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FINDING NEMO FINDS IT HARD TO KEEP AFLOAT

A DISAPPOINTING ANIMATION FROM PIXTAR

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What was expected to be the biggest film of the year has turned out to be one of Pixar’s biggest flops in their film making history!

Finding Nemo was meant to be an excellent film but it turned out to be the exact opposite. Directed by Andrew Stanton, this film doesn’t do anything it was meant to; it’s a comedy that doesn’t make you laugh, a family film that the whole family won’t like, and the list goes on.

When I was sitting in the cinema my hopes were raised by the only good thing in this awful film the computer animation made by Pixar. Their only good point probably made Pixar make one big mistake; they counted on their hi-tech, computer graphics and glowing bright colours of the sea and fish to make the film successful. It looks like after the non-stop praise about Pixar’s skills in computer animation from previous films such as the ground breaking film Toy Story, they have forgotten that there are other skills involved that made up their big achievements such as the clever dialogue and scenes that were actually funny and didn’t only appear once or twice in what’s meant to be a family comedy.

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The story line is about a clownfish, Marlin, who annoys his son, Nemo, with his mollycoddling which results in Nemo putting himself in danger and getting lost. I can imagine the storyline turning into a heart-warming family comedy if only Pixar hadn’t been so foolish to rely so much on computer animation. On the outside, on all the posters and advertisements Finding Nemo seems like a brilliant film that would be fun to watch, which makes the whole experience even worse as your hopes are raised and then brought crashing down to earth. It isn’t only the quality of the ...

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