Year:
2003
Studio:
Pixar
Feature: 4/5
DVD:
4/5
Pixar makes damn fine stories. More than even the animation, it's the
story that makes an entertaining movie (well I suppose action movies
and porn don't need good stories :-). Finding
Nemo is the story of a single overprotective father and a young
son with a disability. When the son is kidnapped the father goes on a
journey to find the son and learns something about himself and so does
the son in the meantime.
We have the voices of Albert Brooks (as the father, Marlin), Ellen
DeGeneres (as Dory, the fish with bad short-term memory), Alexander
Gould (as the son, Nemo) in the primary roles. Like any major animated
motion picture, there are lots of guest voices of recognizable actors.
Willen Dafoe, Brad Garrett (from "Everybody Loves Raymond"), Allison
Janney (from "The West Wing"), Stephen Root and Vicki Lewis (from "News
Radio") and others.
This being a Pixar movie the animation is also amazing. There are times
when it looks photo-realistic and it's interesting that they have to
tone it down to make it look a little more artificial. Especially the
underwater environment of the coral reefs, it's a treat watching the
play of light and water over the multi-colored inhabitants.
The DVD set has the movie in wide screen and full screen formats. The
full screen format actually has more information than the wide screen,
as they made the full screen by adding more to the top and bottom
rather than cutting off the sides. The DVD menus of the two DVDs have
distinctly different flavors which goes to show how much care Pixar
puts into making a good product. Overall it's a great package.
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Disk 1 Extras
Documentary: Making Nemo (25 min)
Visual Commentary with Director Andrew Stanton, Co-Director Lee Unkrich
and Co-Writer Bob Peterson. A fairly standard commentary with
behind-the-scenes clips that play as part of the movie which I much
prefer over watching out for an icon that you click on.
Design Galleries
Art Review (8 min with optional commentary)
Characters (6 min)
Environments: Reef, Ocean, Harbor
Color Script (4 min)
Virtual Aquariums (7 aquariums)
Disk 2 Extras
Exploring the Reef (7 min) - children's documentary
Knick Knack (4 min) - 1989 Pixar short, with optional commentary
Mr Ray's Encyclopedia (8 min)
Fisharades (Game)
Storytime: Nemo Goes to School (7 min)
Behind the Scenes
Character Interviews (2 min)
Studio Tour (5 min)
Publicity (Trailers and such)
Virtual Aquariums
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