Finding Nemo - review

Is this really 10 years old? The Pixar/Disney classic Finding Nemo has been reissued in 3D for the anniversary, although such a superbly visual movie hardly needs that gimmick to get back on the big screen. Parents will have seen it dozens of times with their children on DVD or their laptops, but families could do worse this Easter than go back to see it at the cinema. Albert Brooks gives one of his most engaging performances as the voice of Marlin, the tender, widowed clownfish who is nervy and overprotective of his son, Nemo, voiced by Alexander Gould. But Nemo is captured by predatory human divers; he finds himself imprisoned in a dentist's fishtank in Sydney, and while Nemo and his inmates plan their big break, Marlin must go on an epic journey to save him, chancing across characters such as amnesiac blue tang Dory (Ellen DeGeneres) and Bruce the Shark (Barry Humphries). Nemo continues to inspire lower-rent knock-off animations, whose undersea world looks simply like a screensaver. The reef in Nemo is a vivid and brilliant world, and this is the original and best.