The movie was released on a 2-disc DVD on November 4, 2003 in the United States and Canada, in Australia on January 16, 2004, and the UK on February 27, 2004. It went on to become the best selling DVD of all time, with 28 million copies sold. In 2005, Time magazine listed it as one of the top 100 films ever made. …show more content…
These two films only go on for 100 minutes but it’s just short enough to keep the kids watching it without falling asleep. Finding Nemo strongly makes itself a family film, rather than the usually awful films you take the family to.
Through a horrible event, Nemo (Alexander Gould) loses his mum and 499 of his siblings leaving only his father Marlin (Albert Brooks), a worrying clown fish, who over-protects his son from the many dangers hidden in the Great Barrier Reef. In an act of revolution, Nemo swims past the reef's "drop off," where he's caught by a scuba-diving dentist, who puts Nemo inside a fish aquarium.
Although Marlin knows nothing about his son's doom, he is strong-minded to find him, no matter how rough the waters ahead may be. The nervous clown fish starts on the journey of a lifetime, in hope of rescuing his child. In a stroke of luck when Marlin meets up with a blue tang fish named Dory (Ellen Degeneres), who saw the direction of the dentist boat was heading in. The bad thing with Dory is that she has next to no short-term memory; therefore she can get things wrong so she doesn't really remember which way the boat was going …show more content…
The people at Pixar remember that an animated family film needs something more than a "U" or "PG" rating to make it a worldwide hit. They remember that an animated family film needs memorable characters, an intriguing script, and action scenes that move the plot forward, to make it a great movie. Pixar know that to make a classic animated family film they need both a heart and a soul. Finding Nemo, is Pixar’s fifth full length feature film, and definitely one of their best, the creative team at Pixar has redefined what is known as being "on a role." And all because they never forget the basics of