sending Marlin on a desperate search for his son, during which he meets Dory (Ellen Degeneres), a regal blue tang with short-term memory loss. Finding Nemo opens with Marlin’s family tragedy ...

It seemed like a risk for Pixar to turn comic relief character Dory from 2003’s endearing Finding Nemo ... since clownfish Marlin (Albert Brooks) was reunited with his son Nemo (Hayden Rolence).