# "Finding Nemo" - let's talk! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 22, 2003, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-lets-talk/176917 "2003-05-22T22:59:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-lets-talk/176917/1 "2003-05-22T22:59:15Z")
Okay, what’s this? It’s eight days to the premier of **Finding Nemo,** and there’s still no discussion about it in CP! **Hrmpth!** Surely I can’t be the only Doper who thinks everything Pixar does is pure gold, right? Surely I’m not the only person who’s eagerly anticipating this movie more than any of the other smmer 2003 blockbusters, right?. Surely I’m not the only doper who’s starved for **Nemo** -related chatter, right? _Right?_ C’mon, folks! Get yerselves out of that coral reef and start chattin’! ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-lets-talk/176917/2 "2003-05-22T23:37:15Z")
I think the trailer is lame. But the movie will probably be good. ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2003, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-lets-talk/176917/3 "2003-05-23T03:11:56Z")
Yeah, the trailer doesn’t look to promising. Except for the stoner/surfer turtles. ---
**Author:** ![skaterboarder87](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@skaterboarder87](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skaterboarder87)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2003, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-lets-talk/176917/4 "2003-05-23T03:39:31Z")
The movie looks amazing! The CG…Jesus-tap-dancing-christ is it impressive. ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2003, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-lets-talk/176917/5 "2003-05-23T04:29:56Z")
**Finding Nemo** is the only Hollywood movie that I have any interest in seeing this summer. The animation looks awesome. As for the trailer, I’m willing to believe that the best parts of the movie are longer sequences that they couldn’t fit in, so they just had to go for lackluster one-liners. The early reviews say that the screenplay is better than **Monsters Incorporated**. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@Bill\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_H)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2003, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-lets-talk/176917/6 "2003-05-23T04:35:39Z")
Just love the trailer, everything but those idiotic turtles. Looking forward to it in a big way. It is just amazing how each of these new computer generated blockbusters takes such a quantum leap above the last one. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2003, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-lets-talk/176917/7 "2003-05-23T06:46:07Z")
I liked the teaser trailer (“Will a bigger fish eat me?!”), but I agree the trailers currently running don’t look too appealing. Fortunately, I’m such a Pixar junkie that the trailer could be 120 seconds of a blank screen and the title, and I’d be all eager to see it anyway. 😃 There’s a theory floating around that Disney is out to deliberately screw up the marketing for _Finding Nemo_ – Pixar and Disney are going to re-negotiate their agreements after its release, and the better _Nemo_ does, the stronger Pixar’s hand becomes. Not sure what to make of it, personally. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2003, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-lets-talk/176917/8 "2003-05-23T07:50:29Z")
I see at [animated-movies](http://www.animated-movies.net/FindingNemo.html) fine site, that Sydney makes an appearance in the movie. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2003, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-lets-talk/176917/9 "2003-05-23T07:55:06Z")
I am looking forward to this movie immensely. Pixar rule. Unfortunately it does not come out here until August (despite the fact it is set here), so I am pissed off about that. I bought the _Art Of…_ book and everything (but then I always do, I have quite a nice collection) and now it’s just a looooong waiting game. ---
**Author:** ![catnoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@catnoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catnoe)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2003, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-lets-talk/176917/10 "2003-05-23T11:16:23Z")
I love Pixar movies. I like the ‘out-takes’ at the end and that they go to the trouble of making them. At the end of the trailer when the fish belched and then they cut to the two seagulls…I knew what was coming and busted out laughing, took about five minutes for me to calm down. Hubby says he doesn’t want to see it but knows he’ll regret it if he doesn’t. He always enjoys them too. I think he thinks that ‘sophisticated adults’ aren’t suppose to like animated movies/cartoons, but me and the little kid in him are winning the cartoon fight. (I know it isn’t a cartoon.) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2003, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-lets-talk/176917/11 "2003-05-23T14:50:45Z")
I think this movie is going to totally screw up my vanity searchs. ---
**Author:** ![annieclaus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5a626/32.png) [@annieclaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/annieclaus)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2003, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-lets-talk/176917/12 "2003-05-23T14:51:30Z")
Bring it on! Looks to be the best thing to come along since SHREK. (I know, I know. . . not a Pixar movie, but a fine example of animated movie entertainment IMHO!) ---
**Author:** ![Greywolf73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d9b06d/32.png) [@Greywolf73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greywolf73)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2003, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-lets-talk/176917/13 "2003-05-23T15:32:27Z")
I am really excited to see it. Possibly more excited than my kids! ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2003, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-lets-talk/176917/14 "2003-05-23T17:58:34Z")
The trailer on the Spirited Away DVD looked awesome, but I’m in agreement that the ads currently running on TV aren’t that exciting. I still have high hopes for it, though, and would love to see it. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2003, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-lets-talk/176917/15 "2003-05-23T18:25:20Z")
I think Albert Brooks and Ellen Degenres are both funny and should be great in it. I also don’t care for surfer turtle voice. I thought that was trendy back with Fast Times at Ridgemont High and died with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2003, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-lets-talk/176917/16 "2003-05-23T21:40:19Z")
A couple of my colleagues saw it many months ago and they completely loved it in pretty rough form, so I imagine I’ll be pretty happy with it. ---
**Author:** ![FallenAngel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@FallenAngel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FallenAngel)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2003, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-lets-talk/176917/17 "2003-05-23T21:41:36Z")
I’m going to see it, most likely, but I’m a little leery. Monsters was one of my fave movies of the past 10 years, but Ice Age was such a letdown that I want to go to Nemo with no expectations whatsoever. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2003, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-lets-talk/176917/18 "2003-05-23T23:22:26Z")
Ummm… Pixar didn’t do _Ice Age._ Though I hear it was pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![annieclaus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5a626/32.png) [@annieclaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/annieclaus)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2003, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-lets-talk/176917/19 "2003-05-24T02:47:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by rjung \* > \*\*Ummm… Pixar didn’t do _Ice Age._ Though I hear it was pretty good. \*\* No, it wasn’t Pixar but it was hysterically funny. And it plucked at the heartstrings as well. I anticipate nothing less from NEMO. ---
**Author:** ![seriousart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@seriousart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seriousart)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2003, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-lets-talk/176917/20 "2003-05-24T05:08:35Z")
Should be awesome. And I for one hope Pixar shakes off Disney asap. Had a friend who’s sister is a budding animator. The Pixar folks spoke at her school and showed a sneak preview of Monster’s Inc. They also spoke pretty candidly about butting heads with Disney over character designs, especially Mike, who Disney insisted wouldn’t work, due to only having the one eye. I’m definitely in the “would pay to see Pixar do anything” group. They’re batting a thousand IMHO. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-nemo-lets-talk/176917.md?page=2)