Visually appealing, but too long for the story

Rating: 5/10 (10 December 2004)

The people who spent years of their lives putting Finding Nemo together did an absolutely wonderful job at their keyboards, and during their on-site investigation of what the ocean looks like.
Also, I found the voice actors did a commendable job, although I'm never sure how much is the actors, and how much is the animators synching and designing the characters who go with those voices.
I did, however, find that this story was dragged out WAY too long for what it was. I imagine that Disney requires most of their animated features to involve everyone looking for a single character, or a character finding him/herself, but there really wasn't much going on in this film that would have been lost had it been condensed into an hour, or even 45 minutes. I may have been drawn in at some point, but had to sit there too long to stay involved.
I think that children will find the characters fun and cute enough to thoroughly enjoy the film, however, although at this point I'm probably the only person who hadn't seen this picture. Now if I would just rent Titanic ...
Take care.