Finding Nemo Reviews

Toy Story creator Pixar continues its run of superb computer-generated animated features with this jaw-dropping underwater adventure. It's a rainbow-hued delight, overflowing with innovation and vitality. Australia's Great Barrier Reef provides a stunning starting point for this aquatic fable, as single-parent clown fish Marlin (voiced by Albert Brooks) sees his beloved only son, Nemo, netted by a scuba diver. From then on, it's a non-stop journey of visual excitement and wonder, as the distraught father sets off to rescue his offspring, encountering a host of colourful characters along the way. As is mandatory for a family film, there are plenty of life lessons for youngsters to learn, but they come agreeably sugar-coated with humour and fun. Meanwhile, a more adult undercurrent offers grown-up laughs, and there's even some old-fashioned tear-jerking to complete the emotional rollercoaster ride. The voice casting is inspired too, with Willem Dafoe, Geoffrey Rush and Eric Bana among those contributing supplementary texture to this marvellous sensory experience.

Terrific animation, with splendid underwater sequences, isn't matched by the thin narrative; audiences are not likely to be hooked by the adult fish, the whiny Marlin and forgetful Dory.

Toy Story creator Pixar continues its run of superb computer-generated animated features with this jaw-dropping underwater adventure. It's a rainbow-hued delight, overflowing with innovation and vitality. Australia's Great Barrier Reef provides a stunning starting point for this aquatic fable, as single-parent clown fish Marlin (voiced by Albert Brooks) sees his beloved only son, Nemo, netted by a scuba diver. From then on, it's a non-stop journey of visual excitement and wonder, as the distraught father sets off to rescue his offspring, encountering a host of colourful characters along the way. As is mandatory for a family film, there are plenty of life lessons for youngsters to learn, but they come agreeably sugar-coated with humour and fun. Meanwhile, a more adult undercurrent offers grown-up laughs, and there's even some old-fashioned tear-jerking to complete the emotional rollercoaster ride. The voice casting is inspired too, with Willem Dafoe, Geoffrey Rush and Eric Bana among those contributing supplementary texture to this marvellous sensory experience.

Terrific animation, with splendid underwater sequences, isn't matched by the thin narrative; audiences are not likely to be hooked by the adult fish, the whiny Marlin and forgetful Dory.