But at the center of it all is a fairly small story that has a lot of heart. Already this week I’ve spent over $80 on Nemo: from $35 to see it in a digital theater (I paid for a friend also), $20 for the soundtrack CD, and now $30 for the DVD – but I’ve a ways to go before I’m all Nemo’d out! Still, this new disc should do the trick, what with its extensive line up of extras and bonuses. As with Sylvain Chomet’s recent Belleville Rendezvous/The Triplets Of Belleville, Nemo is a film one wants to watch right away again, not just for the sheer pleasure, but to study it, and take it all in. The fact that my copy of Nemo came in just a couple of days after having seen it in the theater (no, I wasn’t a late-goer, but it had just come out here in the UK) made it even more exciting. The biggest film of its year, live-action or animated, comes to DVD in a great little package that does justice to the movie itself and continues the standard set by previous Disney/Pixar collaborations on disc! Will Marlin, Dory, a team of stoner-surfing turtles and a crazy pelican be able to reach Sydney in time and stop Nemo from becoming sushi? The swim to shore is on… The Sweatbox Review: Like Sid in Toy Story, Darla is a bit of a psycho (complete with Bernard Herrmann’s unforgettable string theme), and deadly to all fish. Meanwhile, our little flipper has ended up in the fish tank of an Australian dentist – a tank filled with other fish desperate to escape due to their being tortured by the dentist’s niece, Darla. Marlin meets up, and is teamed with Dory, who suffers from short-term memory loss (providing many of the film’s best and unexpected moments of comedy) and together they vow to find Nemo and bring him home. His dad tries to keep up with the divers’ boat but loses them, with the only clue to their destination being a swim mask that falls to the bottom of the ocean. Nemo swims off, trying to prove that he can take care of himself, but soon gets tangled up (quite literally) in a diver’s net and taken away from Marlin and the school. Marlin, his clownfish father, lavishes extra care and attention on Nemo as he grows older – something that does not always sit easy with the little fish himself, especially when his dad’s overprotecting nature embarrasses him on his first day of school. Thankfully, at this point, little Nemo has yet to be born and escapes the predator unharmed, the only surviving egg. Pixar Animation Studios/Walt Disney Pictures (May 30 2003), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (November 4 2003), 2 discs, 100 mins plus supplements, 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1 EX Surround, Rated G, Retail: $29.99 Storyboard:Īs with many films to emerge from the Disney Studios over the years, it’s the death of a parent that sets the plot in motion, when clownfish Nemo’s mother and almost all of her eggs are lost to a barracuda attack at their home under the sea on the great barrier reef.
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