Sometimes it can be hard to catch a film's prevailing message. As Marlin's new pal—a delightfully plucky, yet, very forgetful blue tang named Dory, played by Ellen DeGeneres—put it, "When life gets ...

At the beginning of 2003's Finding Nemo, Mr. Ray's class swims through some 12,996 corals, all of which were individually animated. "I said, 'Now, wait a minute: You're telling me you want this fish ...