Finding Dory (2016)

Most people think so. 80% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 86%.

Dory is reunited with her friends Nemo and Marlin in the search for answers about her past. What can she remember? Who are her parents? And where did she learn to speak Whale? Wikipedia ↗

Finding Dory is a 2016 American animated film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and directed by Andrew Stanton. Dory's journey takes her, along with Marlin and Nemo, to the Marine Life Institute in Morro Bay, California, where she navigates a series of increasingly complex escape-room-like challenges with the help of Hank, a cantankerous seven-legged septopus voiced by Ed O'Neill who wants Dory's transfer tag to escape to permanent aquarium life in Cleveland. Finding Dory took 13 years to develop after Finding Nemo, a gestation period that allowed Andrew Stanton to craft a story specifically suited to Dory's unique condition rather than simply repeating the original's formula.

The film treated Dory's memory loss with remarkable sensitivity, depicting it as a genuine disability that causes real frustration, fear, and social difficulty while also showing how Dory's different way of experiencing the world gives her unique problem-solving abilities. The Marine Life Institute setting allowed Pixar to create environments never before seen in their films, from touch pools to quarantine tanks to a terrifying open-ocean exhibit.