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List Price: $29.99 | | Label: Walt Disney Video
Salesrank: 216
Released: November 4, 2003 |
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MPAA Rating: G (General Audience)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
From the Academy Award(R)-winning creators of TOY STORY and MONSTERS, INC. (2001, Best Animated Short Film, FOR THE BIRDS), it's FINDING NEMO, a hilarious adventure where you'll meet colorful characters that take you into the breathtaking underwater world of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Nemo, an adventurous young clownfish, is unexpectedly taken to a dentist's office aquarium. It's up to Marlin (Albert Brooks), his worrisome father, and Dory (Ellen DeGeneres), a friendly but forgetful regal blue tang fish, to make the epic journey to bring Nemo home. Their adventure brings them face-to-face with vegetarian sharks, surfer dude turtles, hypnotic jellyfish, hungry seagulls, and more. Marlin discovers a bravery he never knew, but will he be able to find his son? FINDING NEMO's breakthrough computer animation takes you into a whole new world with this undersea adventure about family, courage, and challenges. Take the plunge into FINDING NEMO, a "spectacularly beautiful animated adventure for everyone" -- David Sheehan, CBS-TV
Description of Finding Nemo (Two-Disc Collector's Edition):
A delightful undersea world unfolds in Pixar's animated adventure Finding Nemo. When his son Nemo is captured by a scuba-diver, a nervous-nellie clownfish named Marlin (voiced by Albert Brooks) sets off into the vast--and astonishingly detailed--ocean to find him. Along the way he hooks up with a scatterbrained blue tang fish named Dory (Ellen DeGeneres), who's both helpful and a hindrance, sometimes at the same time. Faced with sharks, deep-sea anglers, fields of poisonous jellyfish, sea turtles, pelicans, and much more, Marlin rises above his neuroses in this wonderfully funny and nonstop thrill ride--rarely does more than 10 minutes pass without a sequence destined to become a theme park attraction. Pixar continues its run of impeccable artistic and economic success (their movies include Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, and Monsters, Inc). Also featuring the voices of Willem Dafoe, Geoffrey Rush, and Allison Janney. --Bret Fetzer
Finding Nemo (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) Reviews:
Finding Nemo: The Movie For All Ages 
2009-12-02 - Finding Nemo possesses all the elements of a fantastic Pixar movie- wackiness, comedy, and an exciting plot. The use of color and form makes Finding Nemo one of these rare movies where I wanted to sit in the front row to be dazzled by the animations.
The story tells about the adventure of little Nemo, a clown fish born with a disabled fin. He gets captured away by scuba divers after the conflict and argument with his overprotective father, Marlin. Marlin then embarks on a journey to search and return home with his son safely.
The actors voice the characters so that their own mannerisms are present in the fish characters, which are familiar to us. The director, Andrew Stanton has done a terrific job for the fish to take on the qualities of human personalities. For example, Albert Brooks plays Marlin, an overprotective worrywart and Ellen Degeneres voices Dory as a cheerful fish who has the memory span of an average two year old. The undersea world is just a shade murky, as it should be; we can't seem to see far or sharply in sea water. There is something dreamlike about the visuals of Finding Nemo that evokes the reverie of scuba-diving.
The movie's great inspiration is to leave the sea by putting Nemo to a big tank in the dentist's office. In it, many other fish are held captives including the Moorish Gill. It may seem that there is no possible way a fish can escape from an aquarium "out the window, across a highway, and into the sea," but there is no accounting for the genius minds of these creatures which further displays the human characteristics. Also, the fish have help from a conspirator on the outside- a pelican with the voice of Geoffrey Rush.
It is interesting how the director chose the animals to act in an abnormal behavior by converting to vegetarianism. This supports the overall theme of unity between humans and animals due to the similar behaviors between the two.
The first scenes of Finding Nemo are a little unsettling, as we realize the movie is going to be about fish and not people. But of course, animation has long since learned to relate other species to humankind and to care about fish quickly becomes easy as caring about mice or ducks or Bambi.
Finding Nemo provides a pleasant experience to watch or all audiences from children to grownups. The movie contains many twists and jokes that only adults would understand. Finding Nemo is a truly great movie and will keep you at the edge of your seat guessing what will happen next.
"My Bubbles!"
2009-11-29 - Ok, this movie is totally awesome! Wonderful touching, funny story line, beautiful effects, (makes you feel like you are in the ocean), and so much more. It is about a boy named Nemo, who gets seperated from his father, and they both go on quite a journey to go back home. You feel all emotions of the characters, and you love all of the characters as well! And I must say that Ellen did such a wonderfull job on this movie, she was perfect for the role. Really, all the characters where perfect. I do not have children, but I am a child at heart and love this movie. This is so awesome and would highly recommend for any one! A must see!
Such a great story! 
2009-11-17 - My son LOVES this movie. Yes, there are some parts in there that are a tad scary for little guys, but overall it's a heart-warming, adventurous tale!
Here Fishy Fishy Fishy Fish 
2009-11-08 - Finding Nemo: 6 out of 10: As a kid's movie Finding Nemo is great. If somehow your munchkins don't already own a copy, have the toys or God forbid seen the ice show (there is something about fish on ice that's a bit creepy. Funny but creepy.) Feel free to buy a copy. You'll get your moneys worth, as the little animatrons will undoubtedly view it endlessly.
But as an adult with no little minds of my own to feed the movie left me wanting. For one thing I've seen it before... about a hundred times before. Parent loses kid, kid loses dog, dog loses family, family loses toy, and so forth. Then the endless journey filled with danger, setbacks and endless comic relief characters begins. Finding Nemo, at least narratively, doesn't bring anything new to the party.
The fact that Pixar themselves are guilty of using this exact same plot in all their movies doesn't help matters. (Pixar's next feature The Incredibles would actually break this trend somewhat and is the most adult friendly toon of theirs to date) The simple fact is after being spoiled by Shrek (or even Ice Age) I like my kid films to be more accommodating to adults.
Not that some things don't work very well indeed (Bruce the 12 step shark and the "mine, mine, mine," seagulls are particularly effective). It's just that the whole film had a cloying sentimentality I usually associate with NBC Olympic coverage or a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie about a Depression Christmas.
That said kids will love it. The animation is spectacular. And as these things go it certainly is very well done. Just not my cup of tea I guess. I prefer my fish with a little more bite and lemon and butter.
Good
2009-10-30 - It shipped pretty fast, which i loved, but it was a little more scratched than I was hoping for. Overall the movie still played and my son loves it. That's all that really matters!
