It's a funny story, with lots of sight gags, and both Brooks and DeGeneres are hilarious, but this is also a touching story and it's got an honest heart that will reach out to you. Part of that heart is found with the underlying story of being able to ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at The Gate.ca (W. Andrew Powell)
Jigsaw Lounge (Neil Young)
Finding Nemopresents a tough task for any reviewer, and film critics may feel like seagulls pecking at a particularly stubborn limpet: the damn thing is so well made as to be air-tight. This is the sixth computer-generated animated feature made by ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at Jigsaw Lounge (Neil Young)
Gorilla Pants (Melissa Prusi)
At the start of the movie, Marlin, voiced by Albert Brooks, has just moved into a new home with his wife and hundreds of future children. Since it seems there can never be two living parents in a Disney movie, tragedy soon strikes and he is left as the ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at Gorilla Pants (Melissa Prusi)
The computer-animation firm has reaped riches for its distributor, Disney, by making the hits Toy Story, Toy Story II, A Bug's Life and Monsters, Inc. Now Pixar wants to redo its deal to net a bigger part of the box-office catch. But to do so it needs ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at Houston Chronicle
Als er sich jedoch breitschlagen lässt, und Nemo (gesprochen von Domenic Redl) den Schulbesuch gestattet, muss er hilflos mit ansehen, wie sein einziger überlebender Sprössling während eines Schulausfluges von Tauchern gefangen und entführt wird. ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at Cineclub-Filmkritik
DVD Net (Amy Flower)
Anyway, the name Pixar needs no introduction to animation fans, and after the massive successes of basically everything their computer mice have touched over the past near-decade, they really need no introduction to Joe and Josephine Public, either. ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at DVD Net (Amy Flower)
Barry Humphries (a.k.a. Dame Edna), Eric Bana, Bruce Spence are three sharks undergoing anger management therapy. (Four years in production, how coincidental that Anger Management bypassed Nemo in hoisting the amusing flag of this fretful condition upon ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at Nitrate Online (Elias Savada)
Flak Magazine (Andy Ross)
The humans portrayed in Finding Nemo are a big advance for computer animation, in that they have finally embraced stylization. Without caricaturization, computer-animated people look like clunky mannequins — the kid on the receiving end of Mike's ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at Flak Magazine (Andy Ross)
It’s hard not to think that the folks at Pixar Animation Studios have made a pact with the devil. This may seem a bit odd, considering the consistently family-friendly movies that they pump out (Toy Story, A Bug’s Life, Monsters, Inc.), but how else ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at Apollo Guide (Brian Webster)
Ultimate Guide to Disney DVD
Also, it’s hugely episodic. Now, I think episodic movies can be fun and interesting, so long as they don’t wear out their welcome. Nemo almost does, clocking in at 1 hour and 40 minutes. Shaving off some of the unrelated encounters that are strung ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at Ultimate Guide to Disney DVD
Cinescape
When Nemo tries to buck Marlin's fatherly control, the little fish is scooped up by a diver, who takes him to the decorative saltwater aquarium in a dentist's waiting room. The distraught Marlin sets off to rescue Nemo, although he's got only the ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at Cinescape
As with all of the Disney-Pixar releases, this one is preceded by a short film. This time it's Pixar's early classic "Knick Knack," a hilarious, four-minute cartoon about a snowman desperately trying to get out of a snowglobe. (The 1989 short has ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Guess the Gross
On his first day of school, Nemo and some friends swim to the edge of their coral reef. When dared to swim to a boat in the distance, the little clownfish begins to, when his father shows up. Marlin yells at Nemo to come back, but Nemo refuses to listen ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at Guess the Gross
"Finding Nemo" is undoubtedly a great family film and destined, I'm sure, to go down as a children's classic. Nevertheless, my own feelings about it are a bit more mixed than they were about Pixar's previous releases. Not that I wouldn't recommend ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at DVD Town (John J. Puccio)
In Review (Adam Suraf)
The Pixar movies are family films with plenty of adult humor that keeps the adults entertained and the kiddie’s wide-eyes with imaginative characters. The people behind the film take painstakingly precious time in perfecting even the tiniest joke or ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at In Review (Adam Suraf)
DVDActive (Chris Gould)
From a technical standpoint, Finding Nemo is one of the best animated films I’ve ever seen. Thankfully this technical excellence is backed by a solid story, great voice acting and a more than generous helping of humour. The DVDs themselves deliver ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at DVDActive (Chris Gould)
DVD MovieGuide
At the film’s start, we meet two clownfish: Marlin (Albert Brooks) and Coral (Elizabeth Perkins). They have babies on the way, but a barracuda attacks and apparently kills Coral and all the eggs except one. After Coral’s wish, Marlin names the sole ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at DVD MovieGuide
Reverse Shot
When I first saw the poster for The Matrix in 1999, I laughed, imagining its Agnès B.-gone-sci-fi campaign to be nothing more than a gussied-up look for Johnny Mnemonic Part II. “What is the Matrix?” it beckoned, and to be honest, I couldn’t have ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at Reverse Shot
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Taking us into a world seldom explored at length in animation ("The Little Mermaid," the whale sequence in "Pinocchio"), "Finding Nemo" submerges itself in water for an unusually amusing screenplay by director Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson and David ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
What a fun movie. “Finding Nemo” is magnificent to look at, like a trip to an electronic aquarium, in which every detail, from the biggest whale to the smallest floating speck, has been lavishly attended to and terrifically conceived. We get ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at Friday & Saturday Review
Latino Review
I love fish, to eat them that is. Let's face it, they taste good. I'm not big on fast food but when I hit a McDonald's restaurant "Fillet O' Fish" is usually on my mind. But after seeing Pixar's latest wonder "Finding Nemo" I may never look at ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at Latino Review
When you head off to the latest Pixar feature, you expect astonishingly fluid animation, dazzling dimensional detail, a rollicking pace that's a little too kinetic for small kids (maybe a little too kinetic for Indiana Jones movies), and a script packed ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at Slate (David Edelstein)
The film starts off in a depressing manner, depicting a barracuda finishing off the wife of a struggling clown fish and all but one of their 300 future children. The father, Marlin (Albert Brooks), treasures the lone surviving egg and raises it in a ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at Movie ram-blings (Ram Samudrala)
Pixar, which is in a distribution deal with Disney, probably the most valuable contract the Mouse House currently has, is consistently raising the bar for animated cinema with their amazing images (in one of the few moments I’ll praise CGI, it really ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at Xiibaro Productions (David Perry)
The story revolves around the clownfish Marlin (Albert Brooks), the overprotective father of little Nemo (Alexander Gould). Traumatized by an event that we get to witness at the beginning of the movie, Marlin tries to keep all harm from Nemo, but one ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at DVD Review e-zine
MovieEye.com (Frank Ochieng)
There are a few things that folks can definitely count on in life to happen: the onslaught of tedious taxes, the ridiculously high cost of living, and taking the inevitable eternal dirt nap once their number is up on this revolving planet. Of course ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at MovieEye.com (Frank Ochieng)
You can always count on a Pixar film to create loads of family fun as parents and children alike take some time off their busy schedules to enjoy another one of their features. They sure have a great record for it. They began with the surprise hit Toy ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at Movie-Vault.com (Joseph Kastner)
This film has many little stories -- but at its heart is that of a father and son, Marlin and Nemo. And they are clownfish living in the Great Barrier Reef. One day Marlin loses his wife and their several offsprings — the eggs. Except one which he ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at The Hindu
JoBlo's Movie Emporium ("JoBlo")
I don't know what it is about animation movies nowadays, but it seems as though the bar is always being set a little higher with each new installment, especially when it comes to those nutty folks over at Pixar (TOY STORY, A BUG'S LIFE, TOY STORY 2, ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at JoBlo's Movie Emporium ("JoBlo")
DVDnett.no
Oppdrag Nemo er Pixar Animation Studios’ femte animerte langfilm i samarbeid med Walt Disney Studios (og i skrivende stund ser det ut til å bli den siste i dette samarbeidet). Vi har etter hvert blitt bortskjemte med glitrende historier fortalt med ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at DVDnett.no
Younger children may be desturbed by scenes of violence against fish and a number of rather fierce and uglylooking fish, including three sharks ambivalent about eating other fish.While not Pixar's best effort, FINDING NEMO still beats any Disney ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at Mark R. Leeper
Shannon Patrick Sullivan
Review: Pixar indeed, virtually the entire animated film industry has basically settled back on a triedandtrue formula these days, relying not on narrative masterpieces but rather simple, archetypal stories. Their real attraction is the potent ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at Shannon Patrick Sullivan
Harvey S. Karten
Using the lead voices of Albert Brooks in the role of Marlin the clownfish, Alexander Gould's as Marlin's titular son, and Ellen DeGeneres as Dory, the female consultant, "Finding Nemo" takes place downunder in the nabe of the Great Barrier Reef not far ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at Harvey S. Karten
Steve Rhodes
Brooks's material isn't nearly as good as DeGeneres's. The best he ever gets is his ongoing joke that he's a clown fish who is constitutionally incapable of telling a funny joke. Whenever he attempts to tell one, he starts rambling and ends up losing ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at Steve Rhodes
Visually, the aquatic adventure is every bit as stunning as its predecessors. The vibrant undersea world and its colourful array of wildlife is impossibly dazzling. More drab are the unmemorable characters and the lumbering plot. Finding Nemo is ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at Tiscali UK
What is going on with these sea turtles," I asked that during The Filmsnobs Rockin' Summer Movie Preview in the description of Pixar's new tale Finding Nemo. Even for someone who has found wonder and amazement in every one of the products of John ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at The Filmsnobs (James Owen)
Shadows on the Wall (Rich Cline)
The latest stroke of genius from Disney-Pixar, this is an involving and gorgeously well-made underwater comic adventure that actually delves a bit deeper than their previous collaborations (Toy Story, Monsters Inc). The story is pure Disney: A nervous ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at Shadows on the Wall (Rich Cline)
CNN Showbiz (Paul Clinton)
This time the action takes place in the deep blue sea as we follow the adventures of a tiny clownfish named Marlin (voiced by Albert Brooks) and his young son Nemo (voiced by 9-year-old Alexander Gould). In the dog-eat-dog -- or in this case ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at CNN Showbiz (Paul Clinton)
Finding Nemo is considerably longer than the typical children's animated feature. While most run around 80-90 minutes, Nemo is a full 101 minutes. Fortunately, the movie makes good use of most of that time. The film also takes full advantage of its ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at Movie Habit (Matt Anderson)
Exclaim!
Though it’s not Pixar’s greatest writing achievement, Finding Nemo is an exceptional piece of visual brilliance from a company that’s changing animation forever. The enormously successful studio, which is quickly freeing itself from the clutches of ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at Exclaim!
"Finding Nemo" is going to make a big splash with young children. And parents or grandparents who dive in with them are likely to have a great time, too. This animated delight from Pixar, the makers of "Toy Story" and "Monsters Inc.," washes the screen ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at Christian Science Monitor
Finding Nemo is an enjoyable movie, and well worth a rental if you missed it at theaters. Hard-core fans will want to buy the DVD, not so much for the “clever” extra features, but for the crisp, vivid, presentation of the movie, regardless ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at Movie Habit (Marty Mapes)
Juicy Cerebellum (Alex Sandell)
While the creative teams behind 2D animated feature films such as Titan A.E. and Treasure Planet nearly bore their audiences to death with Star Wars inspired hokum and lousy pop songs, the team behind Finding Nemo remembers what once made 2D feature ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at Juicy Cerebellum (Alex Sandell)
Pixar's successful Toy Story films imagined alternate universes where children's greatest fantasies came to life. Monsters, Inc. went one further by contemplating a more symbiotic relationship between children and their nightmares. Pixar's ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at Slant Magazine
Set in the Great Barrier Reef near Australia, the overly protective Marlin the clownfish (Brooks) keeps a close watch on his sole progeny, Nemo (Gould). But how you gonna keep ’em in the anemones once they’ve seen the bottom of the ocean floor? This ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at hybridmagazine.com
CinemaZone.dk
Find Nemo er historien om far og søn, og der tages hul på emnet allerede i åbningsscenen. Klovnefiskene Marlin og Clara er henrykte over den kommende børneflok, men lykken er kort. En stor og styg kæmpefisk gør det af med Marlins store kærlighed ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at CinemaZone.dk
filethirteen.com
"Finding Nemo" has been described by some at Pixar as "Bambi" underwater and that comparison seems accurate. The film begins with one of the most sorrowful and teary introductions ever seen in a cartoon. The angst and neurosis of the main character, ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at filethirteen.com
There isn't a much better choice for the neurotic lead character of Marlin than Albert Brooks. After a career of playing whiny, self-absorbed humans, here is a chance for Brooks to play a fish with the same attributes. Brooks gives the role his all and ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at Moda Magazine (Brian Orndorf)
Als alleinerziehender Vater hat man es nicht immer einfach, besonders wenn der Nachwuchs nicht hören will. Das gilt auch in der Welt der Clownfische. So muss sich der stets etwas überbesorgte Marlin nach dem Tod seiner Frau ganz allein um die Erziehung ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at DigitalVD.de (Nils Laschet)
Comingsoon.net
Marlin is a clown fish living in the Great Barrier Reef off of Australia. After having lost his wife and most of his kids in a barracuda attack, he’s extremely protective of his only surviving son, Nemo. Nemo and Marlin love each other, but Nemo has ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at Comingsoon.net
Comingsoon.net
I’ve always loved the ocean and sea creatures. I’ve even kept a saltwater tank with a clown fish and anemone. Based on that familiarity, I think I was even more open to the sea life jokes than others might be. The seagulls, hated by many, are a ...read the complete Finding Nemo movie review at Comingsoon.net