The Adventures of Captain Nemo

Saw the delightful movie 'Finding Nemo' this weekend and am still smiling enough to talk about it. The animation is so wonderful that after a while it hardly feels like an animated movie. As many others have pointed out, it must have been an awfully hard job to give the fishes so much character when all you have to work with is two eyes and a mouth. Nemo is the only surviving kid of a hyper clown fish named Marlin who is a typical over protective single parent.(He's not funny, all he knows is one joke which he tells pathetically) When a scuba diving dentist 'kidnaps' Nemo for his office aquarium, Marlin begins his quest to find his son. He is joined by a delightful sidekick who loses her memory every few minutes and they take us along with them on their journey to Sydney harbor. They meet a trio of sharks who turn out to be enrolled in a hilarious 12-step program to improve their public image. 'Fish are friends, not food' they intone, but a whiff of blood is enough to turn one of them into a raving bloodthirsty monster. Every sea creature in the movie has a funny personality. There's a group of totally hip sea turtles who take them along the EAC freeway (uh, the East Australian Current) to Sydney. There's also the dentist's niece who looks awful and has the evil reputation of having killed all the fish pets she's previously had. (When she makes her appearance they play music from 'Psycho'). Also a set of menacing sea birds who keep screaming 'mine..mine..mine..' when they spot a crab or a fish. And a pelican.. and a set of funny fish in the aquarium.. one of them claims to have been bought on e-bay.. one that hoards the bubbles from the aerator.. an extra hygienic lobster... boy, I'm giving away everything.. go watch the movie, and when it ends, stick on for the credits, they're funny too.