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2003's Finding Nemo is another richly entertaining comic adventure from Disney Pixar that brings a wonderfully imaginative story to the screen via some entertaining characters and a perfect voice cast.
Nemo (voiced by Alexander Gould) is the son of a clown fish named Marlin (wonderfully voiced by Albert Brooks) who is kidnapped by a scuba diver on his first day of school and ends up in a dentist's fish aquarium in Sydney, Australia. We then watch Marlin try to find his son with the help of an emotionally crippled fish named Dory (voiced by EllenDeGeneres) while it is also revealed that Nemo is going to be a gift to the dentist's neice, a little girl named Darla who accidentally kills fish.
The screenplay sadly and effectively sets up the relationship with Marlin and Nemo in the opening scene, establishing their relationship and making us want to see them back together more than anything in the world.
The voice cast is wonderful with some standout work from Willem Dafoe, Brad Garrett, and Allison Janney as other tenants of the aquarium but the film is easily stolen by DeGeneres as Dory, the hot mess of a fish with nothing but good intentions. Disney Pixar scored big time here and actually won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature.
2003's Finding Nemo is another richly entertaining comic adventure from Disney Pixar that brings a wonderfully imaginative story to the screen via some entertaining characters and a perfect voice cast.
Nemo (voiced by Alexander Gould) is the son of a clown fish named Marlin (wonderfully voiced by Albert Brooks) who is kidnapped by a scuba diver on his first day of school and ends up in a dentist's fish aquarium in Sydney, Australia. We then watch Marlin try to find his son with the help of an emotionally crippled fish named Dory (voiced by EllenDeGeneres) while it is also revealed that Nemo is going to be a gift to the dentist's neice, a little girl named Darla who accidentally kills fish.
The screenplay sadly and effectively sets up the relationship with Marlin and Nemo in the opening scene, establishing their relationship and making us want to see them back together more than anything in the world.
The voice cast is wonderful with some standout work from Willem Dafoe, Brad Garrett, and Allison Janney as other tenants of the aquarium but the film is easily stolen by DeGeneres as Dory, the hot mess of a fish with nothing but good intentions. Disney Pixar scored big time here and actually won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature.