{"id":966,"date":"2008-08-24T18:45:53","date_gmt":"2008-08-24T22:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/?p=966"},"modified":"2022-10-14T16:56:47","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T20:56:47","slug":"finding-nemo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/finding-nemo\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Stanton’s Finding Nemo is childlike but not childish"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Andrew Stanton’s Finding Nemo<\/em> immediately preceded Pixar’s slightly more sophisticated collaborations with director Brad Bird, The Incredibles<\/a><\/em> and Ratatouille<\/em>. But despite being one of Pixar’s more overtly kid-oriented films, Andrew Stanton’s Finding Nemo<\/em> is rife with anxiety and death. In the tradition of its spiritual ancestor Bambi<\/em>, which also famously features a mother’s arbitrary murder in its opening moments, Finding Nemo<\/em> is childlike without being childish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If I was stranded in a dentist’s office aquarium, and I could take only one of Stanton’s Pixar movies with me, I’m afraid I wouldn’t select Finding Nemo. I found his follow-up WALL-E<\/em><\/a> to be a more sophisticated film that relies less on dialog and celebrity personae.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andrew Stanton’s Finding Nemo immediately preceded Pixar’s slightly more sophisticated collaborations with director Brad Bird, The Incredibles and Ratatouille. But despite being one of Pixar’s more overtly kid-oriented films, Andrew Stanton’s Finding Nemo is rife with anxiety and death. In the tradition of its spiritual ancestor Bambi, which also famously features a mother’s arbitrary murder […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,2],"tags":[1035,32,1034,135],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-4-stars","category-movies","tag-andrew-stanton","tag-animation","tag-finding-nemo","tag-pixar"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/finding-nemo-feature.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa9lhB-fA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":927,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wall-e\/","url_meta":{"origin":966,"position":0},"title":"Think Different: WALL-E","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"July 24, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"With the delightful WALL-E, Pixar continues its as-yet unbroken winning streak of instant-classic films for all ages. 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