This is one genre of movies, which has no boundary or restriction as far as viewership is concerned. Animated movies are becoming popular and are starting to become a successful box office hits. From the creators of Toy Story, A Bug’s Life and Monsters Inc, Disney/Pixar, here comes another winner "Finding Nemo".
It all starts when a Clown Fish couple Marlin (Albert Brooks) & Coral make a family and await a big colony of babies (eggs) to hatch. Disaster strikes when a large hungry barracuda finds out the colony, and Marlin loses consciousness in the fight. When he regains consciousness he finds both Martha and the babies (eggs) all gone. But he finds one egg in a dark corner. He names it Nemo (Alexander Gould) as wished by his wife. From then he becomes overprotective about Nemo. Adding to that is Nemo’s damaged right fin.
Marlin’s over protectiveness comes in the way of Nemo’s freedom, childhood inquisitiveness and his standing among his friends in school. In the process to prove his ability, Nemo gets captured by a scuba diver and ends up in a Dentist’s fish tank somewhere near Sydney.
Nemo finds himself with Peach (Allison Janney)-star fish, Bloat (Brad Garett)-Blowfish, another fin-damaged Angel Fish and the group’s leader, Gill (William Dafoe). Gill was trying to escape the tank and go to the ocean for ages and sees Nemo as a god sent key for his escape.
With the pair of scuba goggles which was dropped by the diver, now paranoid Marlin breaks his fear of the ocean and sets to search for his son. He meets a forgetful blue tang fish, Dory (Ellen DeGeneres) who speaks ’’Whale’’ and who happens to read ’’English’’. Dory is so forgetful she often asks Marlin who he is!! They meet a school of trout who are masters in synchronized sign language, a vicious deep sea hunter with a light bulb(!) in his head (dunno what fish it is!!!), a field of forgotten human sea-mines and a trio of sharks named Bruce (Barry Humphries), Anchor (Eric Bana) and Chum (Bruce Spence). The best part is the trio are on ’’no-fish-anymore’’ resolution!! When they land up in a life-zapping loads of floating jellyfish, Dory gets to remember quite a few things including the address!!. After that they meet the cool-dude Crush (director/screenwriter Stanton), a surfer-dude sea turtle and his group who show them the way to Sydney through the ocean current.
Here Nemo & co manage to escape with a un-common friend’s help, Nigel, a brown pelican. And father and son meet finally to make an emotional scene in the whole movie.
Now the Analysis
1. Story : 5/5
Beautiful and authentic story board. Nothing more nothing less. Full marks for that. It justs keep you glued to your seat.
2. Plot : 4/5
The plot is beautifully laid and the twists and turns and events leading into one another shows the careful weaving. The only slight glitch I thought was the last scene when Gill & co end up inside filled plastic bags in the ocean. Couldn’t see how they could have made it.
Otherwise, there were absolutely FEW predictable twists. Each turn had surprises.
3. Movie Pace : 3/5
Probably since the story was too small for a 1 and 1/2 hour movie, the movie gets a little slow. But then the plot makes it for all.
4. Animation: 4/5
AMAZING! WONDERFUL! was the expression for Monsters Inc. But this movie I think gets just a WOW!. The deep sea animation was beautiful, especially the scuba diver catching Nemo scene and the Sydney Harbour scene. But it lacked the 3-D depth of Monsters Inc.
5. Voice Cast : 5/5
Wonderful matching of voice to character. The best of all was of Gill and Bloat. It really looked life like. Ofcourse Nemo was cute so was Dory!!
Final Verdict: 5/5
Three days since I watched the movie, I could not forget the Turtle dude and his son or Marlin or Dory or Nemo or Bruce the shark. So imagine how your 6-10 year old will enjoy it. Absolutely Funny, outstanding, mesmerizing and educative movie. Trust me, these guys have put quite a few National Geo stuff in the movie, which makes it informative apart from being entertaining.
Go with your kids, this time they will not ask for the Popcorn or Ice-cream, cause they will sit glued to the seat even in the interval....
10 THUMBS UP