Finding Nemo-Watched on 6th June 2003, Regal Cinemas

Welcome to Walt Disney's World. A world where the soul and the spirit exist not just in human bodies, but in any creature that you can imagine. Where toys and fish have lot more to teach us, about the business of living, love and friendship. Where you'd find a lot more adults than kids, watching, enjoying and may be even learning from the movie. Welcome to Walt Disney's World.

"Finding Nemo" takes you through a journey, in the deep currents of the Ocean, to the deep insecurities of an over protective father, the coming of age of an adventurous son, the undying spirit of "escape-to-freedom", along with a sharky message "Fish are Friends, not food".

This animation movie by Pixar Animation studios was an absolute treat to watch. The depths and the colors of the ocean, the colors of the corals and reefs take you to a world you can only dream of under an ocean. And it's a movie that's funny. Not just the kids way of funny, cos, there were lot more giggles from adolescents and adults (or do they laugh louder) and by the time you came out of the hall, you would keep hearing "Wasn't that an awesome movie" for quite a long time.

So what's the awe about? It's a relatively simple story, about a clown fish father(who is not funny), Marlon, whose only son Nemo has a small fin. Marlon is over concerned about the safety of his son ("The ocean is not a safe place"), and is reluctant to send him even to the school (An ocean school). But on his first day to school, Nemo eager to prove to his dad that he can, take care of himself, goes that extra league, and is captured by a diver, and ends up in a dentist's aquarium. And if he doesn't find his route to freedom, he might as well end up being a dead fish in the hands of the dentist's niece with ugly teeth (I forgot her name).

Mean while, the horrified father takes on the fearsome ocean carrying the hope of rescuing his son, from... well, he doesn't know what or where. But with the aid (and delay) from a forgetful friend he makes (or was it fate!!!), Dorry, who tells him about the boat and the address of the dentist (Dorry can read the English Language, but she occasionally forgets she can), he embarks on a journey to be Finding Nemo.

While swimming on his way, he befriends sharks who want to change the shark's image among the fish (Fish are Friends, not food), but a twist of fate, compels him to escape them. But danger follows him and Dorry, when they get caught up jelly fish. The sea turtles help them out and help them to find their way to Sydney, where Nemo is.

In a parallel turn, Nemo knows that his "cowardly" father is fighting a whole ocean to find him, and with his accomplices, bravely turns the aquarium to a stinking pond, so that he can escape when the aquarium is being cleaned. The idea fails, and he feigns "dead" to escape through the toilet. Marlon ends up in the dentist's room at that point with the help from a pelican, but mistakes his son to be dead.

Whether Nemo and his friends in the aquarium finally escape and whether he can reunite with is father forms the climax of the movie.

The movie was like in fact like the ocean. I look back at it, and it feels great to have watched it. Like the waves in the ocean, we laughed at Dorry, and the pelicans, we prayed for Nemo and cried with Marlon. But I have always wondered at the technology that could breathe so much of life into these creatures that didn't exist. May be God feels the same way looking at us.