Lotus666
06-08-09, 10:07 PM
Another one from me in late 2003...
Brilliant...
Well...I've seen the movie last Sunday with TB & Chaser!
Pixar Animation stands accused of churning out the "same old" stuff. I say - if it works, then why not. In conjunction with Disney, "Finding Nemo" is not quite as good as "Monsters Inc.", but near enough.
I thoroughly enjoyed this movie for the 100 minutes it kept me sitting enthralled in the cinema.
Nemo is the son of Marlin (a fish with a seemingly justified fear of the wide open sea), who shelters his son from both danger and fun alike. (There is a reason for this - but to tell would spoil the opening sequence of the movie.)
They live on The Great Barrier Reef (just off the north coast of my ex-home state of Queensland). On Nemo's very first day of school, he is snatched by a diver...and Marlin sets out to find him. To get there, however...he has to travel to Sydney Harbour - a long trek for one small fish in an ocean full of predators looking for their next snack!
Along the way - he overcomes his own fears, meets up with very unusual sharks, navigates through the hazards of a deadly jellyfish field, discovers the true age of turtles (!), shoots the rapids of the East Australian Current, and makes new and unexpected friends...but most of all - he finds Nemo!
Nemo, whilst all this is going on down in the deep...finds himself in the company of a strange band of friends inside the dentist's tank in his surgery...and some good laughs of a dental nature is to be had in these scenes. They plot their escape...whilst outside a whacky bunch of pelicans...and a flock of blankly disturbing seagulls - seek fresh fish to satisfy their piscean cravings! (The seagulls eyes are modelled on Feathers McGraw from the Wallace and Grommit shorts...and their cries of "mine" really cracked me up!)
Filled with delightfully memorable characters...a dipsy fish named Dory (Ellen DeGeneres), a fair dinkum aussie shark named Bruce (adult joke reference to the nickname for the rubber shark in Jaws - voiced by Barry Humphries), a tank-weary fish called Gill (Willem Dafoe), and an aussie dentist (which I found particularly amusing having a dentist for a husband as the references made were quite accurate) voiced by Bill Hunter, with a niece called Darla, who makes sharks look like your friendly Aunt Mary! (The music that accompanies Darla's entry is a pastiche of Bernard Hermann's score for Hitchcock's Psycho.) This is one scary kid, I tell you!!!
You must check out the IMDB information and trivia on this one - very interesting. The animation is sheer magic (some of the underwater coral scenes are just too lovely to describe and do justice to). Kept me glued to the screen, and chuckling all the way through. Well worth the watch, and am adding this to my list of Disney movies I would like to own.
I happily give this movie eight fishies out of 10!
Brilliant...
Well...I've seen the movie last Sunday with TB & Chaser!
Pixar Animation stands accused of churning out the "same old" stuff. I say - if it works, then why not. In conjunction with Disney, "Finding Nemo" is not quite as good as "Monsters Inc.", but near enough.
I thoroughly enjoyed this movie for the 100 minutes it kept me sitting enthralled in the cinema.
Nemo is the son of Marlin (a fish with a seemingly justified fear of the wide open sea), who shelters his son from both danger and fun alike. (There is a reason for this - but to tell would spoil the opening sequence of the movie.)
They live on The Great Barrier Reef (just off the north coast of my ex-home state of Queensland). On Nemo's very first day of school, he is snatched by a diver...and Marlin sets out to find him. To get there, however...he has to travel to Sydney Harbour - a long trek for one small fish in an ocean full of predators looking for their next snack!
Along the way - he overcomes his own fears, meets up with very unusual sharks, navigates through the hazards of a deadly jellyfish field, discovers the true age of turtles (!), shoots the rapids of the East Australian Current, and makes new and unexpected friends...but most of all - he finds Nemo!
Nemo, whilst all this is going on down in the deep...finds himself in the company of a strange band of friends inside the dentist's tank in his surgery...and some good laughs of a dental nature is to be had in these scenes. They plot their escape...whilst outside a whacky bunch of pelicans...and a flock of blankly disturbing seagulls - seek fresh fish to satisfy their piscean cravings! (The seagulls eyes are modelled on Feathers McGraw from the Wallace and Grommit shorts...and their cries of "mine" really cracked me up!)
Filled with delightfully memorable characters...a dipsy fish named Dory (Ellen DeGeneres), a fair dinkum aussie shark named Bruce (adult joke reference to the nickname for the rubber shark in Jaws - voiced by Barry Humphries), a tank-weary fish called Gill (Willem Dafoe), and an aussie dentist (which I found particularly amusing having a dentist for a husband as the references made were quite accurate) voiced by Bill Hunter, with a niece called Darla, who makes sharks look like your friendly Aunt Mary! (The music that accompanies Darla's entry is a pastiche of Bernard Hermann's score for Hitchcock's Psycho.) This is one scary kid, I tell you!!!
You must check out the IMDB information and trivia on this one - very interesting. The animation is sheer magic (some of the underwater coral scenes are just too lovely to describe and do justice to). Kept me glued to the screen, and chuckling all the way through. Well worth the watch, and am adding this to my list of Disney movies I would like to own.
I happily give this movie eight fishies out of 10!