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.
Written by Anonymous
In Latin the word nemo means 'nobody' or 'no one'. It is also a reference to Captain Nemo in Jules Verne's novel "20,000 leagues under the sea".
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Goofs
Factual errors:
The divers' boat has a stern-drive unit with two propellers. When it starts, both propellers turn in the same direction, but they should rotate in opposite directions.
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Quotes
[first lines]
Marlin:
Wow. Coral:
Mmm. Marlin:
Wow. Coral:
Mm-hmm. Marlin:
Wow. Coral:
Yes, Marlin. I... No, I see it. It's beautiful. Marlin:
So, Coral, when you said you wanted an ocean view, you didn't think you were going to get the whole ocean, did you? Huh?
[deep breath]
Marlin:
Oh, yeah. A fish can breathe out here. Did your man deliver, or did he deliver?
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Crazy Credits
Through the closing credits, various characters interact briefly with the
credits. At the end, the frightened little fish from the shark therapy
group makes a final appearance in front of the angler fish.
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