The Tank Gang tells Nemo that he will be given to Sherman's niece, Darla, who killed her previous fish. He meets the 'Tank Gang' led by Gill, a Moorish idol. Nemo is placed in a fish tank in the office of dentist Philip Sherman in Sydney. The scent of her blood sends Bruce into a frenzy and he accidentally sets off old naval mines that knock Marlin and Dory unconscious. Marlin finds a diver's mask that fell from the boat, accidentally hitting Dory. The two encounter Bruce, Anchor, and Chum, three sharks who have sworn to abstain from eating fish.
Marlin pursues the boat in vain and bumps into Dory, a blue tang with acute short-term memory loss, who offers her help. During an argument over Marlin's overprotectiveness, Nemo defiantly swims to a speedboat and is captured by scuba divers. Six years later, Marlin is now overprotective of his son, Nemo, who is starting his first day at school. Marlin vows to keep his only surviving child safe. Upon waking, Marlin finds that Coral and all but one of the eggs have been eaten by the barracuda the last remaining egg is cracked. The family is attacked by a hungry barracuda, knocking Marlin out. They are about to become parents, waiting for their many eggs to hatch. A sequel, Finding Dory, was released in June 2016.Ĭlownfish Marlin and his wife, Coral, live happily in an anemone in the Great Barrier Reef.
In 2008, the American Film Institute named it as the 10th greatest American animated film as part of their 10 Top 10 lists. The film received four nominations at the 76th Academy Awards, and won the award for Best Animated Feature, becoming the first Pixar film to do so.įinding Nemo is the best-selling DVD title of all time, with over 40 million copies sold as of 2006, and was the highest-grossing G-rated film of all time before Pixar's own Toy Story 3 overtook it. It also became the highest-grossing animated film at the time of its release, and was the second-highest-grossing film of 2003, earning a total of $871 million worldwide by the end of its initial theatrical run.
Upon its release, it received widespread acclaim from critics, who praised the visual elements, screenplay, animation, Newman's score and characters that have been cited as funny to both young moviegoers and their parents. Premiering in Los Angeles on May 18, Finding Nemo was released in theaters in the United States on May 30, 2003.
Thomas Newman composed the score for the film. To ensure that the movements of the fish in the film were believable, the animators took a crash course in fish biology and oceanography. The inspiration for Finding Nemo sprang from multiple experiences, going back to Stanton's childhood, when he loved going to the dentist to see the fish tank, assuming that the fish were from the ocean and wanted to go home. Pre-production of the film began in early 1997. Along the way, Marlin learns to take risks and comes to terms with Nemo taking care of himself. It tells the story of an overprotective clownfish named Marlin (Brooks) who, along with a forgetful regal blue tang named Dory (DeGeneres), searches for his missing son Nemo (Gould). The film stars the voices of Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould, Willem Dafoe, and Geoffrey Rush. Directed by Andrew Stanton (in his feature directorial debut) with co-direction by Lee Unkrich, the screenplay was written by Stanton, Bob Peterson, and David Reynolds from a story by Stanton. Finding Nemo is a 2003 American animated comedy-drama adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures.
