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Gorgeous animation...it's even better than Toy Story
Toy Story was not bad, never saw Part II, liked Bug's Life, hated Monsters Inc. Finally Pixar gets it right. This film towered over such huge fare like Matrix Reloaded and X-Men 2 to become the biggest box-office grosser of 2003.

Marlin, a clownfish, is a bit protective of his son, Nemo. One day, Nemo gets captured by scuba divers and taken away to a dentist, with a rather unappealing niece(see: niece see fish, niece kill fish). So you got 2 stories: Marlin and his new forgetful friend, Dory, travelling through the ocean and coral reefs to rescue his son. Meanwhile, Nemo, in an aquarium, tries hard to break out, with his new friends.

One thing that a lot of animation studios, particularly Pixar does is combine kidlike humor with more adult humor. Adults will laugh at pop culture references and the sharks 12 step program to not eating meat while it'll just fly over kids heads.

The animation is spectacular, nowhere near the ultra-realist Final Fantasy, but definately the most colorful film and vibrant: Marlin's coral home to the "jellyfish forest" to the australian current are so vivid and detailed you'll just sit back and wonder how long they took.

Definately take a look. Oh the package has both widescreen(disc 1) and fullscreen(disc 2) which I think should be instituted a lot more

THIS MOVIE WAS BORING
I am really suprised this movie was so successful. I thought it was boring a tedious. I thought the fish Ellen voiced was annoying with her constant memory lose. I think only kids will like this unlike Shrek which I loved....

Family Fun Under the Sea!
*****5 stars for the film

Clown fish Marlin (voiced by Albert Brooks) and Coral (Elizabeth Perkins) live in the perfect anemone surburbia - and they're about to become proud parents of more than 400 kids. But then tragedy strikes, leaving Marlin a single parent of the lone egg that survives.

He names his son Nemo.

Given the circumstances, it's easy to understand why Marlin becomes a devoted (if neurotic) dad who is afraid to let his son out of his sight - not to mention a super-worrier about all the dangers of ocean. But when the free spirited Nemo (Alexander Gould) is taken by divers and held hostage in a dentist's aquarium, Marlin will have to swim the ocean to save his son. He is aided by Dory (Ellen DeGeneres in a hilarious performance), a zany blue tang fish who - memorably - happens to have short-term memory loss.

Along the way they meet surfer dude turtles, sharks who've taken a pledge, AA style, not to eat other fish ("Fish are friends, NOT food!") and a host of other original characters.

It's true that the technical wizards at Pixar have captured every nuance of light and water - you feel as though you *are* underwater. And more to the point, you feel like you're swimming through a rainbow. Finding Nemo is among the most brilliantly colorful movies ever made.

Finding Nemo doesn't have quite as many clever lines aimed to sail over kids' heads and at adults' as Monster's Inc. or Toy Story. But it does have heart, and it sticks to its story -Marlin as the overprotective parent who doesn't know how to let go; Nemo as the youngster eager to test his wings (that is, fins!) - and it hits all the right notes.

The kids will love it, and even adults who've sworn off Disney will be laughing despite themselves. Just make sure the kids know that in real life, all drains don't lead to the ocean (you'll understand when you see the film).

This one's a keeper.

"P. Sherman 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney. I remembered!"

*****5 stars for the DVD

Picture & sound quality are excellent.

2 discs. EXTRAS BONANZA ALERT! Lots of fun games & activities for the kids, a "Making Nemo" documentary, a Behind-the-Scenes tour of Pixar Animation Studios & lots more. Fullscreen & Widescreen viewing options.

Comes in a sturdy DVD snap case with artwork is pictured, inside of a protective slipcase with identical artwork.

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