Buscando a Nemo (Finding Nemo) [VHS]

Buscando a Nemo (Finding Nemo) [VHS]
by Andrew Stanton

Buscando a Nemo (Finding Nemo) [VHS]

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Actor: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Eric Bana, Nicholas Bird (II), Willem Dafoe
Director: Andrew Stanton
Primary Contributor: Albert Brooks
Primary Contributor: Ellen DeGeneres
Primary Contributor: Alexander Gould
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: Spanish (Subtitled); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Animated, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC, THX
Running Time: 100 minutes
Release Date: 2003-11-04
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Publisher: Walt Disney Home Video
Studio: Walt Disney Home Video

VHS Movie Reviews of Buscando a Nemo (Finding Nemo) [VHS]

Movie Review: Compared to other Pixars = 3/5 || Compared to other animated films = 5/5
Summary: 3 Stars

Finding Nemo is a visual feast, the sound is exciting and fresh and both serve to draw you into the undersea world of Finding Nemo. From any other animation studio, this film would have earned an enthusiastic 5/5 stars. Compared to other Pixar films, though, the story and emotions just don't have the same impact as the Toy Stories, Ratatouille, or The Incredibles.

Son Nemo and father Marlin are the only surviving members of a clownfish family, living on the edge of a beautiful coral reef. Marlin is especially protective of Nemo and when his first day of school goes disasterously wrong - Nemo is captured by a diver and placed in a salt-water fish tank - Marlin vows to find and rescue Nemo. What follows is a series of adventures that Marlin and Dorie (a friend met along the way) survive on their quest.

As mentioned, the visuals are fantastic, and the animation of the various sea animals is well-visioned. It's always a tricky business to anthropomorphise non-mammalian creatures, but these fish (and turtles starfish, etc.) are both clearly the aquatic species they represent and clearly emote human feelings. The voice acting is, as expected for a Pixar film, fantastic, with perfectly envisioned characters voiced by Albert Brooks (as Marlin), Willem Dafoe (as a fellow aquarium prisoner willing to risk Nemo's life for a chance for them all to escape), and a flock of seagulls, whose only word is "Mine". My favourite scene is that depicted on the box of this 2-disc special edition - a surfer dude turtle ("Don't hurl on the shell, man, I just had it waxed!") who shows Marlin the way to Sydney Harbour, last known location of the boat into which Nemo was abducted.

For a casual viewer, there is a lot of adventure and visual surprises to entertain and delight anyone of any age. However, for the average parent forced to watch repeated viewings of their obsessive child's movie-of-the-moment, it doesn't hold up as well on repeated viewings. First, the ditzy Dorrie's forgetfulness wears thin. Secondly, the structure of the film is a sequence of one set-piece action scene after another, and it gets repetative. Young viewers, of course, will not notice either of these criticisms and, if my 4.5-year-old is any indication, will want to watch the film again and again. (Curse you Pixar! If my son doesn't get enough exercise it's your fault!)

This 2-disc edition has some nifty extras, although not as many as the Incredibles or Toy Story's special editions. Perhaps the most amusing is a short mocumentary where Jean-Michel Cousteau tries to explain the ecosystem of a coral reef and Dorrie and Marlin keep interrupting ("Zis would never have happened to Papa....") Other highlights are the deleted/alternate versions of scenes and the director's commentary, which is more interesting and informative than the standard commentary.

Movie Review: Finding Nemo (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Summary: 5 Stars

Life along the Great Barrier Reef is full of dangers when you are a tiny clown fish. And for Marlin, a single parent determined to protect his only son Nemo, there are constant fears and anxieties. When, on his first day of school, Nemo defies his father and swims off alone to investigate a boat, he is suddenly scooped up by a diver as Marlin helplessly watches. Marlin turns desperate as he frantically swims off in search for his son. As he passes a school of fish he bumps into Dory, an agreeable blue tang with severe short-term memory loss, who offers to help. Together this aquatic odd couple set out on an impossible mission, finding themselves in troubled waters and contending with such hazards as sharks, deadly angler fishes and a forest of jellyfish. An engaging undersea story that your kids will find cool. A treat for everyone.

Movie Review: I'ts gonna be a while folks !!
Summary: 5 Stars

Hey everybody it's gonna take a while for Finding Nemo to come out on Blu-ray. Someone very close to me is in charge for Disney media marketing & distribution for the western half of the United States. This individual told me that they don't plan on releasing Finding Nemo till 2012.....so we all are gonna have to wait. I will tell you it might be worth the wait because this is truly one of the best disney movies!

Movie Review: Great Work -
Summary: 5 Stars

"Finding Nemo" tells the story of Marlin (Albert Brooks), an overprotective clown fish father, taking care of his young Nemoa - first as Nemo begins school, and then after taken by a dentist scuba diver. Marlin's search takes him beyond the Great Barrier Reef into deeper and darker waters, where he meets Dory (Ellen DeGeneres), a forgetful yet optimistic blue tang. Meanwhile, Nemo ends up in the dentist's fish tank in Sydney, Australia, along with other underwater captives, including Gill (Willem Dafoe), the group's scarred Moorish idol leader. As Nemo works with his new friends on a plan to escape their tank, Marlin and Dory swim closer, but they'll need more than just fins to get into the dentist's office. We also meet the improbable Bruce (Barry Humphries), a great white shark on a no-fish diet.

When Nemo and his new friends realize that the dentist plans to give Nemo to his niece Darla. ready to give Nemo to Darla. Nemo acts dead and is flushed down the drain and eventually into the sea, but this also causes Marlin to believe him to be dead. Dory swims off but encounters Nemo and helps Nemo back to his father. The two, along with Dory, happily celebrate, but their joy is quickly cut short when Dory is caught, along with a school of grouper, in a fishing net. Nemo swims to help the fish escape using a trick taught to him by Gill and the other aquarium fish.

Movie Review: Can be watched 15 times a day and still love it
Summary: 5 Stars

Nemo is a classic. The imagery is stunning and the lines are memorable. My 2 1/2 year old can watch this all day and I never get tired of it, either. I laugh continuously at the great script and I always discover something new in it. There are different bonus features on both DVDs and they are definitely worth watching as well. Very cute explanations of the reef, etc, bonus cartoons, and virtual aquariums. Awesome movie to keep forever.

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Summary of Buscando a Nemo (Finding Nemo) [VHS]

A delightful undersea world unfolds in Pixar's animated adventure Finding Nemo. When his son Nemo is captured by a scuba-diver, a nervous-nellie clownfish named Marlin (voiced by Albert Brooks) sets off into the vast--and astonishingly detailed--ocean to find him. Along the way he hooks up with a scatterbrained blue tang fish named Dory (Ellen DeGeneres), who's both helpful and a hindrance, sometimes at the same time. Faced with sharks, deep-sea anglers, fields of poisonous jellyfish, sea turtles, pelicans, and much more, Marlin rises above his neuroses in this wonderfully funny and nonstop thrill ride--rarely does more than 10 minutes pass without a sequence destined to become a theme park attraction. Pixar continues its run of impeccable artistic and economic success (their movies include Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, and Monsters, Inc). Also featuring the voices of Willem Dafoe, Geoffrey Rush, and Allison Janney. --Bret Fetzer

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