CLASSIC REVIEW: FINDING NEMO
No offense, but if you went to "Finding Nemo 3D" you're a schmuck. That's a terrible way to open a review, but let's be truthful here. You only went to "Nemo" for two reasons: either to see your favorite ocean-dwelling friends Marlin and Dory navigate Marlin's lost son in the third dimensional, or to experience this epic adventure for the first time ever. Either way you're going to get cheated.
Just like "The Lion King" before it and the mixed success of "Beauty and the Beast," Disney's been trying to cram 3D re-releases down America's throats lately. I have news for errr-body: YOU CAN BUY THESE MOVIES, YOU KNOW. Practically every Mom with a kid born in the 90's (That's me!) owns a copy of those three movies. Son, I was RAISED on "The Lion King," and if I had had the opportunity to see it in 3D last year, something everybody did, I would've. The justification of seeing these 90's jewels again is the thrill of that extra dimension people have been craving over since "Avatar" leaped and bounded into America's theaters. Reviews of both "Lion King" and "Beast" have noted it's not all that great. My family saw "Toy Story 3" in 3D and unanimously agreed it added nothing new to the story. To ask why they keep doing this is obvious, (money) and to ask why they re-release these movies that only came out less than 20 years ago (still money). But people will still flock to theaters because nostalgia sells.
It's not exaggerating calling "Finding Nemo" one of the most popular films of all time, animated or not. Purely looking at the facts it's the best-selling DVD of all time and the 24th biggest movie ever. I think it's almost funny how junk like "Transformers 3" can earn more money than classics like "Finding Nemo" and no one remembers it fondly at all. If you took a minute or two to recite the main characters from "Nemo," you probably could. I'll give you a whole hour to think of the model's name from "Transformers 3"....
This might just be my high school but it seems if there was ever a substitute in need of a film to kill time until the bell rang that film would be "Finding Nemo." In middle and high school alone I've seen the film four times at the least. Even when I attended a Model U.N. meeting way back in 2010, instead of a brainy, foreign policy flick, what do you think they showed us? Catchphrases like "Just keep swimming..." and "He touched the butt!" have become the Facebook generation's "Here's looking at you, kid." There is something I like to call "Nemo Backlash," however, when a kid is showed "Nemo" so many times he grows sick of it, despite it's enormous charms. You wouldn't believe it but I've met several people who've gone through this, and I look at them like the fish parents look at Marlin after he told a bad joke.
I've covered why I like Dory in my ranking of Pixar's best characters, but it's Marlin that the viewer truly does relate to. His situation with Nemo is a parent's worse nightmare; not only because he gets kidnapped, but right before he does he tells his father that he hates him. The sympathy the audience shows Marlin helps kids connect to "Nemo," because we've all had someone push us aside, even if we are OCD clown fish. Along with the dynamic duo are some of animation's greatest supporting (voice) cast, with Australian sharks who've turned a new leaf, a few riiiiighteous turtles, and a great big whale that Dory can apparently communicate with. These characters provide genuine laughter, not cute chuckles we get from animated movies nowadays. I'm talking laugh-until-you're snorting laughter, and "Nemo," like "SpongeBob," only gets funnier with age.
To prove how much I've seen it, I didn't even have to watch "Finding Nemo" in 3D, as you should do! You don't need to take all five of your family members out on the town, get popcorn and glasses and watch "Finding Nemo" for $60. Instead, grab a Snuggie, grab your family, and rent "Nemo" on DVD and watch the imagination in your kids grow as they're introduced to a world of excitement and underwater adventure. "Finding Nemo" will always be one of the all time greatest movies for children and adults alike.
Rating: 4 clown fish with OCD/4
Just like "The Lion King" before it and the mixed success of "Beauty and the Beast," Disney's been trying to cram 3D re-releases down America's throats lately. I have news for errr-body: YOU CAN BUY THESE MOVIES, YOU KNOW. Practically every Mom with a kid born in the 90's (That's me!) owns a copy of those three movies. Son, I was RAISED on "The Lion King," and if I had had the opportunity to see it in 3D last year, something everybody did, I would've. The justification of seeing these 90's jewels again is the thrill of that extra dimension people have been craving over since "Avatar" leaped and bounded into America's theaters. Reviews of both "Lion King" and "Beast" have noted it's not all that great. My family saw "Toy Story 3" in 3D and unanimously agreed it added nothing new to the story. To ask why they keep doing this is obvious, (money) and to ask why they re-release these movies that only came out less than 20 years ago (still money). But people will still flock to theaters because nostalgia sells.
This might just be my high school but it seems if there was ever a substitute in need of a film to kill time until the bell rang that film would be "Finding Nemo." In middle and high school alone I've seen the film four times at the least. Even when I attended a Model U.N. meeting way back in 2010, instead of a brainy, foreign policy flick, what do you think they showed us? Catchphrases like "Just keep swimming..." and "He touched the butt!" have become the Facebook generation's "Here's looking at you, kid." There is something I like to call "Nemo Backlash," however, when a kid is showed "Nemo" so many times he grows sick of it, despite it's enormous charms. You wouldn't believe it but I've met several people who've gone through this, and I look at them like the fish parents look at Marlin after he told a bad joke.
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| Bruce the devilishly charismatic shark |
To prove how much I've seen it, I didn't even have to watch "Finding Nemo" in 3D, as you should do! You don't need to take all five of your family members out on the town, get popcorn and glasses and watch "Finding Nemo" for $60. Instead, grab a Snuggie, grab your family, and rent "Nemo" on DVD and watch the imagination in your kids grow as they're introduced to a world of excitement and underwater adventure. "Finding Nemo" will always be one of the all time greatest movies for children and adults alike.
Rating: 4 clown fish with OCD/4
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