Impossible not to love it!!

Rating: 9/10 (23 December 2003)

The story itself is rather simple, but both the humor and the graphical presentation of "Finding Nemo" make it implossible not to simply love it!
From a "nerd" kind of perspective I'm really amazed about the way they captured the fluid dynamics in this film: trying to model flowing and streaming water is virtually impossible and yet the waves and the flow of the ocean, streams etc. etc. are represented life-like!

A different angle of reviewing the movie is not looking at the technical highlights, but at the way the different characters are developed. Whether it be fish, whales, shrimp, sea-gulls and turtles ("You've got a serious thrill issue, dude!") they are all depicted in a unique way. But also in a way that allows us to related to them: they've been brought down to the stereo-types we are inclined to see them as.
Ofcourse, if a movie wants to appeal to a large audience, it cannot be focussed only on graphical superbness, or only on the funniest characters you've ever seen. But to combine all these qualities in a film, without selling any of them short in the way that is done in Finding Nemo, will be hard to beat in the year(s) to come!