Finding Nemo Critic Reviews

The visuals pop, the fish emote and the ocean comes alive. That's in the first two minutes. After that, they do some really cool stuff.Read the full review

This time the dad is the hero of the story, although in most animation it is almost always the mother.Read the full review

The great joy of watching a Pixar production is how it rewards not only younger viewers but their older companions as well.Read the full review

An exhilarating fish story in the perfectly cast comic adventure.Read the full review

You could trawl the seven seas and not net a funnier, more beautiful, and more original work of art and comedy than Finding Nemo.Read the full review

The humor bubbling through Finding Nemo is so fresh, sure of itself and devoid of the cutesy, saccharine condescension that drips through so many family comedies that you have to wonder what it is about the Pixar technology that inspires the creators to be so endlessly inventive.Read the full review

Of all the great vocal characterizations...the showstopper is Brooks, who hasn't had a part this good since "Lost in America" (1985). His Marlin is tender, cranky, hysterical, yet somehow lucid.Read the full review

May be a fish tale, but its story of the paradox of love -- knowing when to hold on means knowing when to let go -- is profoundly humane and human.Read the full review

Pixar is so good at what it does that every other kiddie-entertainment purveyor -- including parent company Disney -- flounders in comparison.Read the full review