The website's critical consensus reads, "Funny, poignant, and thought-provoking, "Finding Dory" delivers a beautifully animated adventure that adds another entertaining chapter to its predecessor's classic story." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 77 out of 100, based on 48 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale, while PostTrak reported filmgoers gave it a 91% overall positive score and an 81% "definite recommend". Mike Ryan of "Uproxx" gave the film a positive review, saying: "I never thought I wanted a sequel to "Finding Nemo", but here we are and I'm pretty happy it exists. And, for me, it was a more emotional experience than the first film. "Finding Dory" got me—it made me cry." A. O. Scott of "The New York Times" said that while the film lacks "dazzling originality", he overall wrote, "it more than makes up for in warmth, charm and good humor". In his review for "Variety", Owen Gleiberman wrote, "It's a film that spills over with laughs (most of them good, a few of them shticky) and tears (all of them earned), supporting characters who are meant to slay us (and mostly do) with their irascible sharp tongues, and dizzyingly extended flights of physical comedy." Joe Morgenstern of "The Wall Street Journal" said that ""Finding Dory" can be touching, sweet and tender, but it's compulsively, preposterously and steadfastly funny." Peter Travers of "Rolling Stone" gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four and said that the film "brims with humor, heart and animation miracles", despite lacking "the fresh surprise of its predecessor". Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter gave the film a negative review, writing, "Its heroine may suffer from short-term memory loss, but viewers with any memory at all will realize that "Finding Dory" falls rather short of its wondrous progenitor." Writing for the Los Angeles Times, Kenneth Turan said that, "As the 13-year gap between "Nemo" and "Dory" indicates, this was not a concept that cried out to be made." Conservationists warned that, very much like "Finding Nemo", the film could lead to uninformed customers buying regal blue tang fish, Dory’s species, for home aquariums.