I was quite loo­king for­ward to watching this Pixar effort, espe­cially after all the good things I had heard about it. What I loved most about Toy Story was the near rea­lism of the effects, the story­line that appea­led to both young and old and the humor used throughout. But Nemo was defi­na­tely nowhere near as good. The bad bits: Repe­ti­tive jokes; cool dude turt­les (I have seen that before somewhere) that just see­med lame; Dory, more of an attri­bute than a cha­rac­ter who cea­sed to be anno­ying; every five minu­tes there was a dra­ma­tic yet peri­lous moment in which either of our main cha­rac­ters COULD die but most cer­tainly wont; it all see­med overw­rit­ten, desig­ned and mani­pu­la­ted (espe­cially for chil­dren) — what hap­pe­ned to the weird yet won­der­ful tales of the 80s? A story­line not filled with gene­ric, see­mingly requi­red, cli­ma­xes and heart felt moments. It’s also too color­ful, the colors made me feel ill. I was bored throughout, kno­wing exactly what would hap­pen, when it would hap­pen and how it would hap­pen — inc­lu­ding the laughy comedy bits.

So why has this movie got so much atten­tion. It’s #88 on imdb and is nomi­na­ted for four oscars; isn’t it just Dis­ney rewor­king a suc­ces­ful for­mula with final results slightly lac­king com­pa­red to pre­vious occa­sions?
Im trying to work out what peo­ple liked about it, beyond “Nemo’s cute”. Did I miss something?

Never, and I mean, never, in my entire life, has a movie effect me the same way Fin­ding Nemo did. It’s the best movie I’ve EVER seen, and I know I say that about alot movie, but I actually mean it this time. Never, did I ever come out of a thea­ter after seeing a movie smile for the rest of the night. The movie just com­ple­tely blew me away. I knew it was going to be good, but I had no clue what was in store for me when I saw it ope­ning night. This movie is a work of pure genius. The ani­ma­tion is just beau­ti­ful, acting is awe­some, the music fit everything that was going on. I could go on and on with this list, but I think I’ll stop there. What I liked mostly about this movie was that it didn’t lack anything at all. There was just the right amount of comedy, drama, suspense/action, and even romance. And it all blen­ded together beau­ti­fully. This is why I gave this movie a full 10. Believe, me if I could give it more, I would.

Reviews such as this tell me nothing.

Enligh­ten me.

It’s late, I don’t want to sleep. Holy Won­der­ful Mice Bat­man, FofR is get­ting loads of hits thanks to the image leechers searching through goo­gle image search! Nice amber tamblyn pick no?

I’m tired and gra­dually being run down into the ground. It’s 10:25 and I am wai­ting to go off to my ele­ven o’clock semi­nar where I will be given most likely a spe­ci­fi­ca­tion for my design pro­ject. Something I am not par­ti­cu­larly loo­king for­ward to. It is now Week 14 of the uni­ver­sity calen­dar, wk 4 of the current term. I have a pro­fes­sio­nal stu­dies pro­ject to per­form on car seats, to be fina­li­zed with a 6000 word report. I also have many com­pu­ter pro­gram­ming assess­ments to do and panic over. Like mode­lling the move­ment of a pis­ton in an engine. I’m tired.

Oh Im 19 now, had a birth­day I did.