Movie: Finding Nemo

This has got to be one of the greatest movies of all time. I mean of course it’s up there with Ellen being the voice of Dory.

It starts with two clown fish moving into their new home waiting for their eggs to hatch when a barracuda comes and kills the mom and eats all by one egg, which the father (Merlin) names Nemo.

When a little time has passed, and Nemo is ready to start going to school, Merlin is very protective and even though he lets his son go, he soon finds they are going to the dropoff which is a very dangerous part of the reef. Nemo being tired of his dad’s over protectiveness goes out to be daring and try to prove to his dad he can do things when he gets caught by a dentist (you find this out later) and now Merlin must find his son.

On his chase to follow the boat, Merlin runs into Dory, a very forgetful Tang. They set off on a journey to find Nemo after they are caught by sharks (who are vegetarian) and then find the goggles that have the address of the Dentist on them. They have to go through some dangerous obstacles, like a horde of jellyfish and following the EAC with some sea turtles and getting eaten by a whale and dropped off in Sydney before getting swallowed by a Pelican that brings them to the dentist.

Meanwhile, Nemo wakes up to find himself in a tank full of fish he doesn’t know and in a box he can’t get out of. There is one fish that is from the ocean like him, and Angel fish with a beat up fin (just like Nemo’s small fin). They soon find out that Nemo is Darla’s (the dentist’s niece) birthday present. There’s one problem with this, last year she got a fish for her birthday and shook the fish to death. Plan, make the tank dirty so that the dentist has to take the fish out and put them in bags. They get a rock lodged into the filter with the help of Nemo and then dirty the tank, but when Darla’s birthday arrives, the tank is clean with the addition of a new filter.

When Merlin gets to the dentist office, Nemo is pretend dead in a bag and Merlin thinks his son is dead. Nemo then gets put down a sink drain. Merlin breaks off from Dory and when he leaves she can’t really remember anymore and when Nemo finds her she remembers. After helping a set of fish get out of a net, Merlin learns to be a little more loose with Nemo, and Dory stays with them at the end.