Hmmm...

Rating: 7/10 (14 May 2004)

Good but not great. I have finally seen this film after much hype and I have to confess to being a little disappointed; whilst the animation is truly spectacular, the plot is flimsy and the characters (on the whole) lack genuine depth. Of course there are places where you will laugh aloud but the humour is too visual to be truly funny and the schmaltzy sentimentality that seems to pervade 90% of all children's films now made cannot be escaped from here either. To be honest, Dory is a 'one-joke' fish and the surfer-dude gag is lame horse, overdone in comedy to the point of boredom. That said, Albert Brookes is fantastic as Nemo's father and I loved the cameos from Willem Dafoe and Barry Humphries. I was expecting more - 7/10.