Finding Nemo Critic Reviews

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

This time the dad is the hero of the story, although in most animation it is almost always the mother. 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 best break of all is that Pixar's traditionally untethered imagination can't be kept under wraps forever, and "Nemo" erupts with sea creatures that showcase Stanton and company's gift for character and peerless eye for skewering contemporary culture. Read the full review

As always, the voice casting is perfect. Throw in a moral, and some nice touches of technical accuracy (that fish keepers will appreciate), and the movie represents the best family film to-date of 2003. Read the full review

Leave it to a g-rated cartoon to give the live-action epics a lesson in action, fun and bracing originality. Read the full review

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

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

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