Finding Marlin

Finding Marlin, known in some territories as Finding Nemo 3, is a 2023 American 3D computer-animated comedy adventure drama film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Directed and co-written by Andrew Stanton with co-direction by Angus MacLane, the screenplay was co-written by Victoria Strouse and Stanton. The film is a sequel to 2016's Finding Dory, and the 3rd installment of the Finding Nemo franchise.

When Marlin has a nightmare about losing his wife Coral, he begins his journey to find his wife Coral at New Zealand. At New Zealand, he and a new piranha friend get taken to an aquarium, and Nemo and Dory must rescue them. With help from a human teenager, Marlin continues his quest to find Coral.

There are 5 Finding Nemo shorts found in the DVD.

Premise
Marlin is a clown fish who lives in the Great Barrier Reef. When Marlin has a nightmare about losing his wife Coral and their eggs to the barracuda, he, with the help of Nemo and Dory, embarks on an epic adventure to find Coral. His journey brings him to New Zealand, where he and a new piranha friend are taken to an aquarium. With the help of a human teenager, Marlin travels across the aquarium to rescue Coral from captivity.

Plot
The film begins with Marlin having a nightmare about losing Coral and their eggs to the barracuda. He wakes up, screaming in fear, and he wakes up Nemo and Dory in the process. Nemo and Dory tell him what's wrong, and Marlin says nothing, telling them to go back to sleep. Marlin then sits on a rock, thinking about his wife Coral.

The following morning, Marlin, Nemo, and Dory go visit a busier part of the Great Barrier Reef, where they see lots of reef homes. Soon, they find some coral, and Marlin tells Nemo and Dory that the coral reminds him about Coral. Then, Nemo goes by himself to look at the reef, but he finds a dead area of coral, and tells Marlin and Dory about it, and then the two adults are worried, but a bureaucratic fish named Paul tells everyone that there's nothing wrong with the dying coral. Marlin then finds clues that Coral used to leave him when she was alive on the sea bed, and tells Nemo and Dory about these clues.

When they go back home, Marlin keeps finding clues, and later that night, he goes out to follow them, while Nemo and Dory catch up and they all head to New Zealand. During their quest, Nemo falls asleep, and then the trio run into Bruce, Anchor, and Chum, who are now fully vegetarian. Marlin explains to the sharks about his quest to find Coral, so the sharks give Marlin, Nemo, and Dory a lift to New Zealand. A few hours later, the sharks drop off Marlin, Nemo, and Dory at a cave, where the trio sleeps for the night.

The next morning, the trio continues their quest, but they run into Gill and the Tank Gang, who escaped from the Marine Life Institute. Nemo is glad to see the Tank Gang again. Marlin, Nemo, Dory, and the Tank Gang must pass a bunch of electric eels, otherwise they would most likely be electrocuted. They swim past the eels, but Dory bumps into one of the eels, attracting every single eel in the area, pursuing Marlin, Nemo, Dory, and the Tank Gang. They managed to survive the eel swarm, then Marlin runs into a piranha named Spike (maybe Spike could have once been a pet piranha, because we don't have native piranhas in New Zealand.), who joins him on his journey to find Coral. However, the heroes make it to New Zealand, where Marlin and Spike both get caught in a fishing boat, but are rescued by the workers of an aquarium, then Marlin and Spike get put in a cooler in a truck, and it heads for the New Zealand aquarium. (Maybe as our heroes are arriving in New Zealand waters they see the reefs are dying there too.)

Nemo, Dory, and the Tank Gang make a plan to find Marlin and the piranha, then Gill explains that rivers also lead to the ocean, so the heroes start a new adventure to find Marlin and the piranha. Eventually, they find a river, where a bunch of blue penguins guide them to their leader, Lincoln, a blue tang, which Dory falls in love with. Nemo asks Lincoln to help him find Marlin, so he and his penguin flock decide to help Nemo and his friends find Marlin.

Meanwhile, Marlin and Spike are put in a tank, where Marlin gets his tag. Then, the twosome meet a native teenager named Boris (Okay, I know he's not Maori but I would still recommend you change his name, because to me Boris doesn't sound like a very New Zealand name. Maybe something like Mason, which was the 5th most popular name in New Zealand last year. You can find more suggestions at this list here: 

☀https://www.govt.nz/browse/family-and-whanau/having-a-baby/top-100-baby-names-in-new-zealand/) , who can communicate with animals. He helps Marlin on his quest to find Coral, but the human teenager explains to Marlin about the tag. He puts Marlin and Spike in a fish bowl, and holds the bowl during the quest.

Later, Marlin and Spike are separated from Boris (How?), and the two fish are sent to an exhibit containing a bottlenose dolphin named Flipper, who meets Marlin and Spike. Flipper has an friendly neighbor, a narwhal named Arnold, who meets Marlin and Spike. Marlin explains to Flipper and Arnold about his quest to find Coral, then the four go up to the surface of the water, where Boris shows up, and Marlin tells Flipper and Arnold about the human who's helping him find Coral. He and Spike get in the bucket, and the trio continue their quest to find Coral. Among the way, Marlin keeps finding clues, leading one step closer to Coral. (Maybe at some point they overhear scientists talking about the dying coral reefs?)

Meanwhile, the barracuda and his pack of barracudas (is this too close to the sabre pack in Ice Age? Also barracudas are solitary fish) have to find their lieutenant (spy?), Spike, at the aquarium, so they swim to the other side to New Zealand. Back with Nemo, Lincoln introduces Nemo, Dory, and the Tank Gang to his servant, a kiwi named George. Nemo explains to George about his journey to find Marlin at the aquarium, so he puts Nemo, Dory, the Tank Gang, and Lincoln in a fish tank. Gill then notices a Pizza Planet delivery truck and tells Nemo, Dory, Lincoln, and the rest of the Tank Gang about a plan to rescue Marlin: First, they would wait for humans to put them in the truck, then Jacques would do the steering wheel, while Peach  does the GPS, and George the kiwi does the brakes. Then, two humans arrive and put the fish tank at the back of the truck, and Jacques, Peach, and George drive perfectly so that the fish tank won't break. (this could be a bit far fetched - maybe the NZ teen who can talk to animals drives and the fish give him suggestions? By the way, its okay if your idea is a little bit close to my Ice Age: Thawed Out idea, I'm giving you permission to use a few scenes that are similar - like this one which is similar to when my character Shadi drives the Herd in a truck out of Seattle)

Marlin, Spike, and Boris pass a lot of exhibits, and they eventually make to their destination, the Coral Reef exhibit, where Boris gives Marlin something to remember him, and they part ways, and Boris drops Marlin and Spike into a tank. Marlin, however, finds Coral, who is glad to see Marlin again. He tells Coral about his tales from Finding Nemo, while Spike sees two of his pack mates, who have made it to the aquarium. The two barracudas pass a message from their leader, and Spike explains about Marlin and Coral, promising to bring the two clownfish to the barracuda, then the barracudas go back to the ocean. (Spike passes a message through plankton to the barracuda?)

While driving the Pizza Planet truck to the New Zealand aquarium, the heroes are being chased by the police. Gill then sees a freeway exit and tells Jacques to go to the freeway exit and make it to the New Zealand aquarium, where they are surrounded by the police, but Nigel the pelican and his pelican friends rescue Nemo and his friends from the police, and they go inside the New Zealand aquarium. Back at the Coral Reef exhibit, Marlin tells Coral about the tales from Finding Dory. Coral is impressed about the tales Marlin tells, and comments on how sweet those stories are. Marlin comments that Nemo and Dory would try to find him. Then, he tells Coral about his mollusk joke from Finding Nemo, which impresses her. But then, Nigel and the pelicans arrive with Nemo and his friends, and they rescue Marlin, Spike, and Coral from the aquarium. Then, the people call the police to try to stop Nigel and the pelicans. (It would probably be the SPCA or DoC or some animal society.We care about animals in New Zealand so we would probably try to capture them to take care of them and then release them back near Australia)

The heroes try to escape from the police, but a cop throws a rock at Nigel's left wing, injuring him. (Maybe not a cop, maybe it could be a bullying teenager? Maybe the bullying teenager is enemies with Boris?) Boris then rescues Marlin, Nemo, Dory, and the gang and puts them in a fish tank which is in a shopping cart, but he runs into his parents, who are disappointed in him for leaving them without their permission and threaten to ground him, but Boris explains to his parents about Marlin and his friends, so they work together and put the fish tank in the back of their car. While trying to escape from the police, Boris tells the directions to his parents in order to get Marlin and his friends back into the ocean. But then, the police surrounds them, and try to arrest Boris, but he explains to the police about Marlin and his friends. After Boris explains to the police, they apologize to him about the misunderstanding, then the police leaves. When they make it to the ocean, Boris releases the heroes to the ocean, and says farewell to Marlin and his friends. Meanwhile, Nigel and the pelicans are rescued by humans. (Maybe there could be a human villain, an oil giant trying to drill for oil in NZ waters, who doesn't care about the reefs and when he hears about Boris he tries to stop him with his own guards. But around this point in the plot he is defeated, the police and the Prime Minister kick him out of the country and create a new law banning oil drilling in New Zealand Waters and protecting all sea life around New Zealand.)

Meanwhile, the other barracudas tell their leader about Marlin and Coral, and they plot to eat them. When the heroes go back to the ocean, they travel, but Spike, feeling remorse for betraying Marlin's trust, confesses his plans to Marlin, which angers the clownfish. Marlin and Spike end up in an argument, but Dory stops them from arguing. Spike has a change of heart, and agrees to help Marlin escape the pack. (The barracuda hears that Marlin and our heroes have stopped the reefs dying, thus ruining his plan. In anger he sets out to eat them instead)

Leading the pack away from Marlin, who they intended to ambush, Dory swims away with Coral; Meanwhile, Marlin, Nemo, and the others head back to the New Zealand aquarium to get help from Flipper and Arnold, who escape their tanks, leaping over a wall to help the heroes. Dory and Coral, however, catch up with Marlin and his friends, but the barracudas show up, and their leader asks Spike to help him bring the heroes down. Spike refuses and sides with Marlin, making the barracuda furious, and the heroes fight the barracudas. During their fight, the barracuda knocks a sea column on Spike's head, hurting him. The barracuda then corners Marlin, intending to attack him alone, but Marlin and Nemo decide to swim away from him. Then, they spot an underwater volcano, then Nemo remembers the 'Ring of Fire' from the first film and swims in the bubbles safely with Marlin. The barracuda runs into the bubbles and gets burned. Angry and in pain, he blindly crosses the crater just as the eruption starts. Nemo and Marlin yell at him to look out and get out of the crater, but he continues chasing them and gets caught by the full blast of the eruption. Nemo and Marlin then have to escape the underwater lava flows, steam and landslides.

Marlin and Nemo make it out of the volcano alive, but the barracudas find out that their leader is killed by the volcano and flee the scene. Everyone is safe, except for Spike, who is badly injured, and tells Marlin his last words before he dies. Nemo then cries because Spike died, and everyone mourns the death of Spike. Marlin and everyone then head back home to the Great Barrier Reef.

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Cast

 * Albert Brooks as Marlin, an overprotective clownfish, Nemo's father, and Coral's husband.
 * Neel Sethi as Nemo, a young optimistic clownfish, Marlin and Coral's son, and Dory's friend. He was voiced by Hayden Rolence in the previous film. He was also voiced by Alexander Gould in the first movie.
 * Ellen DeGeneres as Dory, a Pacific regal blue tang who suffers from "short-term memory loss", and Lincoln's girlfriend.
 * Elizabeth Perkins as Coral, a female clownfish, Marlin's wife and Nemo's mother.
 * Justin Timberlake as Lincoln, a blue tang and Dory's boyfriend.
 * Hayden Rolence as Boris, a human teenager who can communicate with animals. He helps Marlin on his adventure to find Coral.
 * Williem Dafoe as Gill, the leader of the Tank Gang.
 * Brad Garrett as Bloat, a pufferfish.
 * Allison Janney as Peach, a pink starfish.
 * Austin Pendleton as Gurgle, a royal gramma.
 * Stephen Root as Bubbles, a yellow tang.
 * Vicki Lewis as Deb/Flo, a four-striped damselfish.
 * Jerome Ranft as Jacques, a cleaner shrimp. He was voiced by Joe Ranft, Jerome's late brother, in the first film.
 * Barry Humphries as Bruce, a vegetarian great white shark.
 * Eric Bana as Anchor, a hammerhead shark friends with Bruce.
 * Bruce Spence as Chum, mako shark friends with Bruce and Anchor.
 * Denis Leary as Spike, a piranha and the barracuda's lieutenant. He is a friend of Marlin. He can breathe in the ocean, because his DNA was altered so that he can be the first ocean piranha.
 * David L. Lander as TBA, the barracuda, who is the leader of the barracuda pack. He is the main villain, unlike in Finding Nemo.
 * Bill Hader as Alex, a barracuda, who is a member of the barracuda pack.
 * John Ratzenberger as Beige, a barracuda, who is a member of the barracuda pack.
 * Idris Elba as Oliver, a barracuda, who is a member of the barracuda pack.
 * James S. Baker as Flipper, a common bottlenose dolphin.(Maybe he could be a rare New Zealand dolphin, like a Hectors dolphin or a Maui dolphin?)
 * Chris Parnell as Arnold, a good but funny narwhal. (We don't have narwhals in New Zealand, is there another species he could be?)
 * Torbin Xan Bullock as George, a kiwi.
 * Andrew Stanton as Crush, a 150-year old green sea turtle, and Paul, a bureaucratic fish.
 * Victoria Strouse as Shelly, a green sea turtle and Crush's mate.
 * Anton Starkman as Squirt, a green sea turtle and Crush's son. He was voiced by Bennett Dammann in the previous film. He was also voiced by Nick Bird in the first film.
 * Geoffrey Rush as Nigel, a pelican.

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LEGO Finding Nemo
In summer 2022, LEGO released a Finding Nemo theme, with a couple sets each from the first two movies. The range became very highly popular, prompting an expansion of the range of sets.

Here are a list of sets:

Finding Nemo

 * The Drop-Off
 * Jellyfish Forest
 * Mount Wannahockaloogie
 * Anglerfish Chase
 * Sydney Harbour
 * East Australian Current

Finding Dory

 * The Midnight Zone
 * The Open Ocean Exhibit
 * Touch Pool
 * The Truck

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