Of course, visit the official FINDING DORY website and also: I stayed there back in 2010 thanks to a contest win and it was remarkable! Make sure you’re following me on the following social media channels next week for live coverage: To top off this cool trip, we’ll be staying overnight at InterContinental The Clement Monterey overlooking the water on Cannery Row. We love Modern Family as a family and we love when our favorite actors jump into blockbuster movies to voice animated characters! Also voicing characters in the movie, Eugene Levy and Diane Keaton, can you guess who they may be?Ĭheck out the exclusive new trailer just released today on the Ellen DeGeneres show! The addition of the voices of Ty Burrell and Ed O’Neill have me even more excited than before. She arrives at the ‘Monterey Marine Life Institute’ where she meets Bailey (Ty Burrell, Modern Family), a white beluga whale Destiny (Kaitlin Olsen, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia), a whale shark and Hank the octopus (Ed O’Neill, Modern Family & Married…With Children), who becomes her guide. What can she remember? Who are her parents? And where did she learn to speak Whale? How does the Aquarium fit into the picture? Dory (voiced by the amazing Ellen DeGeneres) suddenly recalls her childhood memories and remembers something about Monterey, California, so accompanied by Nemo and Marlin (Albert Brooks) she sets out to find her family. We will be screening some select footage of the film, taking a VIP tour behind the scenes of the Monterey Bay Aquarium, and interviewing a ton of amazing filmmakers and animators including 2-time Oscar winning Director Andrew Stanton.ĭisney Pixar’s upcoming blockbuster Finding Dory leaves off six months after the story line of Finding Nemo reuniting everyone’s favorite forgetful blue tang, Dory, with her friends Nemo and Marlin on a search for answers about her past. Practically in my back yard, we’ll be doing some amazing stuff in Monterey Monday, March 7 and Tuesday, March 8th so you’ll have to follow along with the hashtag #FindingDoryEvent on social media.
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Coming full circle as a blogger, I’m heading back to Monterey next week for more amazing memories on the Finding Dory Event press trip that I accepted without a second thought! Then when my children were born, I became a parent chaperone on those same classroom trips. When I became an elementary school teacher, our proximity to the Aquarium made it an annual field trip spot to bring students at the first grade level. Other trips found us on Fisherman’s Wharf sampling delicious seafood cuisine, and more recently to Cannery Row for shopping, oceanfront walking/biking paths, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium. My dad was a fisherman by hobby and loved to take us to Moss Landing, Monterey, Pacific Grove, and Carmel where we’d find fishing holes for me to test out my casting skills and attempt a catch. The Oscar®-winning underwater adventure with Marlin, new friend Dory and his son Nemo is available for first time ever in high-definition Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D and Digital platforms.I have such fond memories of the Monterey Bay area that dates back to the 1970’s. Pixar’s “Finding Nemo” is back on Blu-rayTM.It is hard, but sometimes you just have to trust that nothing bad is going to happen.Īnother favorite is the “Fish are Friends (not food)” scene with the sharks. While I have so many favorite scenes from the movie, one has always been Dory speaking whale and her advice to Marlin about letting go. How often do we consider what it would be like to be a little fish in the big ocean? Or a little fish in a fish tank?Ĭombine that with Ellen DeGeneres’ scene stealing, forgetful fish Dory and it is hard to not love this movie. There is just something about this heartwarming tale that has always resonated with our family, not to mention the bright colors and interesting point of view. One of our very favorite family films has always been Finding Nemo. It is important to us to have plenty of family friendly options that we all can enjoy together. Flash forward to the present and we have built up quite the collection. We had almost nothing for them to watch in terms of children’s movies. I remember a decade ago when my niece and nephew would visit our house before we had kids.