Cute and will sell toys

Rating: 5/10 (26 January 2004)

A cute movie, but I'm surprised at some of the compliments lavished on it. It didn't seem very original and was inferior to "Shrek" for example, which was a very enjoyable (sort of an ice-breaker) animated film. Not to mention more honestly fantasical stirring stuff like "Spirited Away" for that matter.
"Finding Nemo" also wasn't particularly funny since it's main joke of making fun of someone with short term memory loss grew tired quickly.
I'll admit I was touched when the cute Nemo got reunited with his Dad (of course!), but some aspect of the movie had an overly (to me) manufactured sense to it. But this is just imo of course, and I'm probably a bit biased since (before watching the movie) I saw the enormous amount and variation of nifty Nemo merchandise with the necessary huge cast of marine creatures. The sea's the limit.