Entertaining, but not HIGH CLASS Disney stuff

Rating: 7/10 (20 November 2004)

While Nemo certainly entertains it is in no way a classic. In fact, disregarding 'A Bugs Life' I think it is the worst collaboration between Pixar and Disney. While watching the film, I felt that the emotional depth of the events could have been explored a lot more and I also felt that the film was not as funny as other animated films I've seen. To be honest, I felt that there wasn't that much magic around this time. I found Dory to be the most annoying fish ever (I can safely say that she wasn't funny 5 % of the time and annoying 95%) and frankly I felt that the other characters weren't too good either. I mean I liked Nemo and Gill and I thought everything with Crush in it was pretty cool, but in the end I felt that the majority of the characters just were NOT likable and cute enough. Also the film seemed to suffer from the lack of a true villain. All in all, this is an entertaining film, your kids will truly enjoy, but as far as adults are concerned, this one might have fared better if there would have been more magic, better characters and maybe even a shorter running time. Not the MUST-SEE it is made out to be and certainly not one of Disney's best. Well certainly it won an Oscar, but hey, when was the last time THAT meant something, not to mention that from what I've heard there wasn't much competition (as in "the other 2!!! films had even less quality).
7 out of 10
post scriptum: I rented the 2-DVD set and must say that the animated short "Exploring the Reef" is even worse than Finding Nemo itself (a small 6 out of 10), thus making the animated short "Knick Knack" (bigger 7 out of 10 than NEMO) from 1989 the best thing (in more than one way) on the 2 discs