This turns out to be a Sydney dentist who has snaffled poor little Nemo for the tropical fish tank in his consulting room. So Marlin, the adorable widower whom you long to protect just as he cossets his boy, takes Nemo to his first day at school, and is appalled to learn that they are going on a science trip to the ”drop-off”: the place where their enclosed little Coral Reef bio-habitat opens on to the blue abyss of the ocean.ĭefiantly Nemo swims out to a boat just to rebel against his dad and is immediately kidnapped by a frogman whose looming humanness is more terrifying than any sea-beast. He is excessively concerned about his son because Nemo’s mother and all his siblings were wiped out over some years before by a villainous shark. Nemo is a little fish kid whose overprotective dad, Marlin, is perfectly voiced by Albert Brooks, that prince of good-natured anxiety. They live in the measureless depths of the ocean off the Australian coast in an extraordinary CGI world of hyperreal detail and extraterrestrial light - where is that light coming from?Įverything is as dazzling as you might expect. As ever, there are wacky creatures of all shapes and sizes: a ragtag platoon of amiable attitudes and comedy voices. Like Monsters Inc and the Toy Stories, Finding Nemo is set in a vivid, surreal secret world - right under the noses of us humans, but we don’t know it’s there.
Self-congratulation this may be, but it’s well deserved and how very pleasurable to see again the traditional little sequence that precedes even the short: the hopping angle-poise lamp whose final direct stare at the viewer always causes a twinge.
The effect is clearly to impress upon us the filmmakers’ sense of their own breathtaking contemporary sophistication with a little instant, celebratory ancestor-worship. As ever with a glistening new offering from Pixar Animation, the main event is preceded by a relatively simple short film: dredged up, or possibly reconstructed, from Pixar’s past. Quality family entertainment is what the outstanding animation Finding Nemo delivers.
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