November 2002, from Disney’s Buena Vista Video division. Hope it’s another two-DVD jammed-with-all-sorts-of-stuff deluxe edition, as with the Monsters Inc. DVD.
I still wish he had more screen time.
A recent Pixar article had a quote similar to this. “If we wanted to show realistic humans, it’d be cheaper to get some actors and film them.”
And the seagulls were not intended to be a Chicken Run/Aardman Animation/Wallace and Grommit reference (some folks say the gulls look like “Feathers” McGruff from “The Wrong Trousers”). Apparently it was just an effective look for making the seagulls look like a mindless horde…
The word “Dude” now makes me smile, whereas in the past it just made me cringe. Crush was such an endearing character, he made me think a little of the character Donald Sutherland played in Kelly’s Heroes.
I had no probs with the animation of humans by Pixar. If I want real humans, I will watch an unanimated film. As it was, they had Darla down to a “t”, and the looks on the patients when they heard the screaming going on in the dentist’s work area was priceless.
Looking forward to the standing ovation the Pixar producers/directors will get in the next Oscar ceremony.
Another question: Who did the old Bobby Darin tune, “Beyond The Sea” at the end? My SO and I absolutely loved hearing that, but she thinks it was a remake. We stayed and watched the credits, but they were so long, we finally had to go before it showed on the screen.
Gotta go. My “Whale-Speaking” lesson is about to start…
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Saw it last night and found it to be entertaining. Not quite as good as Toy Story, but still funny. One thing that didn’t hit me until after I saw the film is that they didn’t have any references (and it would have been sooooooooo easy to slip one of these in) to bearded clams.
I saw it for the second time last night, and I absolutely loved it! It was even better the second-time around, I would encourage everyone to see it in a packed theatre. I ran into absolutely no annoying children, and sometimes the things people choose to hoot at are hilarious. 10 out of 10.
I’m kinda amazed by all the raves here. It’s a fine kid’s movie, no doubt, but my wife and I were thoroughly disappointed. There were maybe three really funny lines in the whole piece.
It didn’t come close to the level of Shrek or the even worse Toy Story 2 and nowhere near the quality of Monsters Inc. or the original Toy Story.
There were maybe three really funny lines in the whole piece. I would also give it maybe 6 out of 10, and that only for the technical excellence.
Well, to each his own. I never particularly liked Toy Story (although I was in the target audience), but I really liked Finding Nemo. It was adorable and almost made me cry at the end, which is more than I can say for any live action movie I’ve seen lately.
For a previous poster, Anime is the name given to Japanese animation – which in general has a style uniquely different from American animation. It can be episodic (TV shows) or movie-length. Some anime is for kids and some is for adults.
Kid stuff anime is stuff like the Pokemon movies or the old Voltron cartoons.
Some anime is based on comic books series with the same plot (called manga). Akira is probably the best-known anime based on manga. It doesn’t make much sense if you haven’t read the books prior to watching the movie.
Other anime movies, like Perfect Blue, are stand-alone features for adult audiences.
Still other anime has crossover appeal between kids & adults, like Spirited Away which I think won best foreign film last year.
Note that some of the shots where Bruce is chasing Marlin and Dory are riffs of Jaws II. Also note that, just before everything goes bang, the various sharks all spoof Monty Python by shouting “Swim away! Swim away!”
Never mind the look of the seagulls, I loved how they kept shouting “Mine!” all the time. When I thought back to all the real-life gulls I’ve ever seen, it seemed pretty appropriate.
I find the dispute over many of the references here interesting, because all of them are on the IMDb, yet I’ve submitted plenty of 100% true items to them that never ever got posted.
We finally got round to seeing Finding Nemo last night, with my three daughters and two other kids in tow. I loved it. As good as any movie Pixar has made so far, better than most.
The animation is stunning… literally. Easily the best water animation I’ve ever seen come from a computer, it puts Attack of the Clones (which had terrible water animation) to absolute shame. The detail Pizar is putting into their movies these days is just incredible.
I loved all the little in-jokes. Did anyone else notice the Buzz Lightyear toy in the dentist’s office waiting room? I had a laugh at that.
I’m surprised nobody’s mentioned the music… this was the first Pixar feature film that didn’t use Randy Newman for the music. As much as I like Randy’s music for all of the other Pixar films (and I like his music in general), I think the choice of Thomas Newman, one of my favorite composers, was perfect for this. Randy’s music probably would not have fit the feel of this movie as well as Thomas’ did. It was also refreshing to hear a different musical tone in a Pixar movie.
I had seen the animated short before the movie, the one with Bobby McFerrin music, before… but it was nice seeing it here again.
I was a little disappointed that there was no “blooper reel” at the end this time. Hopefully, the DVD will take care of that.
All in all, a really really good movie! The kids all loved it, and my wife and I dug it too.
Though I haven’t yet seen Chicken Run, I also immediately got a Wallace and Gromit feel from the sea gulls.
Just saw this tonight. I’ve never seen a Pixar film, and I loved this. I’ve been waiting for it since I saw a preview (maybe back when I saw The Two Towers, but I have a feeling it was something more recent than that), and I wasn’t disapointed. Great visuals, and a slightly sappy but different story made this a film worth seeing (it’s not that common that we have extended father/son relationships in movies like this).
