Disney’s Pixar is a brilliant animation studio that has brought the world joy and nostalgia through their films. There’s always high anticipation when a Pixar film is announced because of the high bar they’ve set, not only with their advanced animation design, but also with the magnificently creative plots, characters, and stories they share. The concepts are genius, I mean – sympathizing with the monsters under your bed in Monsters Inc., or finding out what your toys really are up to when you’re not there in Toy Story – these childhood concepts are brought to life.

Pixar has been on a roll lately, especially with the recent release of Inside Out 2, which follows the new emotions that arise when one gets older, and there’s been discussion about a possible Inside Out 3 already. While that would be a great concept to develop, there are a lot of other Pixar stories that should have another opportunity to shine in the spotlight, especially the older films that are nostalgic but sometimes forgotten about due to their premiere being a long time ago. Before Pixar even considers Inside Out 3, I’d much rather see another Pixar sequel instead.

Finding Nemo 3 Would Complete The Main Characters’ Stories

Finding Nemo (2003) follows the story of a worrisome father, Marlin, who overprotects and shelters his son, Nemo, but is forced to set aside his fears when Nemo is taken by divers and encounters all sorts of sea creatures. While Marlin embarks on his adventure, Nemo plots his own escape in a dentist’s fish tank. Finding Dory (2016) narrows in on Marlin’s forgetful friend who helped him find his son, Dory, and her quest to find her parents that eventually leads her to a Marine Life Institute, befriending the sea creatures to help save her parents from captivity.

Finding Dory and Finding Nemo end in a steady place where there was no teaser for another sequel, but perhaps Finding Nemo 3 would grant the opportunity to further explore the characters I hold oh-so dearly. The stories of Marlin, Nemo, Dory have been such a great and exhilarating adventure to witness, so to explore more of what the future – or past – holds for them and their aquatic counterparts met along the way would give their stories a full circle completion. Besides, I would also love to see how Nemo’s friends from the dentist’s fish tank made it out of plastic bags and what their lives consist of now.

Finding Nemo And Finding Dory Were Extremely Successful

Both films in Pixar’s franchise have done extraordinarily well with not only critics but also with audiences. Finding Nemo has high scores on Rotten Tomatoes with a 99% rating and an 86% audience score, whereas – similarly – its sequel Finding Dory has a 94% rating and an 84% audience score, each film being wildly successful on its own but especially as a pair. Dauntingly enough, Finding Nemo is the third-highest rated Pixar film on Rotten Tomatoes’ Tomatometer – as I believe it should be – just behind Toy Story 2 in first and Toy Story in second.

The films Finding Nemo and Finding Dory are beloved, to put it plainly, as the people who grew up with the first film were entranced and eager to see its sequel because of how big the gap is between them. The kids like myself who saw Finding Nemo in theaters were eager to see Finding Dory because of that beautiful sense of nostalgia that it brought, that we were kids when it premiered and thirteen years older when its sequel premiered. I take it as our childhood calling to reconnect – just for a few hours.

“Finding Marlin” Could Focus On Marlin’s Trauma From the Beginning Of Finding Nemo

The beginning of Finding Nemo displays a healthy love between Marlin and his mate, Coral, as they have just gotten a new anemone home on the reef drop-off where they will raise their kids. However, a gruesome tale unfolds where a barracuda approaches the safe place where their fish eggs are growing, and Coral sacrifices herself to try and protect her eggs while Marlin is knocked out by an attack. When Marlin wakes, Coral and all the eggs – except one damaged one being Nemo – are gone, assumed eaten by the barracuda.

Finding Nemo 3 could focus on Marlin’s trauma from the beginning of Finding Nemo, and Coral’s character can be explored in depth since audiences only met her for a few short minutes. It also gives an opportunity to learn more about Marlin and what he was like before he was a father, because it makes sense that the barracuda attack augmented Marlin’s nervous behavior and beliefs due to his traumatizing encounter. But to know how Marlin acts and behaves before this event would be an interesting story to see unfold, to witness what the clownfish truly was like.

If any of the Pixar franchises should have a sequel film, it shouldn’t be Inside Out 3 but rather Finding Nemo 3, as there are many stories yet to be completed. The beloved film series has been adored for ages, as the first film premiered in 2003, the second in 2016, so another film added to the franchise’s belt would give me – and I’m sure others – a beautiful sense of nostalgia. Who knows if a sequel is even a discussion, but let’s hope Pixar’s Finding Nemo 3 plan is set and stone!