Stotyline = A+ Cin. = A+ Characters = F-

Rating: 2/10 (28 March 2015)

Oh I so want to give this piece of work 1 star. It is ONLY for the outstanding cinematography and the really creative science fiction story concepts that allows me to give it 2 whole stars (and not a penny more)!!
PROS: 1. The cinematography was outstanding and very artistic. I am sure award worthy.
2. The story line is very creative and clever.
3. I will even say how good Ledo & some of the other acting skills were as a pro. As they technically did NOT write the script, they only adapted the script for their character. And this goes back to #2.the script.
CONS:
Although the story line is very clever, the script – and more so the characters, was hard to actually sit through, let alone enjoy. I couldn't stand (to the point of disdain and contempt) MOST of the characters there!
I felt sorry for and liked the father. I felt for the Asian wife who really loved Nemo but he didn't care for her. And the children in the film (including Nemo) were likable and cool. Outside of that, I hated this film.
First off, I detest romance – which is all this film basically was. 2ndly, and more importantly, I couldn't stand most of the characters – which is the fault of the writer not the actors. The characters were extremely unlikable.
The mother was repulsively selfish and EXTREMELY unlikable. The fact that Nemo unfortunately chose his mom (in 1 time line) was a huge mistake from thence on out. She was an extremely selfish horrifically poor mother.
The irritating depressed wife was totally annoying and Nemo's total and completed irresponsibleness and stupidity to refuse to get her the help she needed at the loony bin to allow her the opportunity to be a decent mother (which she wished to be but was unable to do because Nemo allowed his kids to suffer from embarrassment and his wife to suffer in her depression) because he was too incompetent to get her help! For that, Nemo was unlikable in this time line!
AND even more um-likable is his time-line to his marriage to the Asian wife. Even though she was a sloppy second rebound to the blond loony who he really wanted, she truly loved him. She showed him patience and seemingly bends over backwards to work with him. He however totally disregarded her, did not appreciate her, and even had the nerve to become suicidal, leave her and his entire family, and get killed. This is the ultimate form of insult. Nemo is basically saying that he is so unhappy with his successful, beautiful, loving, Asian wife and kids that he not only leaves them but becomes an extreme irresponsible risk taker, totally irrational, and suicidal – in which he succeeds. And this makes Nemo even more ungrateful and thus unlikable.
Even the secondary and background characters were selfish, silly, annoying, or stupid at best. The retarded reporter who sneaked into the hospital room, asked the most ignorant questions (that he obviously never once picked up a book or whatever to research before hand). And he didn't understand much of what old Nemo said. Yes, Nemo's interview was full of contradictions, but even so, the reporter didn't understand the most basic way of life of the people of the past. A way of life he could have easily brushed up on en route to sneak into the hospital for this interview.
And lastly, that super annoying, Hunger Games wanna be clown with the same irritating MC style as Caesar Flickerman. Now am I to assume that this MC is supposed to be just as annoying, goofy, insensitive, inhumane, and annoying as Hunger Games' Caesar Flickerman or is this just another failed attempt at writing and building a likable character - that became unlikeable.
Perhaps if the screen writer made the characters more likable and able and able to be cared about, then the film with it's amazing sci-fi story line and cinematography would be much better. But again, I'm just one person. Maybe others loved these annoying, inconsiderate, selfish characters which annoyed me I couldn't enjoy the film.
After all, the characters make the film.