downright boring

Rating: 5/10 (21 November 2003)

No, I'm not an animation hater or nonsensitive to sentimental scenes, I loved Shrek. But Finding Nemo never caught me. The colors were dull bright like from a detergent commercial and the characters were flat and not convincing. The plot was hasty and as flat as the characters.

*semi-spoilers*
What is the point about vegetarian sharks? It seemed, yes, silly. Or did they satirize some prominent vegetarian US activists I don't know of? The blue fish that came with Marlin was not funny but nerving because the jokes were too blunt. What was this weird underwater jet, that does not exist this way, needed for? Also, we would have understood that man is evil (or unnatural; dumb, regarding to nature) without giving the human characters such an awkward wooden appearance. All this important details were so unnecessary that they appeared arbitrary, far too far-fetched, not well reconsidered and therefore disturbing.
Probably not intended but nevertheless fitting to the educational mission Walt Disney productions often suffer of: the sledgehammer moral. This time: "Trust the abilities of your kid, otherwise you will be in trouble". Is okay but in this movie again, administered with the club.
I don't need to mention the animations: but for the colors and the wooden humans brilliant! Excellent, excellent realistic animal movement, absolutely stunning. This made the movie worth watching for me. The plot and the characters, alas, remained underdeveloped.
5 out of 10