Albert Brooks Commits to Finding Nemo 2

In my head, I play this scene as Albert Brooks; half serious, half parody.

"Nemo is missing! AGAIN!"

I can't get over Pixar reducing itself to Finding Nemo 2. Their batting average alone puts everyone else to shame. But this is a sequel and sequels, as you know, print money. Those original concepts of theirs (the Ratatouilles, the Ups, the Wall-Es) don't do that fast enough to their liking, I guess. It helps (ahem "helps") Andrew Stanton has the directorial equivalent to hemmohards after the hemorrhaging also known as John Carter of Carter. And here we are.

A deal with Ellen DeGeneres is long since done. So now Pixar has pulled out their checkbook and signing over another hefty amount for Albert Brooks to return as Marlin, the over-protective clownfish father of the title character. Maybe in this time, he goes missing? Eh?

As my pal Renn Brown suggested, I'll wrap myself up to the thought of Pixar's next projects following the equally "Really?" follow-up Monsters University: The Good Dinosaur and The Inside Out.