Ray as Mr. Ray voice. Barry Humphries Bruce as Bruce voice. Eric Bana Anchor as Anchor voice. Bruce Spence Chum as Chum voice. Andrew Stanton Lee Unkrich. Andrew Stanton original story by screenplay by Bob Peterson screenplay by David Reynolds screenplay by. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. A clown fish named Marlin lives in the Great Barrier Reef and loses his son, Nemo, after he ventures into the open sea, despite his father's constant warnings about many of the ocean's dangers.
Nemo is abducted by a boat and netted up and sent to a dentist's office in Sydney. While Marlin ventures off to try to retrieve Nemo, Marlin meets a fish named Dory, a blue tang suffering from short-term memory loss.
The companions travel a great distance, encountering various dangerous sea creatures such as sharks, anglerfish and jellyfish, in order to rescue Nemo from the dentist's office, which is situated by Sydney Harbour. While the two are searching the ocean far and wide, Nemo and the other sea animals in the dentist's fish tank plot a way to return to the sea to live their lives free again.
That's a lot of space to find one fish. Animation Adventure Comedy Family. Did you know Edit. Trivia Andrew Stanton pitched his idea and story to Pixar head John Lasseter in an hour-long session, using elaborate visual aids and character voices. At the end of it, an exhausted Stanton asked Lasseter what he thought, to which Lasseter replied, "You had me at 'fish.
Goofs Marlin and Dory are advised to swim to the back of the whale's throat and to be blown out of the whale's blowhole. This is not physically possible as whales mouths and digestive systems are not connected to their respiratory system and blowhole. Quotes Dory : I shall call him Squishy and he shall be mine and he shall be my Squishy. Alternate versions In the 3D re-release the old Disney logo is replaced with the new Disney logo and the Pixar logo that was used in the 3D version of Up Those familiar with these two fine comedic talents in their live-action performances will actually be able to see many of their distinctive inflections and facial expressions reflected in the animated characters they are portraying.
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Trust Seal. She asks him to stay with her and that her memory is better when he's around, that she doesn't want to forget. Marlin refuses and swims away, leaving her alone. Nemo emerges from the piping and calls out for his father. He finds Dory swimming confusedly under a buoy, saying that she's lost someone but can't remember. Nemo offers to search with her, and Dory happily complies, though she doesn't recognize him. As they swim together, Dory comes upon a piece of piping and reads "Sydney" on it.
Suddenly, all of her memories come back to her, and she rushes at Nemo, hugging him fiercely, before leading him in the direction Marlin went. They find out that Marlin headed towards fishing grounds and reunite with him amongst a large school of grouper.
The school of fish then cries out in panic as a large net from a fishing trawler above envelopes them. Dory is caught up in the netting, and Nemo says that he must swim in and instruct the fish to swim down. Though Marlin fears for Nemo's safety, he lets go and allows Nemo to do what he can. Marlin instructs the panicked fish from outside the net and they all soon start swimming in synch downwards. The fishermen investigate and realize that the net is being pulled in the other direction.
Dory, Nemo and the grouper push the net towards the bottom until it finally snaps away from the boat, freeing all the fish. Marlin and Dory find Nemo under the heavy netting - Marlin is stricken with grief, believing Nemo is dead. Nemo regains consciousness, and Marlin gently tells him that he found out that sea turtles live to be years old. Marlin and Nemo come to an understanding, and all three go back to their home in the reef.
Marlin's demeanor has changed for the better, and he is more upbeat and confident in his son's abilities. He takes him to school, where Dory is dropped off by Bruce, Anchor, and Chum, who have included Dory in their vegetarian program. Nemo hugs his father before heading off on another field trip with Mr. Marlin watches them leave, knowing that his son will be alright.
Back at the dental office in Sydney, the dentist curses the high-tech filter, which has suddenly stopped working despite having a maintenance-free lifetime guarantee. He complains about having to clean the fish tank himself and put all the fish in bags but notices that they have mysteriously disappeared from the counter.
Horns honk out the open window as Peach is the last to cross the street and land herself in the harbor with the other fish. As they float in their baggies, unable to escape confinement, Bloat asks, "Now what? In a post-credits scene, the tiny fish that was Chum's "friend" at the support group is stalked by the anglerfish.
As the anglerfish moves in to swallow him, the tiny fish suddenly opens his enormous mouth and swallows the angler. The inspiration for Nemo was made up of multiple experiences. The idea goes back to when director Andrew Stanton was a child when he loved going to the dentist to see the fish tank, assuming that the fish were from the ocean and wanted to go home.
In shortly after his son was born, he and his family took a trip to Six Flags Discovery Kingdom which was called Marine World at the time. There, he saw the shark tube and various exhibits he felt that the underwater world could be done beautifully in computer animation. Later, in he took his son for a walk in the park but found that he was over protecting him constantly and lost an opportunity to have any "father-son experiences" on that day. In an interview with National Geographic magazine, he stated that the idea for the characters of Marlin and Nemo came from a photograph of two clownfish peeking out of an anemone: "It was so arresting.
I had no idea what kind of fish they were, but I couldn't take my eyes off them. And as an entertainer, the fact that they were called clownfish—it was perfect. There's almost nothing more appealing than these little fish that want to play peekaboo with you. Pre-production of the film took place in early Stanton began writing the screenplay during the post-production of A Bug's Life.
As such, it began production with a complete screenplay, something that co-director Lee Unkrich called "very unusual for an animated film. The idea for the initiation sequence came from a story conference between Andrew Stanton and Bob Peterson while driving to record the actors.
Ellen DeGeneres was cast after Stanton was watching Ellen with his wife and seeing Ellen "change the subject five times before finishing one sentence" as Stanton recalled. There was a pelican character known as Gerald who in the final film ends up swallowing and choking on Marlin and Dory who was originally a friend of Nigel.
They were going to play against each other as Nigel being neat fastidious while Gerald being scruffy and sloppy. However, the filmmakers could not find an appropriate scene for them that didn't slow the pace of the picture down, so Gerald's character was minimized. Stanton himself provided the voice of Crush the sea turtle.
Stanton originally did the voice for the film's story reel and assumed they would find an actor later. When Stanton's performance was popular in test screenings, Stanton decided to keep his performance in the film. Stanton recorded all his dialogue while lying on a sofa in co-director Lee Unkrich 's office. According to Stanton, the elder Bird was playing a tape recording of his young son around the Pixar studios one day.
Stanton felt the voice was "this generation's Thumper " and immediately cast Nicholas. Megan Mullally revealed that she was originally doing a voice in the film.
The producers hired her anyway, and then strongly encouraged her to use her Karen Walker voice for the role. When Mullally refused, she was dismissed. The film would be released for the first time on Blu-ray and Blu-ray 3D on December 4, , with both a 3-disc and a 5-disc set. Finding Nemo was a major success. Roger Ebert gave the film four stars, calling it "one of those rare movies where I wanted to sit in the front row and let the images wash out to the edges of my field of vision.
The film's use of clownfish prompted mass purchase of the animal as pets in the United States, even though the movie portrayed the use of fish as pets negatively and suggested that saltwater aquariums are notably tricky and expensive to maintain. The demand for clownfish was supplied by large-scale harvesting of tropical fish in regions like Vanuatu. At the same time, the film had a quote that "all drains lead back to the ocean " Nemo escapes from the aquarium by going down a sink drain, ending up in the sea.
Since water typically undergoes treatment before leading to the ocean, the JWC Environmental company quipped that a more realistic title for the movie might be Grinding Nemo. However, in Sydney, much of the sewer system does pass directly to outfall pipes deep offshore, without a high level of treatment although pumping and some filtering occur.
Additionally, according to the DVD, there was a cut sequence with Nemo going through a treatment plant's mechanisms before ending up in the ocean pipes. However, in the final product, logos for "Sydney Water Treatment" are featured prominently along the path to the ocean, implying that Nemo did pass through some water treatment.
Tourism in Australia strongly increased during the summer and autumn of , with many tourists wanting to swim off the coast of Eastern Australia to "find Nemo". Queensland also used Finding Nemo to draw tourists to promote its state for vacationers.
On the 3-D re-release, Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly wrote that its emotional power was deepened by "the dimensionality of the oceanic deep" where "the spatial mysteries of watery currents and floating worlds are exactly where 3-D explorers were born to boldly go. After the re-release of The Lion King in , it stands as the fourth highest-grossing animated film in these regions. Worldwide, it now ranks fifth among animated films. The film had impressive box-office runs in many international markets.
Nemo's dad is protective sometimes overly , loving, and determined when it comes to finding his son. He makes mistakes, but he learns from them. Nemo is brave and sometimes defiant and learns lessons about working together. He doesn't let his disability slow him down. Scary creatures with lots of very sharp teeth, the apparent death of a major character, and many tense scenes with characters in peril. In the short film Knick Knack , which appears on some DVDs, the female characters have exaggerated breasts.
Though there aren't any real brands used in the movie itself, this is part of the Disney-Pixar dynasty, with plenty of merchandise associated with the film. The sharks attend a step-type of meeting to get them to stop eating fish, but only adults will get the reference.
Parents need to know that even though there are no traditional bad guys in Finding Nemo , there are still some very scary moments, including large creatures with zillions of sharp teeth, the apparent death of a major character, and many tense scenes with characters in peril. And at the very beginning of the movie, Marlin's wife and all but one of their eggs are eaten by a predator -- a scene that could very well upset little kids.
Expect a little potty humor amid the movie's messages of teamwork, determination, loyalty, and a father's never-ending love for his son.
The issue of Nemo's stunted fin is handled exceptionally well -- matter-of-factly but frankly. Add your rating See all parent reviews. Add your rating See all kid reviews. When it's time for Marlin's surviving son, Nemo Alexander Gould -- who has an underdeveloped fin -- to start school, the little guy is excited, but Marlin is terrified.
Marlin has done a good job of making Nemo feel confident and unselfconscious, but he's still overprotective, which makes Nemo anxious to prove that he can take care of himself. But Marlin's worst fears are realized when Nemo is captured by a deep-sea-diving dentist who collects fish for his aquarium.
On a journey that will introduce him to extraordinary characters and teach him a great deal about the world and even more about himself, Marlin must go literally to the end of the ocean to find his son and bring him home. On the way he meets Dory Ellen DeGeneres , a cheerful blue tang who has a problem with short-term memory loss.
They search for Nemo together in the face of stinging jellyfish, exploding mines, and creatures with many, many, teeth. Meanwhile, Nemo makes some very good friends in the dentist's aquarium, including a tough tiger fish Willem Dafoe who helps him plan an escape. Pixar may have the most advanced animation technology in the world, but they never forget that what matters most in a movie is story, characters, imagination, and heart.
Finding Nemo has it all. Yes, it's a visual feast the play of light on the water is breathtaking , but above all it's an epic journey filled with adventure and discovery that encompasses the grandest sweep of ocean vastness and the smallest longing of the heart. While preserving the characters' essential "fishy-ness," Pixar and the talented voice actors have also made them each wonderfully expressive.
While there are certainly some terrifying-looking creatures and scary moments in Finding Nemo -- including the off-screen death of Marlin's wife and future children -- there really are no bad guys here; the danger comes from a child's thoughtlessness and from natural perils. And there are no angry, jealous, greedy, or murderous villains as in most traditional Disney animated films.
One of the movie's best jokes is that even the toothy sharks are so friendly that, in an AA-style program, they keep reminding one another that "fish are friends, not food. But best of all is the way it addresses questions that are at the heart of the parent-child relationship, giving everyone in the audience something to relate to and learn from. Families can talk about how parents have to balance their wish to protect their children from being hurt physically or emotionally with the need to let them grow up and learn how to take care of themselves, like Marlin has to in Finding Nemo.
Kids: How do your parents handle this?
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