The great joy of watching a Pixar production is how it rewards not only younger viewers but their older companions as well.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: 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.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
This time the dad is the hero of the story, although in most animation it is almost always the mother.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Stephen Holden
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.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Michael O'Sullivan
May be a fish tale, but its story of the paradox of love -- knowing when to hold on means knowing when to let go -- is profoundly humane and human.Read Full Review »
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Time: Richard Corliss
Nemo, with its ravishing underwater fantasia, manages to trump the design glamour of earlier Pixar films.Read Full Review »
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Slate: David Edelstein
Of all the great vocal characterizations...the showstopper is Brooks, who hasn't had a part this good since "Lost in America" (1985). His Marlin is tender, cranky, hysterical, yet somehow lucid.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
As always, the voice casting is perfect. Throw in a moral, and some nice touches of technical accuracy (that fish keepers will appreciate), and the movie represents the best family film to-date of 2003.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Ty Burr
Pixar is so good at what it does that every other kiddie-entertainment purveyor -- including parent company Disney -- flounders in comparison.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
Leave it to a g-rated cartoon to give the live-action epics a lesson in action, fun and bracing originality.Read Full Review »