Where's Nemo?!

For my Art of Film blog post, i chose to watch the movie "Finding Nemo" directed by Andrew Stanton. This film is a Disney movie which instantly became a classic, the minute it was released in theatres. The story is about a clown fish named Marlin (Albert Brooks) who lost his entire family when barracuda's attacked his ocean home and eat everything. Marlin thought all was lost, when he found one last egg laying on the coral reef floor, Nemo. On Nemo's 1st day of school, he ventures off into the ocean and gets taken by scuba divers from Sydney, Australlia. Mariln immediately goes after his son and will stop at nothing to find where he went. Along the way he met a friend named Dory (Ellen Degeneres) who forgets everything almost immediately after she learns it. Together they go on a journey trying to find Nemo and get into some crazy adventures along the way.
Some interesting things about this movie which i enjoyed were the way the fish spoke. Rather then being very cartoony and geared more towards the young, I thought the speech in this movie was very normal. I enjoyed this becuase i could relate more to the characters, rather then always being disrupted in my thoughts by the use of very childish words. Another thing i throughly enjoyed was the "camera" movement in the film. Although this film was animated it still used very unique ways for us to be able to see the fish. Some examples were when Dory and Marlin was gobbled up by a whale, it had about 5 minutes of the movie taking place in the whales mouth...a scene that would have been extremely diffcult to do if it were a real movie, but since it was animated it could go places other shots could never be able to go. Another example is rather then most movies now a days when they need to change views they just cut to a new angle, Finding Nemo and Andrew Stanton decided to "pan" the "camera" along the water. I found this very nice becuase it was very smooth and i never felt like i left the characters becuase we were always looking directly at them, even if moving to a new place. Also just as an extra note, the animation was AMAZING and very very realistic and i thought that was a super-plus to add to the realism of this movie.
I looked, and looked for a negative to write about in this review, but i couldnt. I thought this movie was perfect for what it was trying to do. The only thing i could try and knock it on is maybe it was a little too young and cute for my liking, but it was an animated movie and their target was families so i completely understand there logic in doing that and cannot knock it for such a petty reason.
So all in all i thought the music, the acting, the animation, the story, and everything else imagineable you can review went perfect and Finding Nemo is a spectacular film for all ages.