Well, I'm tired of waiting for this one, so I guess I'll have to start it myself.

Thoughts? Favorite moments? Hidden secrets?

Things I noticed: The dentist's fish tank has a sunken ship model inside. The mermaid on the front is from the animated short at the beginning.

Also, in the denstist's office, a little boy is reading a comic book based on the Incredibles, pixar's nect film.

Finaly, also in the dentists office, we have a familiar cameo: among the toys scattered about the floor, Buzz Lightyear resides.

Bruce, the shark, is probably an homage to the nickname given to the mechanical shark used in "Jaws."

John Ratzenberger, again, plays a voice. I believe he's the only actor to play a voice in all the Pixar feature films.

If memory serves Mike from "Monsters, Inc." scubas through a bit of the ending credits.

Bruce, the shark, is probably an homage to the nickname given to the mechanical shark used in "Jaws."

You are correct Darth.

Great movie. I loved it. Probably my favorite of the summer season so far. Pixar just keeps delivering. It's an A.

If memory serves Mike from "Monsters, Inc." scubas through a bit of the ending credits.

Got this one too (according to snopes.com's message board).

The same thread mentioned that Pixar's trademark ball and desk lamp characters cameo in all their films, so they're probably here too.

The mobile above the dentist's chair is Boo's from "Monster's Inc."

They found him! You can see where here!

Funny... but I actually think that's Marlin, not Nemo.

THAT'S TERRIBLE! DISGUSTING! DISTURBING!


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...and yet strangely funny at the same time... :-)

Nice Photoshop (I'm assuming) work, BTW.

Just something I sent him (that I found).


And I've seen this about 5 times...

"Yes, I'm a natural blue."

The one BIG mistake in this film is that the pelicans are the wrong sort for Australia. It's funny that the filmmakers went to great lengths to study the Great Barrier Reef and surrounding areas, hire a lot of well-known aussies to voice it, yet they completely ignored the fact we have DIFFERENT PELICANS to Americans!!!.

Also, just how many large whales would there be in such close proximity to Sydney? Most of the whales that even come close to land are located in the south of the country or the north (around Queensland).

Having said that though, it was a good film, not as funny as Monster Inc. but still enjoyable. COmplimented my double bill of that and "Kill Bill" brilliantly.

The one BIG mistake in this film is that the pelicans are the wrong sort for Australia. - Rodney

How do they differ?


Also, just how many large whales would there be in such close proximity to Sydney? Most of the whales that even come close to land are located in the south of the country or the north (around Queensland). - Rodney

Well, according to the film, there's at least one.

well obviously if the FILM says it's true....

Our pelicans have much bigger bills than the ones in the film, also they tend to be whiter than the American ones.

I'm sure there is a site with pictures somewhere.

well obviously if the FILM says it's true.... - Rodney

No... you said yourself that most of the whales that even come close to land are located in the south of the country or the north... That doesn't mean that there can't be ones on the west or (as in this movie) east of the continent.

Getting back to the relevant discussion...

The whale depicted in the film was, I believe, a humpback whale... the following are a few sites with information about humpback whales along Sydney's coast and some in Sydney Harbour:

Living Harbour

Planet Ark

Whales at Manly Beach

SurfWax - with a couple of articles on three humpbacks in the harbour just this month

Did someone delete our posts?

What, the ones that aren't there? ()

Yes, Luigi... the off-topic posts have been deleted.

Thank, Jake.

I meant "Thanks."

I don't recall making any off-topic posts. Rodney made a nit about the whale in the movie, and you and I responded by pointing out that by his wording, it was plausible. How was that off-topic?

It was the personal retorts and posts related to them that were off-topic.

I noticed an nit in continuency. Through out the film, Marlin, and Dory, could pop out their heads onto the surface of the water, and talk and have no trouble breathing for a while, until they have to go below the surface again. They even flop around a deck for awhile, without showing them having trouble breathing. Yet, when Nemo and Dory and the top fish of the net, trying to swim downward, surface, they imediately start breathing heavy. Didn't they have a set time, before they need air and start breathing heavy?

Also, when Dory and Marlin were first taken to the Shark's AA meeting, Dory mentioned that it was a party, that there were balloons, (The mines). The thing is, how would she, a fish, know about balloons? I mentioned this, and my young daughter said it was a good point.

Hmm, I dunno, maybe all those helium balloons that slip out of the grasp of children end up floating on the ocean surface for the fish to see? Of course, that still doesn't explain how a fish would know what balloons are for...

Then again, the movie never explains how Dory learned to read English, either. Maybe she was once a pet or something. Those fish at the dentist's aquarium picked up the finer points of dental procedure, so any fish that was once a pet apparently would have some knowledge of human things.

Or even how the fish speak, or how they can blink their eyes (since fish don't have eyelids), or make friends with predator animals.

It's a fantasy, guys. These things are an given part of the premise.

Luigi Novi wrote: Or even how the fish speak, or how they can blink their eyes (since fish don't have eyelids), or make friends with predator animals.

Well, I'm figuring that the fish speak understandingly to each other. I noticed that the humans don't react to them when they are speaking, so it must be fishspeak. I didn't notice the blinking eyes, then again, the dvd is my son's X-mas gift, so I have other chances to view it again, and as for the making friends with predatory animals, well, the shark AA meeting was to improve themselves, right? ;)

Ok, that paragraph showed I had waaaay too much time on my hands and too much idle thought. j

Duke Of Earl Grey wrote: Hmm, I dunno, maybe all those helium balloons that slip out of the grasp of children end up floating on the ocean surface for the fish to see? Of course, that still doesn't explain how a fish would know what balloons are for...

Then again, the movie never explains how Dory learned to read English, either. Maybe she was once a pet or something. Those fish at the dentist's aquarium picked up the finer points of dental procedure, so any fish that was once a pet apparently would have some knowledge of human things.

You know, I always wondered too, about Dory. This is probably screaming a "Finding Nemo 2: Finding Dory's past life!"

Well, I'm figuring that the fish speak understandingly to each other. I noticed that the humans don't react to them when they are speaking, so it must be fishspeak. - SlinkyJ

So the fish, birds, turtles, and crustaceans all speak the same language?

But perhaps the humans don't react to their speaking because they can't hear them through the water.

SlinkyJ: I didn't notice the blinking eyes...
Luigi Novi: They blink constantly throughout the film, but if you want something that might jog your memory without having to go review the film, remember that there are a few scenes in the film where the fish are unconscious, during all of which their eyes are completed closed:

When Marlin awakens after the barracuda attack kills his wife and kids.

When Marlin and Dory awaken from sleeping inside the P. Sherman's scuba goggles right after the scene in which Gill first appears to help Nemo escape from the suction tube in the fish tank.

When Marlin and Dory awaken on top of the turtles after the jellyfish attack.

When the shrimp awakens Nemo for the Hawaiian initiation ceremony.

When Nemo is trampled by the fishnet at the end of the film, and Marlin and Dory find him underneath it, partially conscious.

It's a fantasy, guys. These things are an given part of the premise.

True, but the mention of balloons is (probably) inconsistent with the world of the film, where fish don't tend to use human-type objects (or talk about them much without relation to humans).

Well... it's established that Dory can read... so maybe a book fell off a boat to the bottom of the ocean, and that's where she got her information.

In any case, there are lots of places where a fish might get that kind of information (and by fish, I mean animated fantasy fish).