Finding Mattmo
Posted on: October 4, 2019 at 19:28:20 CT
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Mattmo is a young and cheerful minnowfish who happily lives with his father, Marlin, in Lake Michigan, and is eager to explore life around the lake, but Marlin is overprotective of him, due to a pike attack that killed his wife, Coral, and the rest of their eggs years before, leaving him and Mattmo as the only survivors. Mattmo's egg was damaged in the process and was born with a bad fin. On the first day of school, Marlin embarrasses Mattmo during a field trip. When Marlin talks to the teacher, Mr. Ray, Mattmo sneaks away from the rocks and is abducted by a scuba diver, who puts him on a speedboat. Marlin gives chase and meets Dory, a crappie who suffers from short term memory loss. The pair encounter three muskellunge named Bruce, Anchor, and Chum who are trying to not eat fish. While at their meeting, Marlin sees the diver's mask that fell from the boat that took Mattmo and also sees writing on it. However, Marlin and Dory fight over the mask, giving Dory a nose bleed. The blood sends Bruce into a feeding frenzy, and he attacks Marlin and Dory, who narrowly escape. Meanwhile, Mattmo is placed in an aquarium in a dentist's office in Chicago ,Ill, where he meets the Tank Gang, including catfish Bubbles, crawdad Peach, sucker fish Jacques, perch Bloat, paddlefish Gurgle, and darter Deb, led by Gill, a common carp. That night, Mattmo learns he is to be given to the dentist's niece, Darla, who has accidentally killed previous fish given to her, including a goldfish named Chuckles. Gill devises a plan to escape by sending Mattmo inside the aquarium's filter and jamming it with a pebble so the dentist will have to put the fish into plastic bags while the tank gets cleaned, then roll out the window and into the harbour. Nemo agrees to do it but fails and is almost killed. Everybody saves him and Gill is left guilt-ridden. The mask falls into a trench in the deep Lake, where Dory reads the address as P. Sherman, 42 Wallaby Way, Chicago. She remembers it despite her short term memory loss. Dory and Marlin receive directions from a school of trout. They are supposed to swim through a trench, but Marlin decides they should swim over it, and they encounter a forest of eels that almost bites them to death, but they survive. Marlin and Dory wake up to find themselves on the Lake Michigan Current and have a good time with Crush, a red eared slider, his son, Squirt, and all the turtle children. Marlin tells the story of his quest to the turtles, who are impressed, and news spreads across the Lake. A heron named Nigel flies to the dentist's office and brings the news of Marlin's efforts to find Mattmo. Inspired by his father's bravery, Mattmo makes another attempt to jam the filter, and succeeds. Soon, the aquarium and its contents are covered in green algae.Marlin and Dory exit the Lake Michigan Current and are engulfed by a sturgeon. Dory communicates with the sturgeon, who carries them to Chicago Harbour and expels them through his mouth. There, they meet Nigel, who help the pair escape from a group of seagulls and takes them to the dentist's office. Meanwhile, the dentist has installed a new high-tech filter, the AquaScum 2003, foiling the Tank Gang's escape. Darla arrives, and the dentist prepares to give Mattmo to her. Mattmo plays dead to save himself as Nigel arrives, terrifying Darla and throwing the office into chaos. After the dentist throws Nigel out, Gill helps Mattmo escape through a drain that leads to the lake. Thinking that Mattmo really is dead, Marlin abandons Dory and begins his journey home. Marlin's departure causes Dory to lose her memory. However, she meets Mattmo as he reaches the lake, but she does not remember him. However, Dory's memory returns when she reads the word "Chicago" on a drainpipe. She reunites Mattmo with Marlin, but is caught in a net with a school of striped bass. Nemo enters the net and orders the fish to swim down in order to break the net so they can escape. After returning home to the rocks, Marlin and Dory watch Mr. Ray take Mattmo and his friends on a field trip. Meanwhile, the dentist's new filter breaks, and the Tank Gang escape into the harbor unnoticed, realizing only too late that they are still trapped in their plastic bags.