Finding Nemo
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Finding Nemo is an Academy award-winning computer-animated film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released to theaters by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution. It was released in the United States/Canada on May 30, 2003, in Australia on August 27, 2003 and in the UK on 10 October 2003. The movie is the fifth Disney/Pixar feature film and the first to be released during the summer season(Taken from wikipedia.org)
The movie was released on a 2-disc DVD on November 4, 2003 in the United States and Canada, in Australia on January 16, 2004, and the UK on February 27, 2004. It went on to become the best selling DVD of all time, with 28 million copies sold. In 2005, Time magazine listed it as one of the top 100 films ever made. (Taken from wikipedia.org)
Film story
Finding Nemo is a fantastic movie, full of memorable characters, fast-paced action and a cinematic wonder. Unlike many of the “family” films weve been getting, it doesnt take the easy way out with over the top silly jokes.
Writer and director Andrew Stanton also did Monsters Inc and A Bugs Life. These two films only go on for 100 minutes but it’s just short enough to keep the kids watching it without falling asleep. Finding Nemo strongly makes itself a family film, rather than the usually awful films you take the family to.
Through a horrible event, Nemo (Alexander Gould) loses his mum and 499 of his siblings leaving only his father Marlin (Albert Brooks), a worrying clown fish, who over-protects his son from the many dangers hidden in the Great Barrier Reef. In an act of revolution, Nemo swims past the reefs “drop off,” where hes caught by a scuba-diving dentist, who puts Nemo inside a fish aquarium.
Although Marlin knows nothing about his sons doom, he is strong-minded to find him, no matter how rough the waters ahead may be. The nervous clown fish starts on the journey of a lifetime, in hope of rescuing his child. In a stroke of luck when Marlin meets up with a blue tang fish named Dory (Ellen Degeneres), who saw the direction of the dentist boat was heading in. The bad thing with Dory is that she has next to no short-term memory; therefore she can get things wrong so she doesnt really remember which way the boat was going in.
Swimming on a gut feeling, Marlin and Dory head out to find Nemo. Soon, they meet up with a rehab group of sharks trying to give up the habit of eating fish. The great white is named Bruce (Barry Humphries). Spielberg originally used the name Bruce for the mechanical shark in the Jaws movie. These inside jokes always got a laugh out of me. You can find the same thing in Monsters, Inc., when Mike tells Celia that he has a booking at Harryhausens. Referring to Ray Harryhausen who was a legend in stop-motion. He created hundreds of amazing monsters. Its good to see Pixar sending props out to the past greats that inspired them.
Bruce the Great White falls off the wagon which makes a tense action sequence. It scares the kids in the audience, without terrifying them. The “terrifying” scene comes a few minutes later when our heroes go down deeper into the ocean, in search of the facemask containing the information about Nemos whereabouts. When you see the gleaming brightness that makes both Marlin and Dory feel warm and gooey, watch out because your kids might get scared and need some reassurance.
Although hes in a tank, Nemo isnt having a great time, either. Soon after arriving, he finds out that hes about to become a gift to the dentists niece which is not a good thing because she’s crazy. Through the use of a photograph, Nemos new fish friends who are in the tank with him are also trying to escape show him what happened to last years “gift.” To his terror, Nemo sees the brace-faced niece, holding her “gift fish”, which she shook to death. What is Pixars problem with kids and braces? They always seem to be portrayed