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Lots of violence; little message!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why am I giving this DVD one star? Because zero was not offered as an option. My 3 year old daughter hated this movie and cried most of the time! It went from one violent scary moment to another! My husband and I were stunned...we kept thinking it HAD to get better but it didn't! How did this get a "G" rating?!? While other children's movies have some violence, like Lion King, Brother Bear, etc., those movies quickly defuse the fearful moments with an extended comic relief moment or song. With this movie, soon as a child is starting to calm down after seeing something like the take off of the Stephen King movie "The Shining" 'Here's Johnny!' scene, there quickly comes a scene with a horrifying creature with a long fangs chasing Nemo's father and Dorie, or Nemo almost getting ground up by the filtration system in the fish tank or one of the many other horrifying scenes. This kind of stuff went on throughout the whole length of the movie. This is NOT a movie for young children! The animation is well done...making things look very real, thus more scary. We have taken our daughter to see Brother Bear five times at the theater and watched it countless times on DVD! Our whole family still loves Brother Bear!!!!!!! Our daughter loves Brother Bear and knows all the songs! For the money that people have to pay for movies these days, the better value is Brother Bear...Gorgeous animation, a sound track that rivals Lion King, and a message for people of all ages. Like Lion King and Finding Nemo, the topic of death plays a role in Brother Bear, but in the end, it is shown that those loved ones who were lost are still forever watching over the ones they left behind. Brother Bear has a wonderful story of forgiveness, tolerance of those different than you and the importance of taking responsibility for those you have hurt and working to heal. Brother Bear is what a Disney movie should be, NOT the mindless violence of Finding Nemo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Movie Industry Needs Pixar
Why? Where most studios go on a hit and miss mentality and are at their best are above-average in putting out great movies, the whizzes at Pixar are seemingly on a sacred mission to please movie-goers with classic but innovative storytelling and eye-popping computer animation. That tradition is carried on proudly by "Finding Nemo," Pixars' fifth outing in the movie biz. And the question begs, "How much better can they get?" The plot revolves around a over-protective clownfish named Marlin (Albert Brooks) and his son, Nemo (Alexander Gould). Marlin is terrified of losing Nemo like he lost his wife and other children to a hungry sea predator. So when Nemo is kidnapped by a dentist diver from Australia, Marlin goes on a mad search for him. Along the way, befriends Dory (Ellen Degeneres) whose short-term memory problem is a pain for Marlin, but hilarious scatterbrained humor for the audience.

To support Dory and Marlin, is the movies' lush and and vibrant computer animation. An ocean environment in tough to capture in animation because everything is in constant motion with changing currents. However, directors Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich make it all look easy. They serve up some eye-catching chase and cliffhangar scenes but their real strength is making you feel the ocean and all its many diverse plants and animals with genuine authticity. The star of "Finding Nemo" may not be the touching Albert Brooks or the uncanny Ellen Degeneres, but the water environment that surrounds them.

But the stars of the movie are the many characters and the wildly imaginative screenwriters. Each separate characters are deftly developed that you find yourself caring for them so much. Albert Brooks is poigiant and so touching as Marlin, who goes through major changes in his search for his son. Ellen Degeneres is laugh-out-loud hilarious as Dory, but is equally as touching as Marlin is a scene in the an Australian bay that makes you want to cry softly to yourself. Also Wllem Dafoe and Brad Garret (Everybody Loves Raymond) turn up as inhabitants of the dentist diver's office aquarium and turn in colorful performances.

In a sequel-filled summer that has performed below expectations, isn't it ironic that the summers' most commercially and critically successful movie involves talking fish? Not really, because "Finding Nemo"s storytelling is so unforced and nuanced, its vocal actors so natural in their roles, the characters so memorable and the animation so fluid, that is becomes clear why "Finding Nemo" is this summer's biggest hit.

truely moving animated epic
After "Finding Nemo", its becoming more and more doubtful that Pixar knows how to make a bad film. Following "Toy Story", "Toy Story 2", and "Monster's Inc", and "A Bug's Life"(which, though good, was outshined by the similar animated film that year, "Antz"), Pixar seems unable to do wrong. Finding Nemo follows a father's search to find his son who was snatched by a scuba diving dentist. During his seemingly impossible search, he runs into a fish with short term memory loss, Dori(who is played astoundingly well by Ellen DeGeneres). What follows is a surprisingly sweet, gentle, and funny film with spectacular animation. This is a movie that you cannot aford to miss.

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