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Though I hadn’t wanted to pay $8.75 for a cartoon, my four-year-old nephew wanted to see Finding Nemo, and sometimes making little people happy is much more important than saving a buck, and I’m happy to say it was not a mistake.
Finding Nemo is an excellent movie about a clown fish, named Nemo, and his father, Marlin. Typical of all children, Nemo feels his father perhaps isn’t brave enough -- or didn’t take enough chances. Ignoring his father, Nemo travels into the open sea, gets caught by a dentist, and ends up in an aquarium in Australia. Marlin -- with the help of Dory, a lady blue fish with short-term memory loss -- spends the remainder of the movie in a high-speed rescue mission that takes him in and out of danger’s way. Together, Marlin and Dory make quite a rescue team, and the laughs are non-stop.
Meanwhile, Nemo is totally unaware that his father is swimming to Australia to save him. He makes the best of a bad situation and befriends his aquarium chums, but when they overhear the dentist say Nemo is to go to his niece, they panic. They’re determined that Nemo won’t be the next fish the dentist’s niece kills, so they formulate a plan to escape -- and their pelican friend gets in on the action.
At the same time, Marlin and Dory encounter a run-in with Bruce, a shark working on a twelve-step program to stop eating fellow fish...until Dory gets bonked in the face and gets a nose bleed. For a while, the audience is sure that Dory or Marlin (or both) will be eaten alive by Bruce, who suddenly resembles Jack Nicholson in The Shining.
As the aquarium escape continues, Nemo is brave enough -- and small enough -- to swim through the water intake valve and lodge a pebble in the fan to keep the motor from operating correctly. The hope is that the tank will become so mucked up with algae that the dentist will have to put the fish into plastic bags and clean the tank out. Then, when the dentist turns his back to clean the tank, they’ll each roll their bag of water across the table, out the window, drop down onto the porch roof, and then to the sidewalk, quickly cross the highway at the red light, roll down the pier, and eventually land in the bay. Big plan for such little guys, but they think they can do it -- and the audience can’t help but root for them.
All in all, the movie was jam-packed with adventure. It had a good measure of spooky moments and tear-jerk elements to keep all ages entertained.
I suggest this movie to everyone. I give it five stars and a big smile!
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