Not Pixar's best

Rating: 5/10 (11 June 2003)

I love the Toy Story movies and enjoyed Monsters Inc., so I was looking forward to Finding Nemo. Unfortunately, Nemo was not nearly as enjoyable as Pixar's other fine movies.
I found very few genuine laughs in Nemo. I thought Dory, a fish with short term memory, was cute and had a few funny moments, but otherwise the movie fell flat. A lot of the jokes were just not funny. Some of the characters were your typical run of the mill cartoon characters, such as the 'surfer-dude' turtle, which I could have done without.
Technically, Nemo looks great. The visuals are good. But, I can't help thinking with the whole underwater world that they could not come up with more dazzling characters other than shark, turtle, whale, etc...

The bottom line is that Nemo is a pretty movie that ends up feeling empty with very few laughs and flat characters. I give it a 5 out of 10.