#Finding nemo fish bag series#

'Finding Nemo' finds some familiar elements from past Pixars. Nine year old Alexander Gould has just the right amount of pluck for the voice of Nemo. Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush ('Frida') is a helpful pelican who connects the two different worlds. Comic amusement is provided by Stephen Root ('Office Space') as a yellow tang that obsesses over tank bubbles and Joe Ranft ('A Bug's Life') as Jacques the fastidious cleaner shrimp. The tank is ruled by Willem Dafoe's ('Spider-Man') Gill, a maimed moorish idol who yearns to return to the sea and his more satisfied pet store inhabitants Brad Garrett (TV's 'Everybody Loves Raymond') as puffer fish Bloat, Austin Pendleton ('A Beautiful Mind') as Gurgle, a worried royal gramma, Vicki Lewis ('Pushing Tin') as damselfish Deb and Allison Janney ('The Hours') as Peach, the tank's lookout starfish. Dame Edna) as Bruce and fellow Aussies Eric Bana ('Black Hawk Down') and Bruce Spense ('Dark City')as his hammerhead and mako self-help buddies, director Stanton as surfer-dude-speak sea turtle Crush and John Ratzenberger ('Toy Story') as an entire shape-shifting school. Other denizens of the deep include Barry Humphries (a.k.a. Her infectious good nature and naive screw ups are made totally endearing. The concept of a fish with short-term memory loss sounded dubiously annoying, but DeGeneres just swims off with it. Brooks appears as a worrywort dad for the second time in as many weeks, but he's much better matched here with DeGeneres, who is 'Finding Nemo's' biggest catch. Composer Thomas Newman ('Road to Perdition') delivers an aural backsplash that never overwhelms the visuals.Īs usual, vocal talents have been meticulously cast. Directors of photography Sharon Calahan and Jeremy Lasky have developed a complex and beautiful lighting scheme to recreate the sensation of snorkeling on a sunlit day. Supervising technical director Oren Jacobs defines lighting, particulate matter, surge and swell, murk and reflections and refractions as the properties that make water look like water and Pixar delivers. Lasseter describes three different textures used for the fish bodies as 'gummy, velvety and metallic' and while the fish look sensational underwater, they have the unfortunate cast of vinyl when shown on the surface. This is exhibited in large scope by the darting of schools of silvery fish and in detail by the gradual blackening of Bruce the shark's eyes when he smells prey. Pixar animators went the Disney route in their study of fish to capture natural movement. Even though he's confined to a tank, Nemo must be indoctrinated by swimming through a 'ring of fire' at the summit of Wannahawkaloogie and brave an escape mission within the tank's filtration system before his own literal fish-out-of-water experiences.

#Finding nemo fish bag series#

And that's just before a series of surface adventures begin. The duo will face a trio of sharks, underwater mines, deep sea angler fish, the Eastern Australian Current and the belly of a whale. Meanwhile Marlin's anguished panic is offset by the spirited optimism of Dory, even if she can't quite remember what they're doing from one minute to the next.

His excitement of vast possibilities is reborn when Nemo gets his first look at the big blue, but Nemo's curiosity ironically lands him in a the fish tank of a dentist's office overlooking Sydney Harbour.

After the deep issues tragic danger, though, Marlin is practically paralyzed with fear, rarely venturing far from safety. Marlin presents his wife Coral with their new pink anemone home at the edge of a drop off and she accepts his embrace of the grandeur of the ocean. 'Finding Nemo' doesn't reach the heights of 'Toy Story' or 'Monsters, Inc.' because of a more familiar storyline, but its underwater marvels and fish tank politics will keep audiences alternating between delight and dread when they're not helpless with laughter. Distraught, Marlin sets out after the boat, picking up an unlikely companion, Dory (Ellen DeGeneres, 'EDtv'), a blue tang with short term memory loss, on his way to 'Finding Nemo.'ĭisney's 'Pinocchio' meets 'Memento' in the latest charming, computer animated film from executive producer John Lasseter's Pixar. On the first day of school, Nemo's embarrassed and challenged by his father's hand-wringing in front of his classmates and rashly swims out to a boat in deep water where he's promptly scooped up in a diver's net. The one child saved, Nemo (Alexander Gould, 'They') has an unformed fin, so dad is doubly overprotective of the lad.

Marlin (Albert Brooks, 'The In-Laws') is a sad and wary clown fish after having lost his wife and 299 unhatched babies to a vicious barracuda at the edge of Australia's Great Barrier Reef.