Friday, October 5, 2007

I think this is disney & pixar's masterpiece - Finding Nemo Reviews

Before "Finding Nemo" begins, we wonder if we're going to experience as much magic as we did when we first saw "Toy Story", and then went on to see other great films like "Toy Story 2", "A Bug's Life", and "Monster's Inc.". When "Finding Nemo" finally does begin, we've already seen enough magic to make us cry. I think this is Disney & Pixar's masterpiece. The film begins with two clown fish gazing from their anemone home. Marlin (Albert Brooks) and his wife Coral seem like the happiest couple, seemingly about to start the perfect life. But when a Barracuda appears and attacks, Marlin awakes from blacking out only to discover that Coral is gone and so are all of his un-hatched eggs. Well, all except one. Remembering that Coral wanted to name one of the babies Nemo, he gives the baby that name, but Marlin doesn't want to lose Nemo either, so from then on he becomes an over-protective father to Nemo. On Nemo's first day of school, Marlin becomes so overrun with fear for Nemo, and Nemo (Alexander Gould) is dared by some other fish to swim across the deep part of the ocean. Marlin catches up and the father and son get in a fight. Suddenly some divers appear and Nemo is snatched away. Marlin tries desperately to find the divers' motorboat, but he fails to catch up with it. Then Marlin bumps into a blue fish named Dory (Ellen Degeneres) who claims that she knows where the boat is. But when Marlin tries following her, she begins to act strange, and she explains later that it's because she suffers from short-term memory loss. Dory and Marlin find one of the diver's masks, and though Dory is getting on his nerves, Marling finds out that she can read the human language, and she's suddenly able to memorize tha address on the mask, even through her constant memory loss. Together Marlin and Dory face many obstacles on their journey through the ocean, including: encountering vegetarian sharks, being chased by a monstrous fish in the abyss, swimming through a school of jellyfish, getting stuck in a whale, and riding in the mouth of a pelican named Nigel (Geoffrey Rush). Meanwhile, Nemo is far away in a fish tank in a dentist's office somewhere in Sydney, Australia. There, Nemo befriends the other creatures in the tank led by a fish named Gill (Willem Dafoe), and with the help of them, Nemo begins planning escapes from the tank, and he'll have to escape quick, before the dentist's careless niece Darla takes him home with her! Albert Brooks is splendid as Marlin, and Ellen Degeneres, who was obviously born to play Dory, steals the show with her outstanding performace. These are two marvelous actors playing two remarkable fish. "Shark Tale" was just released into theaters, but it looks disappointing after what the critics have rated it overall. That would be a shame if it's really as bad as people say it is, even though I understand why it wouldn't be as good as "Finding Nemo", because the critics have said that it's got "Godfather" type jokes, which little kids probably wouldn't understand. "Finding Nemo" is a huge delight. When first seen it looks like a movie you'd want to watch over and over again, but believe me, you'll get used to it after about 4 times. I don't like the fact that Pixar probably isn't working with Disney anymore (their last film, "The Incredibles, is soon to come out), but who knows? Maybe they'll reunite one day. And "Finding Nemo" is Disney and Pixar's greatest achievement ever.

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