Finding Marlin

Finding Marlin is a 2023 animated feature film by Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios. It is the 3rd installment of the Finding Nemo Trilogy and a sequel to Finding Dory.

Plot
One night Marlin has a nightmare about loosing his wife Coral and his other 399 eggs and wakes up terrified! He swims up to the surface. He sees a Qantas Bombardier Q400 fly over and he wonders where Coral had gone. The next morning Marlin drops Nemo off at school where Mr Ray has come back from his migration. That afternoon Marlin with the help of Bailey the Beluga White Whale find some clues and then Destiny the Whale Shark spots a current heading straight ahead. Bailey asks a Kingfish where is the current leading to and the Kingfish takes New Zealand for an answer. So Marlin, Nemo, Dory and Bailey with the help of Bruce, Anchor and Chum (who are now 100% vegan) reach Auckland and Kelly Tarltons Aquarium. But Marlin gets seperated from the group and is placed in quarantine and meets Hank's cousin Fred, his shoe, bowtie and tartan clothing wearing Purple Octopus friend Henry and Hank's brother Kyle. They help him get to The Reef exhibit. Along the way Marlin is unexpectedly thrown into a Hector's Dolphin pool! Then Marlin encounters his old friend Flubber! The New Zealand Hector's Dolphin. Also Flubber was sharing a pool with Destiny's sister Paua. Meanwhile Nemo spots some figures ahead which are revealed to be The Tank Gang. Gill tells them that as soon they were freed from their bags and put in quarantine they went into the vent and found a exit into the ocean and escaped! Nemo, Dory and The Tank Gang went through the pipes and found Marlin and Coral. Then they found Dory's boyfriend Washington as well. Then Marlin, Nemo, Dory, Coral, Washington and The Tank Gang escaped Kelly Tarltons with Flubber, Paua, Fred, Henry and Kyle following them. But little did they know that an evil Barracuda called Serpent wanted to finished what he should have done! With the help of Bruce,Anchor and Chum they were off to find Marlin's parents off the coastal areas of Tauranga, New Zealand. Not far from Tauranga Flubber saw an Air New Zealand Bombardier Q300 fly over. So they follow the Plane to the coastal regions. Sure enough they found Marlin's parents! One the way back to the reef Serpent attacked leading to a chase! Eventually the chase led to White Island Whakatane (also known as an angry island) The underwater spots erupted killing Serpent! the eruption bursted out off the water forcing an Air Chathams Dc 3 Dakota to turn back! Back home at the Reef The Tank Gang, Flubber, Paua, Fred, Henry, Kyle, Bruce, Anchor, Chum, Washington and Marlin's Parents make the reef their new home. In a post end credits scene at the surface an Air New Zealand Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner flies over Great Barrier Reef on the way to Perth.

Cast
Albert Brooks as Marlin a Clownfish

Ellen De Generes as Dory a Regal Blue Tang

Hayden Rolence as Nemo a Clownfish

Ty Burell as Bailey a Beluga White Whale

Barry Humphries as Bruce a Great White Shark

Eric Bana as Anchor a Hammerhead Shark

Bruce Spence as Chum a Mako Shark

Willem Dafoe as Gill a Moorish Idol

Brad Garrett as Bloat a Pufferfish

Austin Pendelton as Gurgle a Royal Gramma

Stephen Root as Bubbles a Yellow Tang

Vicki Lewis as Deb/Flo a Damselfish

Alain Chabat as Jacques a Cleaner Shrimp

Elizabeth Perkins as Coral a Clownfish

Bob Peterson as Mr Ray a Eagle Ray

Ed o Neil as Hank a Septopus

Jemaine Clement as Fred an Octopus and Hank's cousin

Paul Paddick as Henry an Octopus

Kaitlin Oslon as Destiny a Whale Shark

Nathan Foley as Flubber a New Zealand Hector's Dolphin and Marlin childhood friend

Kellie Crawford as Paua a Whale Shark and Destiny's sister

Simon Pryce as Scott a Clownfish and Marlin's Father

Emma Watkins as Felicity a Clownfish and Marlin's Mother

Lachlan Gillespie as Serpent a Barracuda and the main antagonist

Anthony Field as Washington a Regal Blue Tang and Dory's boyfriend

Easter Eggs
A113

Pizza Planet Truck

Luxo Ball

Darla poster in quarantine wall

Trivia
A red tractor resembling Massey from The Adventures of Massey Ferguson passes by on the road

This is the 1st time The Wiggles have been in an animated movie

Nathan Foley and Kellie Crawford were 2 of the original members of the Australian kids tv show Hi-5

A Purple Ute resembling Beaut the Ute from The Adventures of Massey Ferguson can be seen on the road