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Summary: Sea It! Now!
Review: The imagination of Pixar reaches new heights with the release of FINDING NEMO, the year's most consistent entertainment. Armed with a gallery of gorgeous visuals, a stellar voice cast and a gripping narrative, the film is a sublime mix of all things wonderful. The core of its success is a terrific script that plays beyond small-fry. This fish tale is also a great adult parable that has surprising depth and feeling.Albert Brooks is Marlin, a widowed clownfish who smothers his son, Nemo. Fearful of the open sea, Nemo feels penned in, eventually breaking free in a moment of reckless spirit. Of course, there is a consequence and Nemo is captured and placed in an exotic fish tank. Marlin must then face his fears and head out into the open sea to find his son and return home. Pretty standard fable stuff, right? Wrong. While purists may think the film plays it safe in the shallows, the film's greatest strength is that it makes complex life issues (death, love, handicaps, child rearing) simple to digest and understand. Also, the film has a charming and sophisticated wit, an experienced bolstered by the expert delivery from the entire cast, especially Brooks and Ellen De Generes as Dory. Hype driven spectacle has dominated the summer, which is nothing new. Here is a film that plays on every level to every age group without numbing them into submission. It is without wonder that FINDING NEMO continues to dominate the box office. Refreshing, original and thoroughly entertaining, it is the movie of the season.
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Summary: Just okay at best
Review: From the previews alone I could tell Finding Nemo would be below par. After watching the movie, I'm sure of it. This movie is long, dull, and overly sentimental. The voices are horribly annoying, mainly Ellen DeGeneres. She's just plain horrible as an actress and a voice actress. Albert Brooks is okay, not great but not bad. I'd say the only really good voices in the movie are Crush played by Andrew Stanton, and Bruce played by Barry Humphries. And they're just extras with only a handful of lines. The story will bore you to death and you'll feel like Nemo trying to just get away from it to have some fun with the movie. Folks marvel at the graphics, but come on... you really think this is impressive? It's nothing compared to Pixar's past. Let's see... the incredible detail of Monsters Inc, or the ocean where you're lucky to see 20 feet in front of you and a few small fish. All in all, I say skip this movie. It's much like watching an aquarium on a slow day; If you've got nothing else to do, it can be entertaining to gawk at the fish. - Rirath_com
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Summary: Finding Meaning in Parenthood
Review: What an entertaining and moral teaching presented in such a high tech format. As a father, grandfather, and great grandfather I could so identify with the lesson of having to allow my children to find their own way yet being there for them as they ventured out. I even felt I had lost them for a while but eventually I found them again. The movie told my story really and I'm sure many parents felt the same identity. I've always felt movies are some of the greatest theraputic media available and this one certainly has that if the viewer is open to it. Thank you for such opportunities.
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Summary: Great family movie
Review: This movie is really great. The whole family including adult friends really all enjoyed it. The jokes in the movie were fun and it was very entertaining. I rate it better than toy story. This is a must see for everyone. Enjoy and have a great weekend at the movies.
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Summary: Not their best, but can't quite say why.
Review: Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich, 2003) You're a studio who just had two megahits come down the pike. You want another megahit. So what do you do? If you're Pixar, you take half the directing team from each, put them together, and presto! you have Finding Nemo. Stanton (A Bug's Life) and Unkrich (Monsters, Inc.) team up for the latest Pixar release, hopefully the last under the Disney banner. (That Pixar has gone so long under Disney's control without being tainted by the idiotic revisionism that mars most Disney films is remarkable in itself.) The odd thing about Nemo is that while it bears the same marks as Pixar's other releases to date (excellent script, engaging characters, tremendous animation, etc.), and while it had almost as much emotional impact as did Monsters, Inc., it didn't have the same lasting effect as that one did. I'm not sure why. Maybe we're so used to incredible movies from Pixar that Nemo suffers embarrassment-of-riches syndrome. Or maybe it's just not on the same level as Monsters, Inc. in come ineffable way. It's still a very, very good movie, it's just not as high on the ladder as was Monsters, Inc. The story is pretty simple (think of it as a more lighthearted The Searchers): Marlin (Albert Brooks), a clownfish, and his wife Coral (Elizabeth Perkins) have just moved into a new anemone when it gets attacked by predators. Coral is killed, and the only surviving egg from their litter ends up being Nemo. Marlin becomes a neurotic shut-in, and Nemo, outgoing and expressive, feels stifled by his father's fear. As soon as Nemo ventures out, though, he is caught by humans, and Marlin must overcome his fear and go looking for his son, having numerous adventures along the way. And I just realized what that erstwhile ineffable quality is: the film suffers from the Curse of Albert Brooks, a man who can take any script and lower its quality by his very presence. Why that is, I have no idea. but there you go. Also, it's probably to be expected that a kid's movie is going to have such a strong undertone of "if you disobey your parents bad things will happen to you," but it still grates. Enough of the bad. This does end up, after all the moralizing, being a fun movie. The other fish in the tank where Nemo is kept are a very fun bunch (including Willem Dafoe and Allison Janney), and Marlin hooks up with some great characters while on his rescue mission, including Dory (Ellen DeGeneres), who's basically Guy Pearce's character in Memento in female form. And the usual attention to humorous detail abounds (no one who sees the movie will forget the seagulls for a very long time). All in all, good, but could have been somewhat better. *** ½
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Summary: THE BEST PIXAR MOVIE EVER!!
Review: hey they really over did there selves. i mean it is my favourate movie now and i came to see if can preorder it now cuz i want it on dvd as soon as it comes out!! i am 12 and i went with my mom and lil bro and lil sis to watch this and i mean it is really the best movie ever to go and see!! if u didnt see it yet u have to go NOW !! I LOVE IT !!
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Summary: Pixar never seems to stop amazing me.
Review: Pixar is one of the only movie companies I know that have made 5 good movie in a row. I don't think Pixar could make a bad movie even if they tried. Finding Nemo is a great movie! I love Bruce the shark! This is a greate moive and I suggest that you see it.
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Summary: This fish tale's a keeper
Review: Who knew fish could be so, well... animated? Finding Nemo is a fun, enjoyable movie for both children and adults and it delivers a lot of laughs with remarkable gee-whiz computer technology. I'm still trying to imagine how writer/director Andrew Stanton can come up with these incredible story concepts. Previously involved in early Pixar releases like A Bug's Life and Monsters Inc., this time he creates an entire underwater universe with memorable characters and even manages to toss in a few jokes at us land dwellers. The often-heard, but largely unrecognized, Albert Brooks provides the distinctive voice to Marlin, a not-so-funny clownfish whose life was devastated after losing his wife and 400 (!) hatchlings to a shark attack. As a result, he becomes quite the stereotypical overprotective parent to his only surviving son, Nemo. Yet, for all his smothering, he is unable to keep young Nemo safe from the scary humans who capture him with plans to deliver to the evil brace-laden Daria (also known as the "fish killer!") Marlin's rescue attempt takes him through a world filled of crazy characters, including sharks in rehab, sea turtles that sound like surfers, to an epic battle in a dentist's office that I couldn't explain if I tried. Along the way he befriends the forgetful and annoying, but still loveable Dory (voiced by Ellen DeGeneres even though I was convinced it was Rosie O'Donnell.) The movie briefly touches on adult themes such as living with disabilities and learning to let go, but your kids won't even notice as we are bombarded with scene after scene of thrill ride action in a colorful underwater universe that looks amazingly lifelike. One of Disney/Pixar's best.
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Summary: Finding More Than Just Nemo!
Review: More of an overprotective parent than a relaxed comedian clownfish, Marlin is determine to rescue Nemo, his only son and bring him back home to safety after he has been kidnapped and taken above water. In the process of his desperate chase, Marlin meets up with our next main character, the optimistic but absent minded Dory who accompanies Marlin on his quest, much to his disapproval. In such a vast watery world I couldn't help but ask (out loud and to the person sitting next to me even), just what can two little fish possible expect to do to save Nemo? And how are they actually going to locate lost Nemo when he's not even in the ocean anymore? The film wasn't all that easy to second guess; in fact I found that I wasn't even trying to second-guess. I was just enjoying the wonderment of its visual and narrative arrangement that took me along a colorful and sometimes extremely dark and dangerous underwater journey through a sunken submarine, a wild and "righteous" ocean current, inside a whale's mouth, into Sydney's Harbor and down the sink drain. Like the rising and falling water of ocean tides, the storyline has perfect flow and it was easy for me to get caught up in the drift of the movie's momentous current. I even shed a few tears, but then that's just typical me and the way I sometimes get with Disney films, Finding Nemo was no exception. Undoubtedly as expected, this movie possesses some spectacular animation from start to finish; the settings and characters appear as completely natural as you would find them in real life. Also the film has remarkable voice talent too, with numerous Australian accents and fabulous impressions of whale speak, which I thoroughly enjoyed. There is also an interesting mix of humor and tactful character dynamics that make the movie delightfully entertaining. Such as a self-help support group formed by three sharks trying to overcome an addiction of eating fish, and the confined "pet store" fish plotting to dirty up the aquarium tank like something awful, to the mass havoc and confusion caused by a pelican in the dental office are just to name a few of my favorites scenes. Although the film ended with a funny, lighthearted note and the whole story lingered in the mind quite nicely afterwards. I thought the final climax just before it turned out be happily ever after was a little too bewildering and a little too much larger than life. And I didn't care for it in part because of the mixed feelings it left in me with. But regardless, the film altogether is pretty cute, charming and innocent. It's a story about finding courage, finding friends, finding trust and putting faith in others and what they can do. It's also about realizing one's capabilities despite what they have been led to believe by others or what they might appear to be lacking. It seems to be a story all in its own, fitting for all ages to enjoy, interpret differently and take to heart on multiple levels, very good and well worth seeing.
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Summary: Great Movie for Fish-Lovers
Review: I loved this movie. It was wonderful. One of Disney's best since Lion King. I cried at the end,it is definatly a movie I would like to see more than once. I love sharks(Great Whites especially). So if you are a fish-lover this movie is for you.
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