Charles Stanton Ogle

The recent sequel to “Finding Nemo”, “Finding Dory”, which was released in 2016, takes the Disney Pixar classic from a new perspective as Dory searches for her parents. Dory is a blue tang fish with a memory that lasts for a brief ten seconds at a time and remembers nothing outside of the current ten seconds. Except in this movie, Dory remembers something, she has a memory of her parents, which shocks Nemo, Marlin, and all of Dory’s friends, ultimately inspiring Dory to go on a quest in search…

Finding Nemo is about the adventure of a clownfish named Nemo. Before Nemo was born, his parents lived in an anemone deep in the ocean. Their names were Marlin and Coral, and they had a very fun and happy life. First, they had many fish eggs that they were keeping safe in their reef. One day, a barracuda came and attacked them. Then the beast managed to take the mom and all the baby fish except for one. His name was Nemo. It was difficult for Marlin, the father clownfish, to take care of Nemo…

Introduction The film I’m reviewing is “Finding Nemo”. This movie is about the journey of an overprotective father named Marlin trying to rescue the last remaining child named Nemo, who has been taken from his home by divers to Sydney to become pet for the niece of a dentist, who us known to kill fishes accidentally. Throughout, the movie, the main characters had to go through many problems, like the fact that Marlin has to be overprotective of Nemo due to the past when he lost his wife, and he…

Pixar’s “Finding Nemo” is a visually stunning underwater adventure that follows comedic and eventful journeys of three fish. A father, Marlin, (Albert Brooks) and his son Nemo(Alexander Gould)- who become separated in the Great Barrier Reef. Along with Dory (Ellen Degeneres) a blue tang fish with severe memory loss, Bruce (Barry Humphries) a great white shark whose personality changes when his instincts set in, and many others impact the movie. The movie opens like all Pixar films with small…

Finding Nemo is a children’s movie, which tells of a clown fish named Marlin, who is a widower, and only has one son left after a predator attack. Nemo, the son of Marlin, went to school on the first day and ventured out into the open sea, despite the constant concerns from his dad not to. Nemo was then abducted by a diver and taken to a dentist office onshore in Sydney to live in a fish tank with the “tank gang.” Marlin then set out on an adventure to find and save his son, Nemo. On the way,…

Finding Nemo is a movie that begins with a family of fish. The mother and almost all of her eggs are attacked. The mother is killed along with all of the eggs, except one. The final egg left is named Nemo, and is raised solely by his father, Marlin. In the attack, Nemo was injured and now has one fin that is smaller than the other. He does not let his fin define him and calls it his “lucky” fin. After seeing his family killed, Marlin is very over protective of Nemo and is very nervous to let him…

Nemo’s friends, Dory, that’s in need of “finding” - as one of the summer’s (and year’s) most highly anticipated movies brings back everyone’s favorite sea dwellers... In Disney’s animated sequel/spin-off, Finding Dory, written and directed by Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo, Wall-E), Ellen DeGeneres reprises her role as the voice of Dory, a Pacific regal blue tang that suffers from short term memory loss.…

Besides providing immense entertainment for both kids and adults alike, certain children’s movies, such as Disney Pixar’s A Bug’s Life, explore deep sociological concepts and structures found in our society. The movie successfully and simultaneously shows both structural functionalism and conflict theory - despite their stark differences - in the interactions between the ants and grasshoppers. Throughout the film, there are also instances that show the theories of false consciousness, collective…

In Doris Lessing’s short story, “Through the Tunnel”, the Lessing teaches the reader about setting and achieving them. “Through the Tunnel” tells the story of a young English boy named Jerry whose mother allows him to go explore the bay. He meets a group of local boys and ends up swimming them. While swimming with the boys, Jerry discovers that the boys are swimming through an underwater tunnel. Eventually, the boys go off somewhere else and leave Jerry alone. Upset and lonely, Jerry swims…

Liminal Shores, Agential Oceans After being reminded of Hayao Miyazaki’s film Ponyo in Mel Y. Chen’s Animacies, I became interested in the liminal or transitional properties of the seashore in Ponyo and A Tale for the Time Being. At the beginning of Ponyo, a young boy named Sōsuke finds the titular character as a fish trapped in a glass jar near the seashore. He breaks her free, slightly cutting himself, and Ponyo licks his cut and begins her transmogrification from fish into chicken, into…