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Eerste recensie
Finding Nemo Review
By Shawn McKenzie 05/30/2003

This year has been a bad year for kid flicks. We’ve had horrible animated features like The Jungle Book 2 and Piglet's Big Movie. We’ve also had goofy kiddie spy flicks, like Agent Cody Banks, and heady, slightly confusing book adaptations like Holes. We even had the first TV movie you had to pay for, The Lizzie McGuire Movie. While all these movies are likely to please most kids, I think the best movies targeted towards kids also appeal to adults. Pixar Animation Studio has yet to fail on that goal, and they triumph again with Finding Nemo.

Marlin (voiced by Albert Brooks) and Coral (voiced by Elizabeth Perkins) are a couple of clown fish who are proud parents of a new litter of baby clown fish, still in their egg stage. Marlin wants to name half of them Marlin Jr. and the other half Coral Jr., but Coral wants at least one of them to be named Nemo. In the great tradition of Disney movies, a barracuda kills the mom Coral, along with all but one of the eggs. Marlin raises the surviving baby fish alone and names him Nemo. Because of the tragic circumstances revolving Coral’s demise, and the fact that Nemo has one fin that is too small, Marlin is a little overprotective. A couple of years pass, and Nemo (voiced by Alexander Gould) is ready for his first day at school. Marlin doesn’t want him to go, but allows him to go anyway. It is at the school that Nemo meets fellow classmates Pearl (voiced by Erica Beck), a flapjack octopus, Sheldon (voiced by Erik Per Sullivan), a sea horse, and Tad (voiced by Jordy Ranft), a long-nosed butterfly fish. They all get aboard Mr. Ray (voiced by Bob Peterson), a stingray who is their teacher. He takes them on a field trip to the Drop-Off, the place where Coral and the eggs were killed. When Marlin finds out about this, he goes after Nemo to bring him home. Nemo is so embarrassed by Marlin’s intrusion that he swims out to dangerously touch the bottom of a fishing boat in defiance. As he is swimming back, a diver scoops him up as a specimen and drives the boat away. Marlin swims after the boat, but eventually loses it. He tries to get some help from anyone who might have seen the boat, and he thinks he might have found that help from Dory (voiced by Ellen DeGeneres), a regal blue tang. She says she saw the boat, but leads Marlin nowhere. It is at this time that he learns that Dory has severe short-term memory problems. After they find out from the diver’s mask that Nemo is with a “P. Sherman” in Sydney, Australia (Dory remembers that she knows how to read), Marlin and Dory set upon a long journey to find Nemo, where they encounter many interesting characters. There is a trio of sharks, Great White shark Bruce (voiced by Barry Humphries), hammerhead shark Anchor (voiced by Eric Bana), and mako shark Chum (voiced by Bruce Spence), who want to end their habit of eating fish. They also have a close encounter with an anglerfish and some jellyfish, before they finally reach the EAC (East Australian Current), a current that a school of fish (voiced mostly by John Ratzenberger) told them would take them to Sydney. It is on the EAC that they meet a sea turtle named Crush (voiced by Andrew Stanton, who also directed the movie) and his son Squirt (Nicholas Bird), who helps Marlin and Dory through the current. Meanwhile, Nemo has found himself in the fish tank of Dr. Sherman (voiced by Bill Hunter), a dentist whose office overhangs the harbor. He is caged in the tank with another set of colorful characters. The “Tank Gang” is led by Gill (voiced by Willem Defoe), a Moorish idol who is the only other one in the tank who came from the sea. A starfish named Peach (voiced by Allison Janney) hangs on the side of the tank and acts as their lookout. A blowfish named Bloat (voiced by Brad Garrett) blows up every time stress gets to him. A yellow tang named Bubbles (voiced by Stephen Root) gets all goofy when he sees bubbles. A royal gramma named Gurgle (voiced by Austin Pendleton) is a fish who wants everything clean and germ free. A shrimp named Jacques (voiced by Joe Ranft) does all that cleaning. Finally, a black and white humbug damsel fish named Deb (voiced by Vicki Lewis) thinks her reflection in the glass of the tank is her sister Flo. After they initiate Nemo into the Tank Gang, they formulate a plan to escape and make it back to sea. This is especially important, since Dr. Sherman plans to give Nemo to his niece Darla (voiced by Lulu Ebeling), a girl who tends to kill her fish quickly. If things go well, Nemo will escape and be reunited with his dad, whose adventures with Dory have become legendary, according to a pelican named Nigel (voiced by Geoffrey Rush.)

This movie is so fun to watch! I actually think it is the first Pixar movie to have the traditional feel of a Disney movie. It combines the elements of classic Disney movies (dead mom, epic journeys with colorful characters) with the elements that made Pixar so successful (amazing computer animation, great writing.)

I have to admit, when I first saw the trailers for this movie, I wasn’t impressed. I thought it was possibly going to be the lamest Pixar movie yet. After I saw the film, I realized the trailer did something rare in the world of trailers…it didn’t show the funniest parts of the movie! Most of those funny parts they didn’t show involve Dory. DeGeneres’ character steals the show in every scene, with the best one possibly being her attempt to communicate with a whale. I thought it was odd that they didn’t show any of Dory’s scenes in the trailers, and my only theory is that they think DeGeneres might be too controversial of a personality to advertise her involvement. That is a shame, since she is the highlight of the film.
Finally, we have a kiddie film in 2003 that grownups can enjoy with or without their kids. I liked Finding Nemo so much that I saw it twice, and it was just as enjoyable the second time around. Pixar really has the pulse of what works. They pick a great vocal cast, and employ the best writers. Some people think that computer animation will take over traditional animation as the leading moneymaking animation force. While computer animation looks cool, the reason they are a hit is the talent of the voices and the writing. Traditional animation could do just as well if they had that. Bring your little guppies to this one and you’ll have a fishy good time!
www.entertainyourbrain.com/findingnemorev.htm

Tweede recensie
Finding Nemo
Reviewed by Lisa Schwarzbaum

You could trawl the seven seas and not net a funnier, more beautiful, and more original work of art and comedy than Finding Nemo, the dazzling new computer-animated adventure about a fishy father and son that furthers Pixar Animation Studios' record streak of excellence. Fins and scales are a logical next step, I suppose, for moviemakers who previously romped so joyously with toys, bugs, and monsters. But nothing -- including what felt like a year's worth of teasers I regularly ignored at the multiplex -- prepared me for the elation evoked by a neurotically cautious, bright-orange-and-white-striped clownfish named Marlin (voiced by Albert Brooks) and his considerably bolder son, Nemo (9-year-old Alexander Gould, already a pro from his work on ''Ally McBeal''), as each swims his own hero's journey.
No less innovative than ''The Matrix'' and a triumphant directorial debut for Andrew Stanton (the Pixar veteran who also devised the original story, cowrote the screenplay with Bob Peterson and David Reynolds, and voices a sea turtle given to surfer-dude-speak), this epic teems with characters worth caring about. It just happens they're cartoon fish, a special-interest group that hasn't been properly employed since the demise of the hip, ''Howdy Doody''-era kids' TV puppet show ''Diver Dan.''
Separated from his overprotective father in a moment of youthful curiosity familiar to anyone who has taken a kid to the mall, Nemo is scooped up along Australia's Great Barrier Reef by a dentist and hobbyist diver with an office fish tank to fill, while the horrified Marlin watches. It's a frightening scene, a Disney classic moment of darkness right up there with Simba's witness of Mufasa's death in ''The Lion King.'' (In best, if most disturbing, Disney tradition, infant Nemo lost his mother early in the story, a two-parent household apparently regarded as a boon for child development but a bust for drama.) From then on, though, ''Finding Nemo'' charts its own exhilarating, atmospheric course, with Nemo bravely steering his one underdeveloped fin that flutters with a little whir (the sound is a pretty, almost inaudibly constant pittle-pittle-pittle). In all of the protagonists -- Everyfish -- qualities of good and bad, bravery and weakness coexist. And thus is each notably...human.
As nervous-nellie Marlin, Brooks personifies anxiety with a gusto denied him by the insipidness of his similar role in ''The In-Laws,'' but he's also capable of taking risks and learning to enjoy the thrill of mastery. Dory, the friendly blue tang fish who joins Marlin on his rescue mission, has a lousy short-term memory but a great capacity for friendship and the good luck to be voiced with perfect pitch by Ellen DeGeneres; the comedian's bright sweetness warms Dory's permanent state of enthusiastic dither. A trio of sharks the two meet along the way are in a self-help program to reform their wicked, fish-eating ways and spruce up their reputations. (Barry Humphries sets aside his Dame Edna personality to voice the alpha male -- named Bruce, with a nod to ''Jaws'' -- who anticipates resistance to his outreach efforts: ''Why trust a shark, right?'') And each of the fellow ichthyic inmates in Nemo's new fishbowl home has a more evolved, compelling personality than just about any live-action dramatic character out today: While Gill (Willem Dafoe), the tough old specimen who dominates the territory, sizes up the newcomer, the rest of the gang (voiced by Allison Janney, Austin Pendleton, and Vicki Lewis, among others) demonstrate an enthralled-spectator understanding of dental procedures.
Like ''The Simpsons,'' ''Finding Nemo'' sustains its own comic universe of intelligent life, a thronging biosphere of amusement simultaneously scaled for children and pitched for knowing adults (''I'm a natural blue!'' Dory insists). The seagulls alone, nuttily blank-eyed like the penguin in ''The Wrong Trousers'' and cawing ''Mine?! Mine?! Mine!'' with an insistence suitable to ''The Birds,'' are worthy of their own spin-off series. But while the zingy story surges forward on currents of wit, influenced by trends in comedy improv and, yes, advances in psychotherapy (''You think you can do these things, but you just can't,'' Marlin tells Nemo, before each is forced to test the limits of his self-confidence), ''Finding Nemo'' floats in a gorgeous, painterly, watery world made possible by production designer Ralph Eggleston, his team of artists, and computer programs at a boggling level of sophistication.
Citing the naturalistic animal life in ''Bambi'' as their reference, the filmmakers summon up the shifting light and motion of their animal kingdom with poetic precision disguised as fun. In this seamless blending of technical brilliance and storytelling verve, the Pixar team has made something as marvelously soulful and innately, fluidly American as jazz.
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,450436~1~~findingnemo,00.html

Derde recensie
By Stephen Holden
Published: May 30, 2003

Among the finned creatures who wriggle and dart through Disney/Pixar's sparkling aquatic fable, ''Finding Nemo,'' the most comically inspired is a great white shark named Bruce (the voice of Barry Humphries), who glides through the ocean flanked by two menacing sidekicks, Anchor (Eric Bana), a hammerhead, and Chum (Bruce Spence), a mako. An ominous hulk, with eyes like gleaming bullets and a savage jack-o'-lantern grin, Bruce has adopted a 12-step program to curb his insatiable appetite for other fish. ''Fish are friends, not food,'' goes the mantra he repeats in an unctuously imperious drawl whenever he's tempted to gobble up a passing morsel.
But sharks will be sharks, and Bruce's resolution is awfully shaky. In the movie's scariest scene, the drifting scent of blood drives him into a ravenous frenzy in which his eyes turn black and he lunges after Marlin (Albert Brooks), the meek little orange-and-white clown fish he has been regaling with his recovery spiel. Their hair-raising life-or-death chase takes them around a sunken submarine and through a minefield.
Bruce is only the most fearsome of the predators encountered by Marlin, a nervous, overprotective father who sets out over the great, wide ocean to find his lost son Nemo (Alexander Gould). Before his journey is over, he finds himself trapped in the mouth of a blue whale with only moments to spare before it takes a big, lethal gulp, and pursued by a flock of sea gulls that are almost as menacing as the birds in Alfred Hitchcock's avian nightmare.
Nemo, a squeaky-voiced youngster who was born with one fin smaller than the other, disappears on his first day of school after defying his father with a daredevil stunt. Leaving the security of the Great Barrier Reef where he and his dad live comfortably inside a sea anemone, he swims out to inspect a distant boat and is scooped up in a scuba diver's net.
Although Marlin swims to the rescue, he is repelled by the blast of the boat's propeller. The boy eventually lands inside the aquarium of a dentist in Sydney, Australia, where his tank companions are so bored they have picked up the technical argot of dentistry from observing their keeper. In setting out to find Nemo, Marlin has only a single clue as to his whereabouts: the address of the fishing boat.
In its broadest outlines, ''Finding Nemo,'' which opens nationwide today, is an upbeat, sentimental fable about a fearful father and a rebellious son who recklessly breaks away. Each has to learn to trust and respect the other, but to arrive at a better understanding both must endure any number of harrowing trials.
At home, Marlin, a well-meaning worrywart, addresses his son in the nagging whine of a nervous milquetoast. Initially he seems the least likely candidate to risk his life to save anyone. But once he takes to the open water, he is unstoppably courageous and resourceful in his quest to find the boy.
Along the way he teams up with Dory (Ellen DeGeneres), an inveterately cheery blue tang with a severe case of short-term memory loss that causes many complications. The character, who speaks in daffy non sequiturs but knows enough to tutor Marlin in the funny language of whales, is the movie's comic center. And Ms. DeGeneres infuses what could have been a one-note role with an irresistible enthusiasm and playfulness.
The adventures they share include near-entrapment in a school of deadly jellyfish and a joy ride on the East Australian Current with a green sea turtle named Crush (Andrew Stanton) who, despite being 150 years old, has the adventurous spirit and vocabulary of a 16-year-old surfer dude.
High on the movie's list of accomplishments is its creation of an undersea wonderland whose opalescent colors and shifting light reflect the enchanted aura of dreamy aquatic photography. Whether the setting is a fish tank or an ocean current, the movie successfully sustains a watery ambience, not an easy thing to do given water's semitransparency.
''Finding Nemo'' doesn't pretend that its undersea environment is a happier alterative to the world above. Under its comforting narrative arc, it presents a stark vision of the sea world as a treacherous jungle that, for all its beauty and excitement, is an extremely dangerous place to live. The movie jumps right into the darker side of life in a scene in which Marlin and his wife, Coral (Elizabeth Perkins), marvel at the more than 400 eggs that are about to yield a brood of children, only to have their future snatched away with the unwelcome appearance of a barracuda. In one furious snap, the intruder devours Coral and all but one of the eggs, leaving only Marlin and the single egg that becomes Nemo.
Once Nemo has landed in the aquarium, the story cuts back and forth between the father, desperately searching for his son, and Nemo making friends with his tankmates and plotting an improbable escape. The tank's unofficial leader, Gill (Willem Dafoe), is a black-and-white-striped Moorish idol, who like Nemo is a former ocean dweller longing to return to the sea.
The escape plan becomes a race against time once Nemo learns he is to be given as a present to the dentist's 8-year-old niece, Darla, a savage little monster who has been known to take a baggie containing a fish and shake it violently. Darla's appearances are accompanied by snippets of the shrieking murder music from ''Psycho.''
Visual imagination and sophisticated wit raise ''Finding Nemo'' to a level just below the peaks of Pixar's ''Toy Story'' movies and ''Monsters, Inc.,'' which were created by many of the same hands. (Mr. Stanton, who plays Crush and was co-director of ''A Bug's Life,'' directs ''Nemo'' with Lee Unkrich.) As in the earlier Pixar movies, the animation achieves an astonishing synergy of voice, computer-animated image and dialogue. Facial expressions match vocal inflections with a precision that lends even the minor characters an almost surreal clarity.
The humor bubbling through ''Finding Nemo'' is so fresh, sure of itself and devoid of the cutesy, saccharine condescension that drips through so many family comedies that you have to wonder what it is about the Pixar technology that inspires the creators to be so endlessly inventive. The capacity of computer-animation to evoke a three-dimensional sense of detail obviously has something to do with it. But the enterprise still wouldn't amount to much without the formidable storytelling talents driving it.
FINDING NEMO
Directed by Andrew Stanton; co-directed by Lee Unkrich; written by Mr. Stanton, Bob Peterson and David Reynolds, based on a story by Mr. Stanton; directors of photography, Sharon Calahan and Jeremy Lasky; edited by David Ian Salter; music by Thomas Newman; production designer, Ralph Eggleston; produced by Graham Walters; released by Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios. Running time: 104 minutes. This film is rated G.
WITH THE VOICES OF: Albert Brooks (Marlin), Ellen DeGeneres (Dory), Alexander Gould (Nemo), Willem Dafoe (Gill), Elizabeth Perkins (Coral), Brad Garrett (Bloat), Allison Janney (Peach), Austin Pendleton (Gurgle), Stephen Root (Bubbles), Vicki Lewis (Deb and Flo), Geoffrey Rush (Nigel), Andrew Stanton (Crush), Barry Humphries (Bruce), Eric Bana (Anchor) and Bruce Spence (Chum).
Photos: Bruce, the shark at right, confronts Marlin (lower left) in ''Nemo.'' (Pixar/Disney)(pg. E20); Fish are friends: Marlin, in the foreground, and Dory in ''Finding Nemo.'' (Pixar/Disney)(pg. E1)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/30/movies/film-review-vast-sea-tiny-fish-big-crisis.html?pagewanted=1

Vierde recensie
Reviewed by Nev Pierce
Updated 05 October 2003

Hilarious, exciting and endlessly inventive, Finding Nemo is an awesome aquatic animation which will exhaust the adjective store of even the most hyperbolic film hack (ahem). One word just about does the job: genius.
Somewhere, under the sea, weak-finned clown fish Nemo (Alexander Gould) lives with his fretful father, Marlin (Albert Brooks). Smothered by pop's paranoia, he ventures away from the reef, but his dad's dread is justified when a passing diver whisks him away.
Taken to a tank in a Sydney dentists, Nemo meets Gill (Willem Dafoe) and co - friendly fish who dream of escaping to the ocean. Meanwhile, Marlin bumps into a blue tang named Dory (Ellen DeGeneres), and sets out to save his son...
It's a familiar formula for the digi-drawn dynamics of Pixar, whose Toy Story and Monsters, Inc. have proved such critical and commercial hits. How increasingly impressive the achievement, then, that Finding Nemo feels so fresh.
There is beauty and brilliance in every frame. Tasked with creating an undersea environment, the animators have excelled themselves, capturing textures, light, shade and movement that could be photo-real, were it not for the clever way the makers have subtly caricatured landscapes, as well as characters, lending a warm cartoonish quality to the stunning visuals.
The splendour of natural history hit The Blue Planet is matched by the wit of the script and stars. Barry Humphries has a terrific cameo as a great white shark who's sworn off killing (Remember, fish are friends, not food!), while DeGeneres provides perfect timing and tone as Dory, whose short-term memory loss is a gag that never stops running.
Managing to move without falling into the jaws of sentimentality, the picture thrills and frightens too. A paean to parenthood and superb for sprogs, it's a perfect piece of storytelling. What a catch! Reel it in! You'll have a whale of a time! Etc, etc.
Finding Nemo opens in London's West End, and Manchester Filmworks, on Friday 3rd October 2003. It goes nationwide on Friday 10th October 2003.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2003/07/22/finding_nemo_2003_review.shtml

Vijfde recensie
Finding Nemo Review
by Ram Samudrala October 13th, 2003

Finding Nemo is one of the cleverest films that I've seen. It combines brilliant animation with a great story and terrific voices to present an experience that works on many different levels.The film starts off in a depressing manner, depicting a barracuda finishing off the wife of a struggling clown fish and all but one of their 300 future children. The father, Marlin (Albert Brooks), treasures the lone surviving egg and raises it in a spoilt manner. The egg grows into a spunky young lad named Nemo (Alexander Gould). In his first day of school, as he is proving his courage, Nemo is fishnapped by a dentist/diver. Thus begins the premise of the film: Nemo's father goes from the Great Barrier Reef to Sydney to rescue Nemo who is trapped in an aquarium in the dentist's office and trying to get out. The animation is excellent, and the voices, which is what make or break such a film, are incredible. The fish speaking was as natural as anything I've seen in the real world. In the film, there's a fish, Dory (Ellen DeGeneres), who has a short-term memory problem. A premise like that might not seem to be worth much, but the filmmakers get a lot out of mileage out it, coming up with jokes in a creative manner. There are several other things that are hilarious, including the mellow sea turtles, the whale-speak episode, the fish-eating sea gulls, the sharks who've vowed to not eat fish, and the co-inhabitants of the aquarium in which Nemo finds himself in. There are a lot of lines in the film that'll stick in your head, particularly the ones uttered by Dory (though my favourite character was Crush (Andrew Stanton), the sea turtle).The plot is set in a typical action-movie fashion, where both Marlin and Nemo end up in a series of adventures, including first reading the diver's snorkel mask to find out the address where Nemo is likely to be held, battling a horde of jellyfish and traversing the East Australian Current, and finally end up in Sydney Harbour.It's hard to describe in words what a great film Finding Nemo is. I definitely recommend checking it out on the big screen. Worth the full price of admission.
http://www.killermovies.com/f/findingnemo/reviews/knb.html

Zesde recensie
Finding Nemo Review
by Mark R. Leeper
June 30th, 2003

CAPSULE: A timid tropical fish earns his stripes
when he goes on a quest to rescue his son. Pixar
animation's new feature is certainly an audience
pleaser, but for once their new feature is not
clearly better than their previous work. Rating:
6 (0 to 10), high +1 (-4 to +4)

Pixar Incorporated, the computer animation company that partners with Disney, generally manages to make each new film they make better than their previous effort. It is a faint criticism, but FINDING NEMO is probably no better than being just on a par with MONSTERS, INC. The animation is fine, at times spectacular. Much of the humor is just puns with sea-related words and small allusions to films and film-making. For example, a shark is given the name of a famous prop shark used in another film.

As the story opens, Marlin (a clownfish voiced by Albert Brooks) and his mate are expecting hundreds of their eggs to hatch soon. In a moment's tragedy Marlin loses mate and eggs. Only one egg is left. Sometime later Marlin is a single parent of a single teenager-like offspring. Marlin has become extremely risk-adverse, terrified that something will happen to little Nemo. Then Nemo is captured for an aquarium in a dentist's office. Marlin begins the long odyssey to find his son and return him home. Along the way he picks up a traveling companion, Dory (Ellen DeGeneres). Together they face the dangers of the sea to travel from the Great Barrier Reef to a dentist's office in Sydney and to perform an apparently impossible rescue. The writers seem to have thought of all the ways a fish might possibly die and have put them into the story. Still, this is a moving father-and-son relationship, and one in which for once Disney does not automatically assume that father knows best. The script develops many characters of different types, with voices by actors including Willem Dafoe and Austin Pendleton. Thomas Newman provides the score.

Younger children may be desturbed by scenes of violence against fish and a number of rather fierce and ugly-looking fish, including three sharks ambivalent about eating other fish.
While not Pixar's best effort, FINDING NEMO still beats any Disney animated film through 1960 and probably a good deal later. I rate it a 6 on the 0 to 10 scale and a high +1 on the -4 to +4 scale. The film is shown with an older but still enjoyable Pixar short, KNICK KNACK. Also, the end credits have some humorous animation.
http://www.killermovies.com/f/findingnemo/reviews/k4x.html

Zevende recensie
Finding Nemo Review
by Mike Brown
June 10th, 2003

It seems as if I'm the only one in the world who didn't like "Toy Story" and its sequel. While I recognized that the computer animation was groundbreaking, I was disappointed with the dragging feeling of their stories but specifically with the voice acting which I felt didn't match the look of the characters themselves. However since 1998's A Bug's Life I have really enjoyed Pixar's films with their latest entry Finding Nemo clearly being the best so far.

"Finding Nemo" sets its tale under the sea and involves the journey of an over-protective clown fish named Marlin, voiced by Albert Brooks, who sets out to find his lost son Nemo who finds himself trapped in an aquarium in a dentist's office. One might wonder how a simple fish would have the slightest chance of rescuing his son from a dentist office's fish tank but through Marlin's journey he meets numerous underwater creatures who, like the audience, really do want him to find his son.

Such is the appeal of Pixar's movies since they always create worlds that are inhabited by a wide variety of characters that are worth caring about even though they are not human. However much of my admiration goes towards the overall look of the film itself which shows just how just talented and creative the creators at Pixar have become. Just looking at this movie is almost worth the price of admission in my mind but when you add the memorable characters such as the sea turtles who begin every sentence with the word 'dude', the great white shark whose desperately trying to stay on the wagon and the pea-brained seagulls who think everything belongs to them, it is easy to see that "Finding Nemo" is more than just eye candy but a moving and totally entertaining experience.
http://www.killermovies.com/f/findingnemo/reviews/k17.html

Achtste recensie
Door Arnold van Oostrum
Datum: 18-03-2004

Niets dan respect voor de mensen van Pixar. Voor de vijfde keer op rij, na de meesterwerken A Bug’s Life, de Toy Story en Toy Story 2 verhalen en Monsters & Co., hebben ze met Finding Nemo wederom een sublieme computeranimatiefilm afgeleverd. En weer zijn ze in staat geweest de kwaliteitslat meters te verhogen. Regisseur Andrew Stanton heeft het verhaal van Finding Nemo geschreven en heeft het samen met onder andere Bob Peterson omgewerkt tot dit filmverhaal. Dit uitstekende verhaal vertedert, het is spannend, er is actie, de karakters krijgen aandacht en natuurlijk is de humor ook weer in ruime mate aanwezig. Kortom, genieten van het welhaast ultieme fantasieverhaal. Maar ook op technisch vlak zijn ze bij Pixar weer grensverleggend bezig geweest. Dit verhaal speelt zich nagenoeg geheel onderwater af, wat qua computeranimatie gewoon verschrikkelijk moeilijk is. Vooral als je bedenkt hoe realistisch dit alles er uitziet. Kortom, het is terecht dat deze film bij de laatste Oscar® uitreiking in de prijzen is gevallen. En de Oscar® is niet de enige prijs die de makers van de film hebben gekregen.
Werd bij voorgaande Pixar films de muziek verzorgd door Randy Newman, dit keer heeft Thomas Newman de muziek geschreven. Thomas is de neef van Randy, dus het blijft eigenlijk toch in de familie. Mooie muziek die precies aansluit bij de ‘onderwatersfeer’ dat de film uitstraalt. Persoonlijk vind ik het stukje muziek dat gebruikt wordt bij de schildpadden één van de beste stukken. Ook aan de stemmen is weer veel aandacht geschonken, maar dat verrast natuurlijk niet. Alexander Gould deed de stem van Nemo, Ellen DeGeneres die van Dory en Albert Brooks deed Marlin. Daarnaast nog vele andere mensen, waarbij ook Andrew Stanton en Bob Peterson hun stem hebben uitgeleend aan een karakter. Ook de Nederlandse nasynchronisatie is puik in orde, met stemmen van Annick Boer, Huub Stapel, Johnny Kraaijkamp jr., Ron Brandsteder, Albert Verlinde en Beau van Erven Dorens.
In de strijd tegen de verhandeling van illegale kopieën heeft Buena Vista de DVD een extra kenmerk meegegeven. De binnenring van de DVD is nu voorzien van holografische symbolen, die aan beide zijden zichtbaar zijn.

Beeldkwaliteit
Evenals bij de andere Pixar films, is de digitale bron rechtstreeks overgezet naar DVD. Beeld en geluid zijn voorzien van een THX certificaat. Nou en met de beeldkwaliteit zit het dus weer hartstikke snor. Je wordt getrakteerd op een fantastisch mooi en bijzonder kleurrijk beeld. Scherpte en detaillering zijn onvoorstelbaar goed, let maar eens op alle kleine details. Uiteraard is de rest als contrast, kleurverzadiging en zwartniveau gewoon perfect. In het beeld zul je geen ongerechtigheden ontdekken. Nou ja, als je heel goed je best doet, kun je in de egale (blauwe) achtergronden soms kleine compressiefoutjes zien. Het is muggenziften, ik weet het. In de toekomst zal HD DVD (high definition DVD) ongetwijfeld nog meer detail in het beeld onthullen, maar voorlopig lijkt dit het beste beeld dat met DVD te bereiken is.
De film is netjes verdeeld in 33 chapters. De laagwisseling van de DVD-9 (dubbellaags) is slechts heel kort merkbaar. De optionele Nederlandse ondertiteling is goed verzorgd, maar staat nog steeds te hoog geplaatst onder in het beeld.

Geluidskwaliteit
Op het gebied van het geluid is er ook geen reden tot klagen. Je hebt keuze uit de originele Engelse track in zowel Dolby Digital 5.1 EX surround (bitrate 448 kb/s) als in DTS 5.1 ES Matrix (bitrate 754 kb/s). Natuurlijk is een Nederlandse nasynchronisatie aanwezig, deze track is in Dolby Digital 5.1 EX surround (bitrate 384 kb/s).
De soundtrack is van demonstratiekwaliteit. Als je vrienden, kennissen of familie wilt imponeren, gebruik dan Finding Nemo. De uitstekende klinkende en zeer dynamische soundtrack klinkt fantastisch met een zeer breed en ruimtelijk geluidsbeeld. De geluidsmix is met veel gevoel voor richting en subtiele details gemaakt. Maar bovenal is het een zeer homogene soundtrack waarbij alle speakers op gelijke wijze bijdragen in een bijzonder natuurlijk klinkend geluidsbeeld. De meeste dialogen komen uit de centerspeaker, maar afhankelijk van de plaats in het beeld komen de stemmen ook wel eens uit de frontspeakers en af en toe zelfs uit de surroundspeakers. Het LFE-kanaal wordt uitstekend gebruikt om de soundtrack een stevig fundament te geven en gaat mooi diep het laagspectrum in. Er zit nauwelijks hoorbaar verschil in kwaliteit tussen de DD en de DTS track.
De Nederlandse nasynchronisatie is uiteraard, we zijn niet anders gewend bij Disney, prima gedaan. Ook naar deze versie is het aangenaam luisteren en ook hier zijn de stemmen goed in balans met de overige geluiden en muziek. Toch valt hier het verschil in bitrate van de tracks wel op. De Nederlandse track is iets minder indrukwekkend qua impact (vooral in het laag) van het geluid en mist wat in de detaillering van het hoog.
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