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?
This movie contains 12 potentially triggering events.
As the fish are falling from the truck into the water, one fish eats another fish and then is eaten by a third fish, but both bigger fish end up throwing up/spitting out the ones they’ve eaten. So no fish are actually eaten.
Not really, but fish are held in captivity at a rescue/rehabilitate/release facility. There aren’t really any characters that express feeling trapped or wanting to be free really badly, but they are being kept away from their homes.
Fish are grabbed and squeezed and are shown to be very scared and completely miserable in the touch tank at the aquarium. It’s kind of a disturbing scene because of how freaked out the creatures are and how roughly they’re handled.
Not shown on screen, but it’s mentioned that the octopus Hank is missing a tentacle from an injury, so Dory says he’s not an octopus, but rather a “septopus”, as he has seven tentacles, not eight.
Not intentionally, but the fish in the touch tank are abused by children who are far too rough with them. They’re very miserable and it’s kind of a depressing scene because they’re trapped in there forever.
No, but as a little baby fish Dory accidentally gets separated by her parents after being swept up by a current, and doesn’t find them until several years later (her age is ambiguous, but captive blue tang fish live to be 5-7 years old, so she might be 4 or 5 years old - in human years, for a fish she’s an adult)
Y’all are forgetting that scene towards the end when they’re falling off the bridge in slo mo and some animal (can’t remember what kind) eats a fish or sth and throws it right back up
There’s a fish hospital caring for sick fish, such as this one fish who keeps sneezing. It also quarantines fish who are being relocated or who had just gotten in, to make sure they’re okay and prepared for their new facility.
Hank is very clearly upset about traumatic experiences from when he lived in the touch tank at the aquarium (a tank where people can pet various sea creatures to see what they feel like). I’m not sure if it’s full blown PTSD, but he is definitely worried about going there.
Characters yell at Dory about her short-term memory loss, which is played for drama. Two other animal characters (Becky and Gerald) are portrayed as if they have some mental issues, which are played for laughs.
Early on in the movie Nemo and his friends are at fish school and Dory forgets what they’re talking about for a moment, and when Nemo says they were talking about mommies and daddies Dory misunderstands and assumes he means what happens when “a mommy and daddy fish love each other very much”, before she gets into more detail the teacher stops her. It could be considered a sex joke, but it’s very lighthearted and not explicit at all.
Dory, during the beginning of the movie, as a little baby fish was all alone and wandering about trying to find her parents, and didn’t really have a specific “home”. Fish don’t necessarily have “homes” like people do, but they usually have a favorite cave, coral reef area, or a sea anenome for clownfish.