Finding Nemo Page #7

Synopsis: A clown fish named Marlin lives in the Great Barrier Reef loses his son, Nemo. After he ventures into the open sea, despite his father's constant warnings about many of the ocean's dangers. Nemo is abducted by a boat and netted up and sent to a dentist's office in Sydney. So, while Marlin ventures off to try to retrieve Nemo, Marlin meets a fish named Dory, a blue tang suffering from short-term memory loss. The companions travel a great distance, encountering various dangerous sea creatures such as sharks, anglerfish and jellyfish, in order to rescue Nemo from the dentist's office, which is situated by Sydney Harbor. While the two are doing this, Nemo and the other sea animals in the dentist's fish tank plot a way to return to Sydney Harbor to live their lives free again.
Director(s): Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich (co-director)
Production: Walt Disney Pictures
  Won 1 Oscar. Another 48 wins & 61 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.1
Metacritic:
90
Rotten Tomatoes:
99%
G
Year:
2003
100 min
$380,529,370
Website
39,307 Views


No worries, man!

No worries! Thank you, dude Crush!

Bye! Bye, Jellyman!

You tell your little dude I said hi, OK?

See ya later, dudes!

Bye, everyone!

Nemo would have loved this.

Ooh! Hey! Crush, I forgot!

How old are you?

150, dude! And still young! Rock on!

150! 150! I gotta remember that.

Whoa.

We going in there? Yep.

P. Sherman, 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney?

Yep. We're gonna just swim straight.

Just keep swimming, just keep swimming Dory...

Boy, this is taking awhile.

How about we play a game?

OK.

OK, I'm thinking of something orange... and it's small-

It's me. Right!

It's orange and small-

It's me.

All righty, Mr. Smartypants.

And it's orange and small and white stripes-

Me. And the next one, just a guess, me.

That's just scary. Wait, wait, wait.

I have definitely seen this floating speck before.

That means we've passed it before... and that means we're going in circles... and that means we're not going straight!

Hey, hey! Get to the surface.

We'll figure it out up there. Let's go!

Hey! Relax. What?

Take a deep breath.

Now, let's ask somebody for directions.

Fine. Who do you want to ask, the speck?

There's nobody here! There has to be someone.

It's the ocean, silly. We're not the only two in here.

Let's see. OK, no one there.

Nope. Nada.

There's somebody. Hey! Excuse-

Dory, Dory, Dory! Now it's my turn.

I'm thinking of something dark and mysterious.

It's a fish we don't know. If we ask it directions... it could ingest us and spit out our bones!

What is it with men and asking for directions?

I don't want to play the gender card right now.

Let's play the Let's Not Die card.

You want to get out of here? Of course I do.

How are we gonna do that unless we give it a shot?

Dory, you don't fully understand-

Come on. Trust me on this.

All right.

Excuse me! Whoo-hoo! Little fella?

Hello! Don't be rude. Say hi.

Ha. Hello.

His son Bingo- Nemo.

Nemo was taken to- Sydney.

Sydney! And it's really, really important... that we get there as fast as we can... so can you help us out?

Come on, little fella. Come on.

Dory, I'm a little fella.

I don't think that's a little fella.

Oh! Big fella. Whale. OK.

Maybe he only speaks whale.

Mooo! Weee neeed...

Dory? Tooo fiind his son.

What are you doing? Are you sure you speak whale?

Can youuuu give us diiirectionsss?

Dory! Heaven knows what you're saying!

See, he's swimming away. Cooome baaack.

He's not coming back. You offended him.

Maybe a different dialect.

Moooohhhmmooo... Dory!

This is not whale. You're speaking upset stomach.

Maybe I should try humpback. Don't.

Wooooooo...

You actually sound sick. Maybe louder?

Rah! Rah! Don't do that!

Too much orca. Didn't it sound orca-ish?

It doesn't sound orca.

It sounds like nothing I've ever heard.

Oooooo! Ohh!

It's just as well. He might be hungry.

Whales don't eat clownfish. They eat krill.

Swim away! Oh, look, krill!

Aah! Aah!

Look at that. Would you look at that?

Filthy. Absolutely filthy.

All thanks to you, kid. You made it possible.

Jacques, I said no cleaning.

I am ashamed.

Look! Scum angel!

Ooh! Aaah!

Bubbles! I love the bubbles!

Flo? Has anybody seen Flo?

9:
00 and cue dentist.

Hello, Barbara. Sorry I'm late.

OK, here we go. Here we go, OK.

Little Davey Reynolds...

Walks to the counter, drops the keys...

Bloat, that's disgusting!

Tastes pretty good to me.

Urrrp! Eww!

Don't you people realize we are swimming in our own-

Shh! Here he comes!

Aah!

Crikey. What a state.

Ohh. Barbara, what's my earliest appointment tomorrow?

-10:
00, luv. Leave it open, would you?

I've gotta clean the fish tank before Darla gets here.

Did you hear that, Sharkbait?

Yay! He's gonna clean the tank!

We're gonna be clean!

You ready to see your dad, kid?

Uh-huh. Of course you are.

I wouldn't be surprised if he's out there... in the harbor waiting for you right now.

Yeah.

Aaah!

Oof!

Whoo!

Yaahhh!

Here comes the big one.

Ooh! Come on! You gotta try this!

Will you just stop it? Why? What's wrong?

We're in a whale, don't you get it?

Whale? A whale!

You had to ask for help! And now we're stuck here!

Wow, a whale. I speak whale.

No, you're insane! You can't speak whale!

I have to get out! I have to find my son!

I have to tell him how old sea turtles are!

Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!

Hey... you OK?

There, there. It's all right.

It'll be OK.

No. No, it won't.

Sure it will. You'll see.

No. I promised him I'd never let anything happen to him.

Huh. That's a funny thing to promise.

What?

You can't never let anything happen to him.

Then nothing would ever happen to him.

Not much fun for little Harpo.

Hmm. What's going on?

Don't know. I'll ask him.

Dory... Whaaat's goooing onnn?

I think he says we've stopped.

Of course we've stopped. Stop trying to speak whale.

You'll make things worse. What is that noise?

Oh, no. Look what you did.

The water's going down. It's going down!

Really? You sure about that?

Look! Already it's half empty!

I'd say it's half full.

Stop that! It's half empty!

OK, that one was a little tougher.

He either said we should go to the back of the throat... or he wants a root beer float.

Of course he wants us to go there!

That's eating us!

How do I taste, Moby? Do I taste good?

Tell him I'm not interested in being lunch!

OK. Heee- Stop talking to him!

Aah! Aah!

What is going on?

I'll check. Whaaat-

No more whale! You can't speak whale!

Yes, I can! No, you can't!

You think you can do these things, but you can't, Nemo!

OK. Dory! Oof!

He says it's time to let go.

Everything's gonna be all right.

How do you know?

How do you know something bad isn't gonna happen?

I don't!

Aah! Aah!

Ha ha ha! We're alive!

Look! Sy-d-ney-Sydney!

Sydney! Sydney again!

You were right, Dory! We made it!

We're gonna find my son!

Thaaank yoouuu, sirrr!

Wow. I wish I could speak whale.

All we gotta do is find the boat that took him.

Right! We can do this!

Morning.

It's morning, everyone! Today's the day!

The sun is shining, the tank is clean... and we are getting out- The tank is clean.

The tank is clean!

But how?

Boss must've installed it while we were sleeping.

What are we gonna do? What's it say, Peach?

I can't hear you, Peach.

The Aquascum 2003 is an all-purpose, self-cleaning... maintenance-free, salt water purifier... that is guaranteed to extend the life of your aquarium fish.

Stop it!

The Aquascum is programmed to scan... your tank environment every five minutes?!

Scan? What does that mean?

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Andrew Stanton

Andrew Ayers Stanton is an American animator, storyboard artist, film director, screenwriter, producer and voice actor based at Pixar, which he joined in 1990. more…

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