10 Most Over-Rated Movies Of 2016

Coasting on the nostalgia of its decade-old predecessor Finding Nemo, sequel-spinoff Finding Dory ranks as Disney-Pixar’s most successful film of 2016 beating Zootopia to the spot of second highest grossing film of the year by a small $4 million margin. Though it’s beautifully animated and introduces some new characters while shifting the focus to forgetful fish Dory, there’s a glaringly obvious problem with Finding Dory that goes way beyond it feeling kind of like a rehash of its superior forebear.

Many of the movie’s more glowing reviews focus on its pro-disability message and depiction of the realities of living with and raising a child with a condition like Dory’s short-term memory loss. While it’s true that Dory’s difference is celebrated, the way another ‘different’ character is handled is not so positive. Gerald, a sealion with an obvious but undefined developmental disability, is mocked and undermined by other characters and his part in the film played for laughs – and the kind where the audience is laughing at him rather than with him.

It’s a confusing aspect of a movie that on the one hands hammers its pro-difference message home with all the subtlety of a brick to the face, but on the other hand plays other disabilities for laughs. While it’s a fun enough movie for kids and fans of Finding Nemo, it’s supposedly moral lesson is ridiculously hypocritical and for that reason alone Finding Dory deserved a lot more scepticism than praise.