lose track at 4 on others.

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** Also keep in mind that the films never take the ''Film/{{Memento}}'' or ''Film/FiftyFirstDates'' approach of acting as if an ''exact'' time period passes before Dory loses her short-term memory. What she forgets and when is entirely random, [[AccidentallyAccurate [[AccidentallyCorrectWriting which experts say is the most accurate depiction of memory loss ever committed to film]]. It's entirely in-character and realistic for her to keep her focus all the way to 30 on some occasions but to lose track at 4 on others.
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** They are likely well fed, so wouldn't think about eating at that moment. As for the Loon, I'm not sure she's aware enough to realise she could eat them, plus Marlin imprinted on her.

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** They are likely well fed, so wouldn't think about eating at that moment. As for the Loon, I'm not sure she's aware enough to realise she could eat them, plus Marlin imprinted on her.her.
* Why in the world would Mr. Ray have any incentive to devoting his time to teaching other fish at school?
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** Organisms reproduce by instinct; She would've figured it out on her own at some point. If human reproduction wasn't so intertwined with economics, parentage, and morality, we wouldn't have to explain it to our kids, either, they'd just hit puberty and do it on their own (wouldn't stop them from asking, but they'd get it eventually). Apparently ocean society has evolved to the point that most ocean parents would give their kids TheTalk, too, or that "that class" would be a part of the curriculum at fish school (though maybe when they're older).

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** Organisms reproduce by instinct; She would've figured it out on her own at some point. If human reproduction wasn't so intertwined with economics, parentage, and morality, we wouldn't have to explain it to our kids, either, they'd just hit puberty and do it on their own (wouldn't stop them from asking, but they'd get it eventually). Apparently ocean society has evolved to the point that most ocean parents would give their kids TheTalk, too, or that "that class" would be a part of the curriculum at fish school (though maybe when they're older).

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