Finding Nemo: Critic Reviews

In this seamless blending of technical brilliance and storytelling verve, the Pixar team has made something as marvelously soulful and innately, fluidly American as jazz.

Visual imagination and sophisticated wit raise Finding Nemo to a level just below the peaks of Pixar's Toy Story movies and Monsters, Inc..

It's all tremendously entertaining stuff, with oodles of wonderful detail and superb direction by Andrew Stanton.

Treats family audiences to a sweet, resonant story and breathtaking visuals.

Finding Nemo will engross kids with its absorbing story, brightly drawn characters and lively action, and grown-ups will be equally entertained by the film's subtle humor and the sophistication of its visuals.

A captivating and richly resonant aquatic fable, with characters whose gills and fins belie their deliciously human (that is, flawed) personalities.

Finding Nemo isn't quite up there with the company's finest work -- there's finally a sense of formula setting in -- but it's hands down the best family film since Monsters, Inc.

It's an ocean of eye candy that tastes fresh even in this ADD-addled era of SpongeBob SquarePants.

An enchanting animated feature.

Lives up to Pixar's high standards for wildly creative visuals, clever comedy, solid characters and an involving story.

Delivers with a colorful, lush and witty world under the sea.

An exquisitely touching saga about a father tracking down his lost son.

One of those rare movies where I wanted to sit in the front row and let the images wash out to the edges of my field of vision.

You connect to these sea creatures as you rarely do with humans in big-screen adventures. The result: a true sunken treasure.

[An] aquatic joyride.

As eye-popping as Nemo's peepers and as eccentric as this little fish with asymmetrical fins.

Proves that even when Pixar is not at the top of its game, it still produces better animation than some of its competitors on their best days.

A simple test of humanity: If you don't laugh aloud while watching it, you've got a battery not a heart.

A fish story that hooks you from the opening scene.

Very clever and imaginative indeed.

A dazzling, computer-animated fish tale with a funny, touching script and wonderful voice performances that make it an unqualified treat for all ages.

Lives up to the proud, relatively new tradition of Monsters, Inc., A Bug's Life and the Toy Story films.

One of the strongest releases from Disney in years, thanks to the work of Andrew Stanton, possibly one of the most successful directors you've never heard of.

A superb animated film.

It turns out that Pixar does fish like nobody does fish.