Great Disney fun! One of the best, of late.

Rating: 9/10 (25 December 2003)

Finding Nemo was a sheer delight, comparable to Lilo and Stitch, but made more like Toy Story. Pixar has really accomplished a classic telling with this one.
Nemo is a small clown fish who is the sole survivor of his clutch. His only living family is his father, as his mother was eaten while defending her clutch of eggs. As a result, his father is a complete almost non-functioning paranoid who would be happy to just live inside his anemone with his sun, and never venture out for anything.
This, of course, does not set well with his son, who is your average, adventurous child in every way but one; he has a deformity which gives his paranoid father all the excuses he needs to closet his child and keep him from the world.
Stolen from his father's loving and watchful eye by divers (probably American, one of the other fish proclaims) Nemo is taken into the world of humans and deposited inside an aquarium where he will be given as a present to Darla the Fish Killer.
Meanwhile, his father races after the boat, loses the trail and must rely on the assistance of Dory, she of the short term memory loss. Ellen DeGeneres as Dory, literally steals the show with her dialog and lines which are hilariously funny.
Marlin the clown fish hunts after his son for weeks, swimming hundreds of miles in search of his lost son.
I highly recommend this movie to anyone who needs a good laugh, and a good shot of wholesome Disney. I was a bit taken aback by the anti-American line in this movie, considering it IS an American production AND Disney, to boot, but I suppose it is just Disney's little jibe at those who would blame America for everything, when it turns out an Australian was the one who stole Nemo, after all. *shrugs* I don't know, but it did not sit well with me. But it was just one line, and the rest of the movie was wonderful.
It rates an 8.9/10 from...
the Fiend :.