The old days of Disney fairytales are over, and I say goodriddance, if movies like Finding Nemo replace them.
I went to the 7 p.m. showing and was amazed to see a lack ofchildren. In fact, the overwhelming majority of people looked to be20 or over, attending with friends or on dates.
The movie, in all of its Pixar animation splendor, opens withtwo clownfish who are deciding what to name their 400 fish egg-children.
However, when Marlin (Albert Brooks), the father fish, wakes up,his wife and 399 of the eggs are gone.
The one who is left, Nemo (Alexander Gould), grows up under theunderstandably over-protective Marlin's watchful and dotingeye.
In a struggle for independence from his overbearing father, Nemostrays from the group on the first day of school and ends upcaptured by a dentist who collects fish for his officeaquarium.
Nemo's father, Marlin, begins a journey to find and rescue Nemo,therefore conquering his own fears of the unknown and the sea.Along the way, he encounters a well-intentioned fish, Dory (EllenDeGeneres) with a serious problem with short-term memory loss.DeGeneres is hilarious and causes audible laughter as her charactertries to speak whale and forgets when she is in danger.
Marlin and Dory run into sharks trying a 12-step program to giveup eating innocent fish and wander into a field of stingingjellyfish on their quest.
The dentist's office is also very funny, as Nemo's new friendsfrom the fish tank conspire to escape before the dentist's niececomes to receive Nemo as a birthday gift from her uncle. Theheadgear-wearing little girl has a reputation for accidentallyshaking, killing and flushing fish.
Overall, I'll admit I hadn't laughed so hard at a movie in avery long time, but it was the refreshing moral that made the moviewell worth my money.
I must give points to Disney for its efforts to deal withaddressing the problems of children with disabilities.
Nemo is born with one smaller, almost deformed fin, which makeshis father doubt his son will ever swim as well as his peers.
Throughout the movie, Nemo proves to himself and his father thathe can overcome his handicap.
Finding Nemo's theme is about parents and children learning totrust each other in a child's struggle for independence, but thehumor and moral is for everyone.
