A delicate little film about a fish directed by Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich, Finding Nemo is about a father, Marlin, desperately in search of his lost or so he believes, kidnapped son named Nemo. Throughout the movie we see the different obstacles that he must face and the trials he must overcome in order to be reunited with his one and only son.
After losing his wife, Coral, and every single egg except for one, Marlin has decided to follow Coral's wishes and name it Nemo being that she is now dead and he's the one and only surviving children he has left. The movie then skips to several years later and we then begin the journey. It starts with a simple fatherly embarrassment that drives Nemo to go against his father's wishes by swimming out away from the reef into the open ocean and is then caught and swept up by a net into a boat and sent off to Sydney, Australia.
Finding Nemo was one of the biggest blockbusters of the year. The movie was easily acknowledged as the highest grossing movie for opening weekend notably for being an animated film. The movie had made a little over $70,000,000 in its opening week alone according to this site. Furthermore, total sales as of date sums to a staggering number of $860mil. With such a high number of gross, it easily makes Finding Nemo one of the top ten best selling movies.
Of course however, with such high numbers, it wouldn't have been possible with the millions of fans around the world. Many critics such as Richard Roeper from Ebert & Roeper said "Finding Nemo is terrific entertainment." and Jeff Strickler from Minneapolis Star Tribune contributed with "...even when Pixar is not at the top of its game, it still produces better animation than some of its competitors on their best days." Numerous of other critics all gave Finding Nemo a fairly good review let alone the general public. The movie being an animated film gives audiences the preconceived notion that it's a children’s film but not necessarily. The movie was enjoyed by not only kids but of people of various ages. A fun filled family comedy animated to please our attention was easily shown by how many people enjoyed the movie. Positive reviews from not only critics but also from families throughout the world can explain how this movie hit the screens and became such a big hit.
Although the movie was released in 2003, the amount of money the movie had grossed wasn't just based on the time and date it was released. In 2003, the movie was seen as ahead of its time in technology and detail. Being the first of its kind, an animated motion picture based on aquatic life, was just what audiences, namely kids, were unconsciously desiring. With such a different and unique movie just released during the summer of 03', audiences were delighted as to see what this new motion picture could captivate them with. However that was the response it got back then. In today's day and age, although it would still be a pretty darn good movie, reactions about it would be different. With such a huge time interval between 03 and 07, a numerous amount of animated movies have been made and presented to the public with many different styles with innovated plot lines making Finding Nemo a not so much anticipated movie. Thus for it being released when it was, made it into what millions believe to be one of the best animated movies ever made to date.
3 comments:
Yeah this was a good movie, but after watching it a couple times... It gets boring and I have watched it many times over the years... So yeah it has been kind of over used. It even has a video game... good review
ok review, but I don't think you talked enough about the behind the scenes aspects. You did talk about the money that went into it, but it would have been nice to talk more about how it was made.
I felt that the animation was amazing. They made it seem real except for the fact that the fish could talk. I can see why it was one of the best movies of 2003. I feel like this was the first movie to express how much technology and effects we actually have mastered.
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