"Finding Nemo"

FISH ARE FRIENDS NOT FOOD

       Take a dive into the ocean with Disney/Pixar for 2003’s "Finding Nemo".  Take a journey with Marlin, the clown fish as he searches for his son Nemo.  Nemo (voice of Alexander Gould) has an abnormally small fin, which causes his father Marlin (voice of Albert Brooks) to worry about his son’s ability to swim, or even do anything.  After years of being over protected, Nemo finally has a chance to go to school with the other fish and a chance to be away from his father.  When the teacher takes the school of fish on a trip to the reef, Nemo and his friends swim away from the group.  Nemo starts to swim out to sea, when suddenly his father, Marlin appears.  He begins to yell at Nemo to come back in, and the more he does the further out Nemo swims.  Suddenly, FLASH!  A camera flash goes off, and next thing we know Nemo is scooped up by a scuba diver and taken up above the water.

            Now Marlin has to find his son Nemo who has just been taken away from him.  As he swims through the ocean searching for his son, he comes across a little blue fish named Dory (voice of Ellen DeGeneres).  Marlin soon learns that Dory is very forgetful, but she tags along in the search for his son Nemo.  They come across the mask of the diver and inside the strap it says “P.Sherman 42 Walaby Way, Sydney.”  While Marlin and Dory are searching the ocean, Nemo is on land being put into a fish tank with other fish.  He makes friends with these fish, all who came from pet stores.  They come up with a plan to try and escape, so that Nemo can make his way back into the ocean to be with his father.

            As Marlin and Dory make their way closer and closer to Nemo, they come in contact with a few new friends.  A shark named Bruce, who has come to realize that “fish are friends not food”, a turtle named Crush, who was swimming in the EAC with his family and a seagull named Nigel, who has heard plenty of stories of the two fish in search of Nemo.  Nigel helps the two, to see that Nemo is inside a tank at the dentist office, when they approach the window they see Nemo inside a bag, dead.  After seeing this, Marlin leaves Dory and decides to swim home.  Once he leaves Dory, she begins to forget again.  Nemo and the gang inside the tank had planned for Nemo to act dead so that he would be flushed down the toilet, and would be able to make his way back into the ocean to find his father.  Nemo has finally found his way back into the ocean, when he sees Dory.  She has forgotten all about how she was trying to help Marlin find Nemo, when she sees a pipe that says “Sydney.”  Suddenly it all comes rushing back to her and she decides to help Nemo get back to his father.  After all that Marlin finally stops being so overprotective of Nemo, and finally trusts him out in the ocean.

-Ally Laudage