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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.
9/10
