Finding Nemo

Finding Nemo (2003)

  • 98% of critics liked it
    (199 reviews)

  • 80% of users liked it
    (31,542,965 ratings)

Andrew Stanton, who helped write Toy Story and Monsters, Inc., co-wrote and directed this computer-animated comedy-adventure about finding a very small fish in a very large ocean. Marlin (voice of Albert Brooks) is a more-than-slightly paranoid Clown Fish who is extremely devoted to his young son,… More

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G, 1 hr. 41 min.
Directed By
Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich
Written By
Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson, David Reynolds
Genres
Animation, Kids & Family, Comedy
In Theaters
May 30, 2003 Wide
On DVD
Nov 4, 2003
Walt Disney Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly

    In this seamless blending of technical brilliance and storytelling verve, the Pixar team has made something as marvelously soulful and innately, fluidly American as jazz.

  • Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine

    Nemo, with its ravishing underwater fantasia, manages to trump the design glamour of earlier Pixar films.

  • Todd McCarthy, Variety

    Very clever and imaginative indeed.

  • Ted Shen, Chicago Reader

    [An] aquatic joyride.

  • David Ansen, Newsweek

    A visual marvel, every frame packed to the gills with clever details, Finding Nemo is the best big-studio release so far this year.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Michael M


    Lets be honest, who could hate Finding Nemo? It's quite simply an instant classic. There is no reason why people could hate the stunnig visuals and the well written screenplay.

  • Louis R


    Sublime.

  • Matt G


    Dory: I can speak whale! Next to 'The Incredibles', 'Finding Nemo' is Pixar's best film. A great plot, as well as great voice actors really contribute well to the movie, besides the amazing animation, which involves great complexity and hard work, making… More

  • Brad W


    Finding Nemo is one of Pixars best films, and is a all time classic. After losinghis wife years ago, Marlin the clown fish loses his son, he meets a blue fish named Dory who have brain memory loss, they must travel the ocean in search for his son Nemo, who makes friends with a group… More

  • Eric A


    This is how you make a cartoon.

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