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100
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
This time the dad is the hero of the story, although in most animation it is almost always the mother.
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100
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Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
You could trawl the seven seas and not net a funnier, more beautiful, and more original work of art and comedy than Finding Nemo.
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100
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San Francisco Chronicle C.W. Nevius
The visuals pop, the fish emote and the ocean comes alive. That's in the first two minutes. After that, they do some really cool stuff.
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Washington Post Ann Hornaday
The great joy of watching a Pixar production is how it rewards not only younger viewers but their older companions as well.
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90
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The New York Times Stephen Holden
The humor bubbling through Finding Nemo is so fresh, sure of itself and devoid of the cutesy, saccharine condescension that drips through so many family comedies that you have to wonder what it is about the Pixar technology that inspires the creators to be so endlessly inventive.
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90
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Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
May be a fish tale, but its story of the paradox of love -- knowing when to hold on means knowing when to let go -- is profoundly humane and human.
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90
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Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
An undersea treasure all the same, and a prodigy of visual energy.
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88
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Leave it to a g-rated cartoon to give the live-action epics a lesson in action, fun and bracing originality.
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88
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USA Today Claudia Puig
The most gorgeous of all the Pixar films - which include "Toy Story" 1 and 2, "A Bug's Life" and "Monsters, Inc." -Nemo treats family audiences to a sweet, resonant story and breathtaking visuals.
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80
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Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
The best break of all is that Pixar's traditionally untethered imagination can't be kept under wraps forever, and "Nemo" erupts with sea creatures that showcase Stanton and company's gift for character and peerless eye for skewering contemporary culture.
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