Found Classic! One of the best animated films in years!

Rating: Null/10 (2 June 2003)

FINDING NEMO (2003) **** (VOICES OF: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould, Willem Dafoe, Geoffrey Rush, Allison Janney, Austin Pendleton, Brad Garrett, Vicki Lewis, Stephen Root, Joe Ranft, Barry Humphries, Eric Bana, Andrew Stanton, Elizabeth Perkins, Nicholas Bird, Bruce Spence, Bill Hunter, Jordan Ranft, Erica Beck, Erik Per Sullivan, John Ratzenberger). Wonderfully enchanting animated instant classic from the geniuses at Pixar keep their winning streak alive with this remarkably lively tale about life under the sea and focusing on neurotic clownfish Marlin (ably voiced by Brooks in full panic mode) whose overprotective parenting gets the best of him when his only off-spring Nemo (Gould) winds up in the net of a diver from Australia, thus sending him on an incredible journey to reunite with his progeny. On hand to aid him is the dotty blue fish Dory (DeGeneres who is pitch-perfect hilarious and steals the show) whose positive sunny disposition is only circumvented by her consistent short-term memory loss making it a bumpy ride along.
Fun for the entire family with some serious belly-laughs of one-liners and sight gags that deserve a second viewing to get them all. Kudos to Stanton (who co-directs with Lee Unkrich and voices a surfer-dude sea turtle dad) who co-wrote with Bob Peterson and David Reynolds the cleverly antic script. ). But it is the amazing visuals conceived via CGI that proves groundbreaking in capturing the absolute FEELING of being in the ocean's murky depths and uncharted splendor. One of the year's best and most entertaining animated films ever made.