ITS the latest installment featuring the life in the Great Barrier Reef has local families flocking to the cinemas today.

Birch Carroll and Coyle manager Kheenan Holzberger said the first two screenings of Finding Dory were sold out and it was expected this afternoon's sessions would be the same.

He said it was definitely a family type of day at the cinemas with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie session also selling out.

Mr Holzberger said there were about 70 people who attended this morning's screening of Me Before You.

The Finding Dory movie synopsis is - Dory is a wide-eyed, blue tang fish who suffers from memory loss every 10 seconds or so. The one thing she can remember is that she somehow became separated from her parents as a child. With help from her friends Nemo and Marlin, Dory embarks on an epic adventure to find them.