I would pay $15.00 to watch this movie

Hollywood is to me like the lottery is to a gambling addict: I spend hundreds of dollars every year just to see maybe ten films worth the ticket price, all because I might hit the jackpot. Well, “Finding Nemo” is this year’s jackpot.

A jackpot movie is not one which you know is going to be good; it’s one which you have relatively low expectations for and which turns out to be orders of magnitude better than it should have been. Don’t get me wrong, I was looking forward to “Finding Nemo”, but, on the other hand, I am the guy who sat through “Treasure Planet”.

“Finding Nemo” is one of the best movies of this year, and I seriously doubt that it has any real competition coming its way in the children’s movie area. Like “Lilo & Stitch” last year, “Finding Nemo” just plain has everything going for it.

The breakdown will glow on this one. The plot, albeit simple, is enchanting and full of cute anthropomorphae. The characters are incredibly expressive and good looking, and the voice actors do a superb job. The sound is great and the score is fun and lively. The direction is, in a word, flawless, and the animation falls under that term as well. But this is not the best part of the movie. The best part of “Finding Nemo” is the dialogue, which is entirely engaging for the whole span of the film. Oh, I suppose I should let the reader know to stick around through the credits, as there are some neat things that go on throughout those.

I really can’t say much more about “Finding Nemo”. Normally, I have some problem with a movie, but I can’t complain about anything in this one other than the triviality of Pixar removing the balloon breasts from the original of the short film “Knick Knack” at the beginning, but that’s a triviality. The only thing I can complain about is the fact that every children’s movie is not as good as this one. But, if that were the case, then I’d probably just raise my bar a bit and the stakes would simply be higher.