Finding Nemo is a movie produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released in 2003. It adds an unexpected beauty, a use of color and form that makes it one of those rare movies where I wanted to sit in the front row and let the images wash out to the edges of my field of vision.

The movie takes place almost entirely under the sea, in the world of colorful tropical fish–the flora and fauna of a shallow warm-water shelf. The use of color, form and movement make the film a delight even apart from its story. There is a story, though, one of those Pixar inventions that involves kids on the action level while adults are amused because of the satire and human (or fishy) comedy.

The movie involves the adventures of little Nemo, a clown fish born with an undersized fin and an oversized curiosity. His father, Marlin, worries obsessively over him, because Nemo is all he has left: Nemo’s mother and all of her other eggs were lost to barracudas.

When Nemo goes off on his first day of school, Marlin warns him to stay with the class and avoid the dangers of the drop-off to deep water, but Nemo forgets, and ends up as a captive in the salt-water aquarium of a dentist in Sydney. Marlin swims off bravely to find his missing boy, aided by Dory, a blue tang with enormous eyes who he meets along the way.

Dory, the regal blue tang, gets separated from her parents, Jenny and Charlie, as a child. As she grows up, she gradually forgets them due to her short-term memory loss. She eventually meets and joins the clownfish Marlin, looking for his son, Nemo.

There are many messages skillfully addressed in this movie. The three morals that are very important are ‘the importance of teamwork’, ‘your differences do not define you’, and ‘your parents will never give up on you’.

The overarching theme in Finding Nemo is trust. Marlin must learn to trust his son. It is his misplaced trust in his son that leads to the adventure. Marlin learns to trust others throughout his journey, especially when he is in the belly of the whale with Dory.

Overall Finding Nemo was a movie that showed me the importance of the people that we love and even if it was designed for little kids, it was one of the most entertaining movies I have ever seen.