![]() The animation team had to completely redesign the pipeline and other tools that they use for these kinds of productions. The film was a technological breakthrough in computer-animated features. The story and characters are enough to entertain the kids, but as usual Pixar strives for much more than that. Other notable voices in the film include Brag Garrett with his trademark deep bass voice, Eric Bana, and Pixar’s lucky charm, John Ratzenberger. The director himself took on the part of Crush, and it remains one of the highlights of the film and easily remains some of the most repeated dialog from the kids who have seen the film 376 times. Willem Dafoe is underused as the tank leader who tries to impart some street wisdom on Nemo. Fortunately, the film is populated with all sorts of wonderful characters and voice actors. Of course, this annoying state of affairs is just business as usual for the untalented performer. The voice work is also completely over the top. She’s about as annoying as a character can get. Ellen DeGeneres is the film’s only real fatal flaw. Albert Brooks is just about perfect as the worrying father Marlin. Marlin encounters all sorts of other sea life and enters different ecco-systems along the way. It is also more educational than most of these animated features. The film is actually a pretty wild adventure. They try to help Nemo escape before the dentist’s killer niece comes to take him away. There he makes a few friends that include a starfish named Peach (Janney) and a mysterious survivor from the open water, Gill (Dafoe). Meanwhile Nemo is being held in a fish tank at a dentist’s office. They also encounter a shark named Bruce (Humphries) who has sworn off eating fish, Crush (Stanton) a surfer-dude sea turtle, and an array of carnivorous fish, birds, and jellyfish. Along the way he meets up with Dory (DeGeneres) a blue tang with short-term memory issues. A dropped scuba mask gives him the only clue to where they might have taken him. Nemo gets scooped up by a diver and taken away. But just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not really out to get you. Nemo thinks he’s overprotective, and he probably is. After the tragic events of the beginning of the film, Marlin is understandably a very protective parent, and he’s quite nervous about Nemo leaving the safety of the anemone and going off to school. ![]() Jump ahead to Nemo’s first day of school. All except one remaining egg, which he names Nemo (Gould). Before long Coral and their babies are gone. It’s a wonderful life until a barracuda strays into their neighborhood and tragedy strikes. They’ve just moved into a new spacious home together, and they have about 400 eggs ready to make them parents many times over. Marlin (Brooks) and Coral (Perkins) are a couple of very happy clown fish. It was a technical milestone, and it brought in the cash to justify the R&D that went into the movie. Both Disney World and Disneyland have rides with a Nemo theme. Disney is also quite good at marketing those kinds of advantages, and stuffed Nemo toys are still pretty popular a decade later. There isn’t a kid alive who doesn’t know what a clown fish looks like and that it lives in anemones. ![]() It might be too early to tell if Finding Nemo will fit that timeless classic mold, but it has already left a pretty strong impact on our pop culture.įinding Nemo did for clown fish what Jaws did for great white sharks. It’s been one of Walt Disney’s defining characteristics over the decades. Still, the true success of a film can not always be found in the box office take. But that would be just one of 35 awards the film would go on to win. The animated feature took the Oscar for best animated feature that year. The final total would be just shy of a billion dollars. It took in over $70 million in just its first weekend. It was certainly a divergence from the tried and true Pixar formula, and even the people involved with the project were concerned that it would become Pixar’s first flop. When Finding Nemo was released in May of 2003 there were a ton of skeptics. “When you said you wanted an ocean view, you didn’t think you’d get the whole ocean, did you?”
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