Finding Nemo (2003)
Country: AUS/US
Technical: col 100m
Director: Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich
Cast: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Willem Dafoe, Geoffrey Rush
Synopsis:
A clownfish on the Great Barrier Reef gets separated from his father and winds up in an aquarium belonging to the surgery of a Sydney dentist. Despairingly his father sets out on what seems a hopeless rescue mission with a quirkily talkative blue fish stricken with short-term memory loss, but learns the importance of faith, determination and, in parental terms, slackening the leash.
Review:
Pixar's next production after Monsters Inc. has some familiar ingredients from the Toy Story films (the alternately naïve and impatient bickering duo who must learn to be friends, the heterogeneous band of characters working to a common cause, the sadistic kid, the epic journey fraught with perils) but few people noticed because the setting was so different and seemed to be about fish. Conservation issues are, perhaps surprisingly, left unexplored (Sydney harbour is plainly quite clean); but the opportunity to exploit the wonder and awe potential of the ocean is well availed, with sharks, gloomy depths beyond the reach of sunlight, jellyfish, a whale, and a theme-park inflected East Australia Current ride on the backs of turtles all providing narrative counterpoint to the Great Escape-themed action of the dental surgery. The animation of details as subtle as the appearance of other liquids in seawater breaks new ground, and the voice cast and trademark humour (gulls that can only speak the word, 'mine', for example) afford still further pleasures for audiences of all ages.
Country: AUS/US
Technical: col 100m
Director: Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich
Cast: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Willem Dafoe, Geoffrey Rush
Synopsis:
A clownfish on the Great Barrier Reef gets separated from his father and winds up in an aquarium belonging to the surgery of a Sydney dentist. Despairingly his father sets out on what seems a hopeless rescue mission with a quirkily talkative blue fish stricken with short-term memory loss, but learns the importance of faith, determination and, in parental terms, slackening the leash.
Review:
Pixar's next production after Monsters Inc. has some familiar ingredients from the Toy Story films (the alternately naïve and impatient bickering duo who must learn to be friends, the heterogeneous band of characters working to a common cause, the sadistic kid, the epic journey fraught with perils) but few people noticed because the setting was so different and seemed to be about fish. Conservation issues are, perhaps surprisingly, left unexplored (Sydney harbour is plainly quite clean); but the opportunity to exploit the wonder and awe potential of the ocean is well availed, with sharks, gloomy depths beyond the reach of sunlight, jellyfish, a whale, and a theme-park inflected East Australia Current ride on the backs of turtles all providing narrative counterpoint to the Great Escape-themed action of the dental surgery. The animation of details as subtle as the appearance of other liquids in seawater breaks new ground, and the voice cast and trademark humour (gulls that can only speak the word, 'mine', for example) afford still further pleasures for audiences of all ages.
Country: AUS/US
Technical: col 100m
Director: Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich
Cast: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Willem Dafoe, Geoffrey Rush
Synopsis:
A clownfish on the Great Barrier Reef gets separated from his father and winds up in an aquarium belonging to the surgery of a Sydney dentist. Despairingly his father sets out on what seems a hopeless rescue mission with a quirkily talkative blue fish stricken with short-term memory loss, but learns the importance of faith, determination and, in parental terms, slackening the leash.
Review:
Pixar's next production after Monsters Inc. has some familiar ingredients from the Toy Story films (the alternately naïve and impatient bickering duo who must learn to be friends, the heterogeneous band of characters working to a common cause, the sadistic kid, the epic journey fraught with perils) but few people noticed because the setting was so different and seemed to be about fish. Conservation issues are, perhaps surprisingly, left unexplored (Sydney harbour is plainly quite clean); but the opportunity to exploit the wonder and awe potential of the ocean is well availed, with sharks, gloomy depths beyond the reach of sunlight, jellyfish, a whale, and a theme-park inflected East Australia Current ride on the backs of turtles all providing narrative counterpoint to the Great Escape-themed action of the dental surgery. The animation of details as subtle as the appearance of other liquids in seawater breaks new ground, and the voice cast and trademark humour (gulls that can only speak the word, 'mine', for example) afford still further pleasures for audiences of all ages.