Reviews of Finding Nemo

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Posted : 1 week, 3 days ago on 11 December 2009 05:17 (A review of Finding Nemo )

Deep, dark and interesting. And no this is not sarcasm. How many animated movies do you know had fish with short-term memory loss, overprotective parents and death? I can think of one.

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Finding Nemo review

Posted : 1 week, 6 days ago on 8 December 2009 07:33 (A review of Finding Nemo )

Finding Nemo is without a single doubt one of the funniest and most treasured animated films ever. It is a clever story with hilarious, cute and extremely lovable characters. Finding Nemo is probably the most adult out of all PIXARs so far because it has such hilarious jokes especially with Dory's short-term memory loss. The animated effects inside the water and the sea creatures are almost like Ratatouille and WALL-E effects. It is a very inspiring film as far as Marlin's commitment to achieve his goal which is to find his son Nemo. I love films that are for both kids and adults. Finding Nemo is a really cool animated film. What I mean that it's a cool film is that it has a lot of really hilarious sayings that a teenager would say such as "Dude" and "Sweet". Finding Nemo may not be as famous as Toy Story 1+2 but it is better than both of them. Finding Nemo is the one PIXAR that everybody loves.


I loved all of the different sets of characters in Finding Nemo. They all had two things in common: funny and serious. Marlin is a clown fish who is a single parent after his wife Coral was eaten by a pike. Because of the tragedy and his now open fear of the ocean, he is very overprotective towards his son Nemo up until one day that phobia hits him in the face when Nemo is taken away by deep-sea Australian divers. Marlin takes his adventurous journey to find his son with a fish who has short-term memory loss. Her name is Dory. She is the funniest out of the entire film as well as one of the funniest film characters of all time. She comes out with some really silly things and gets herself and Marlin is really awkward situations such as "speaking Whale", always saying Nemo's name incorrectly and also when she almost suddenly forgets things. Dory is a character that is just too hilarious to ignore or to not laugh at. I love Nemo's personality because he is a very cute character and with such a powerful way of seeing through life at such a young age. He is a very brave little fish because he shows that he isn't really that scared of the ocean like his father is. I loved his close friendship with Gill who is the leader of the group within the Sydney Dentist fish tank. I loved other featured characters such as the three vegetarian sharks Bruce, Anchor and Chum, the fish within tank Gill, Bloat, Peach, Jacques, Bubbles, Deb and Gurgle, turtles Crush and Squirt, pelican Nigel and sting-ray Mr. Ray. If you think about it and see the cast, this film actually has an awesome cast including hilarious American homosexual comedian Ellen DeGeneres as Dory, Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush as Nigel, Willem Dafoe as Gill, director Andrew Stanton as Crush, Allison Janney as Peach and other returning PIXAR actors John Ratzenberger, Brad Garrett and Bob Peterson.


Andrew Stanton surprised a lot of people of how great Finding Nemo really turned out to be and how successful it was with the gross takings. Stanton's direction of Finding Nemo is the most adult PIXAR film so far. I could easily tell that Stanton's work on Finding Nemo was work that really needed thinking through because he probably wanted it to be funny, dramatic and rather tense for adults and for kids. He made it not too kiddish and not too grown-up either which is what I love the most about Finding Nemo. The script was very awesome with such hilarious scenes and with very motivating movements as the film was carrying on. To me, Finding Nemo was written to send people a very important message almost like an alert so to speak to advice parents not to be so overprotective but also to not do almost everything they want.


Finding Nemo was nominated for 4 Academy Awards. It won Best Animated Picture 2003 but was nominated for Best Original Screenplay but lost to Lost In Translation, Best Sound Editing but lost to Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World and Best Music Original Score but lost to The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King. This film was nominated for a Golden Globe as well: Best Picture Musical/Comedy but lost to Lost In Translation.


Finding Nemo is one of the top films of 2003 as well as one of the top animated films of all time. Finding Nemo is the funniest animated film of all time without a doubt. Finding Nemo is a film that only PIXAR could have created. It is a film that has earned a lot of credit in awards and also with the public as well. Finding Nemo is my second favourite PIXAR after my favourite Ratatouille. Finding Nemo deserves its rightful place on the best of comedy, adventure and animation in the world of cinema. It is a masterpiece that I do watch quite regularly and don't ever get bored of it.

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Finding Nemo

Posted : 1 year, 1 month ago on 24 October 2008 08:11 (A review of Finding Nemo )

I think it is a good film and i think Dory makes it even better. I'd give it a 9/10 because there should be more of her because she's funny... or they should do another one. I also think crush the sea turtle is "awsome". But there should of been more of him too.

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Great animation

Posted : 1 year, 8 months ago on 3 April 2008 06:59 (A review of Finding Nemo )

This is a great animated film. I fell in love with all the characters and the story was absolutely incredible.

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Heartwarming Tale of Fish

Posted : 2 years, 4 months ago on 17 August 2007 09:20 (A review of Finding Nemo )

I usually have great disdain for Disney movies and animated movies made in America in general. It's primarily from the fact that they either overload with tasteless adult humor or go in the opposite spectrum of childish redundancy. However, Finding Nemo surprised me in that it was actually good and tugged a bit at the heart strings. I've come to the conclusion that if Pixar is in the mix it's probably gonna be a damn good Disney movie.

The thing about family-oriented kid movies is that they should be enjoyed by kids of all ages. Finding Nemo accomplishes this and had any other movie had taken someone of the jokes it'd come off as crude but there's some tact involved and only the targeted audience for such jokes will understand them. And sides. They said "butt." That's good enough for me.

Recommend for children of ALL ages. Unless you have no soul.

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Possibly the best Pixar film to date

Posted : 2 years, 4 months ago on 17 August 2007 09:15 (A review of Finding Nemo )

This is possibly the best Pixar animated film to date. Being Pixar, naturally the CGI animation is incredible, but more importantly, the adventure and the amount of laughs found throughout are definitely above most other animated films, with the exception of Shrek, Flushed Away, and Hoodwinked.

The beginning is quite possibly one of the harshest starts of any children's cartoon. At least Bambi waited til the end to have the mother die, but Nemo's mom (and every egg except for one) get eaten in the first few minutes, but the story required such a start to make the dad over-protective of his son, and when Nemo gets captured by a scuba diver, it's up to him to go find and save his son. And what a fun adventure it is. He gets help from a fish with severe cast of short-term memory loss, which was a great way to keep jokes going all the way throughout; then there is encounter with sharks, encounter with deep sea trenches and the scary fish that live down there, jellyfishes, turtles, the ever-funny flock of seagulls, and more.

But story keeps jumping over to Nemo's own adventure in a dental offices' fishtank where he meets a colorful gang of fish, and Nemo with his new friends are determined to escape back to the sea themselves.

A beautiful story, lots of laughs, and well recommended for everyone in the family, young and old. A future classic has been born.

And taking my daughter to a fish store and seeing those same fish swimming around makes her face light up with joy, so that in itself earns it an extra point in my books.

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