Finding Nemo

Finding Nemo is a charming, funny and at times quite scary computer-animated film for children and adults alike.

The title character is an adventurous little clownfish who is caught by an amateur diver and tipped into an aquarium in the diver's dental practice in Sydney, Australia. Nemo's overprotective father Marlin is distraught, as he had promised himself that nothing would ever happen to his only son. To find Nemo he sets out on a long and perilous journey. Along the way he meets the helpful Dory, who unfortunately suffers from an extreme form of short-term memory loss, which lands them in more than a few unfortunate situations. Obstacles abound, not least in the form of ravenous predatory fish and sharks. On top of that, time is running out for Nemo. He is to be given as a present to the dentist's dreadful little niece, who is notorious among the aquarium fish for her ability to kill off their fellow creatures.

In Finding Nemo Pixar turns the world under the sea into a wondrous universe that alternates between the vividly colourful and the dark and unknown, but the story of overcoming countless hardships on a long journey towards a goal is predictable and familiar, for instance from another computer-animated film, "Dinosaur". Although Finding Nemo is a Disney production, we are thankfully spared superfluous song numbers, but we do not escape a slightly too obvious moral.