The Reel Rejects - FINDING NEMO (2003) IS BEAUTIFUL!! MOVIE REVIEW!!

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Starting point is 00:00:26 Under the sea The weird thing. It's like, I got switched and snotch is dripping in my mouth right now. Prepper, thanks for it down these highlights. I know Disney's been a pain in the buttocks. But you guys have been consistently killing it and getting these videos public in spite of whatever obstacles are happening.

Starting point is 00:00:48 So thank you, team, for constantly kicking butt. And also for all the stuff we've been branching out on and even kicking ass in those ways, too. ladies and gentlemen we just watched finding nemo crowned him if you want to watch your reaction that's of course turn the main channel and we got a clips and shorts channel we're going to start uploading some of our just the review part as well Aaron go to you first time rewatching in a long time wow I haven't seen this movie in 22 years insane what you think I thought it was great I think it's one of those movies that

Starting point is 00:01:27 that, you know, I think we talked about this a little bit before we started, where seeing something as a kid or seeing something when you're younger hits differently when you watch it at a different point in your life. And I feel like this is a perfect example of one of those types of movies. I think that from, you know, watching it as an adult, you definitely resonate with those lessons of wanting to be responsible, wanted to take care of, you know, the people that you love, but maybe falling short in that and then learning to trust that, you know, the people around you are capable of being independent

Starting point is 00:02:06 and are capable of following their own path. And it seems that, you know, I like that we got to see Marlon and Nemo go on these two journeys, one about, you know, finally coming into and taking ownership and taking control. In Marlon's journey, it's about relinquishing control and trusting the people around him. I think that was very cool. Coupled with all the supporting characters, that Dory was hilarious and delightful, and then all the people we met along the way,

Starting point is 00:02:36 like Bruce and Crush, and then Crush's little kid squirt. Plus all the visuals as well were just really gorgeous. I really, really liked this movie. I think that it did a good job of having great tension and great stakes and showing how scary the ocean can be, but also how scary humans can be, both in the ocean and just on land and how we don't really understand what it's like to be so small and so delicate.

Starting point is 00:03:05 I thought that was great. And the way that they were able to find these correlations between the way we connect as humans versus the way fish connect with one another, even if it's not totally accurate, you know, the way they're able to personify these fish was very believable. allowed us to really connect with them and their plights but yeah that's my uh my short little review before we go into the conversational part of it but gregg yeah how you feeling what's you thinking i think this is a a movie that has earned its right at being a classic classic family film and yeah i kind of only expected to laugh and i didn't expect to

Starting point is 00:03:53 the array of emotions something was telling me when we were watching like i think the mom dies but i didn't know like what it went when it was starting but anyway it's not really about that i'll just go with the experience that we had the the the experience that uh i have is very it is a very specific point in my life um because i i want to say it was around last year when i when my Olivia and my wife and I will watch a documentary and she's already been like well acquainted and a bit of vegetarian with the all the stuff with the like I learned so much about if it's not how to do with film I'm gonna learn about it from her in some way and she so we were watching stuff and it really did like change me I we went I knew it was because we were pescatarian and then the next day

Starting point is 00:04:42 we were at Whole Foods and we were like yeah let's throw some salmon in our um the like the salad bowl and then we had one piece each and I was like sick and like okay looks like I'm giving a fish now because clearly it really affected me learning about what how like you hear it as like a talking point constantly that the environment is being destroyed and the reefs are being destroyed and what are we doing to the ocean but you kind of just hear that a lot unless you really do your research you mind you won't really understand what any of that really means or how it's affecting the rest of the world and affecting earth and our livelihood and yada yada yada and the thing that really hit me was i i didn't really consider like ocean life to be things that were like uh of conscience

Starting point is 00:05:42 the way how you would find animals to be of uh conscience and it's almost through the point where you don't look at them as sentient in a way like oh they're mindless and then come to find out like oh wait no they're all like animal like any other animal they're they got brains they think they feel and everything and so to what being that person today and then watching finding emo which is from the perspective of the ocean life from the perspective of humans tampering with ocean life right down to like you know i liked having the uh what were those called the uh the things that exploded when there were the sharks when there were the sharks that the man the sea mines the sea mines and and then of course like humans coming in and taking away and like the scooping up

Starting point is 00:06:35 of the fish and like the the horrors that they go through really stuck would be on this like i really felt the danger and it got me curious about the filmmaking intent you know we are at this time in the 2020s where anything that is anything with a slight remote message is considered woke in Hollywood's pushing their messages and uh this came out like 22 years ago and this is a super environmentally aware movie you know like literally every time the fisher captured it's a horror show of what you're doing to these four souls who are just living their lives and try to get from A to B. And the next thing you know, they're being abducted to be killed most likely. Uh, so it really, uh, hit me on that note. And I know vast majority people who watch this

Starting point is 00:07:29 movie, that's not really good, like they can appreciate it. They can in retro, they can see it and they get it from the point of view. But I know it won't probably move them to something. And granted, Maddie Nemo 22 years ago, didn't move me at all in that way. So to see it now, I really did feel moved by the messaging of it and the awareness and it further solidified me as a

Starting point is 00:07:53 as the individual I am as a vegetarian and made me go I am better than most people because I am superior I am morally superior at all crossroads in life and every joke is ingrained in truth

Starting point is 00:08:09 so I really believe this I am the best of the best you're here to shame you that's how you move people in a direction is really showing how righteous you are no no no uh i i get it like so yeah and then as a movie it's a good movie in the the the you know like the you know like

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Starting point is 00:12:14 probably best that i do say endorsement compensation provides incentive to positively promote acorns tier one compensation provided investing involves risk acorns al lcccccicic registered investment advisor view important disclosure is acorns dot com slash redex thank you again acorns i remember yeah fragments of scene like the do you do you do you and then the turtle and i had a vague image of a fish with a scar on it but i didn't know his wound the foe and i didn't know what role he played in the movie yeah yeah but watching it in context it all it's all really done also everyone was really well cast in the movie as well I'm not sure

Starting point is 00:12:44 who played a marlin in the movie Albert Brooks Albert Brooks played oh okay and Helen DeGeneres obviously is Dory but yeah I think the the chemistry on the movie was really strong as well and like I'm curious to your

Starting point is 00:13:00 point or your question if they did actually kind of record together because it sounds like it I mean first off the Dory character the rules are you know all over the place with the memory but it's kind of a hard character to sell people on to make because you have to be endeared to this character and find the heart in it or else you get trapped in the corner of this one joke of her forgetting and that's all it

Starting point is 00:13:29 could have been and it could have been a very one-dimensional character and they managed to find the sadness in her the loss in her the one-year-wells. one that yearns for family and connection in a way that sells you on the journey and the way they've illustrated it between the companionship between her and marlin and how marlin is the fish who'll never forgets what happened and then dory the fish who forgets everything that happens and watching the two different uh attitudes of life that they both live one a lot more free-spirited and and willing to explore and just keep swim go with the flow and marlin who is the complete antithesis to that and we were saying early on

Starting point is 00:14:16 when watching it of how if they didn't have the prologue of what happened with nemo and the mom and everything then marlin would have been a very frustrating character because even with that knowledge he still becomes frustrating at times of how of how much of a curmudgeon and how much of a pessimistic individual he is it becomes like a little irating but you but it constantly brings you back to i understand though i understand i understand and it never it never veered to where he's unlikable even if they teetered with that line for me but then they would have these moments of really showing his heart through the actions like when he saves dory and i love the parallel of how both nemo and marlin are lost into very very

Starting point is 00:15:05 different types of dangerous situations and they're both growing into their own people with a lot more confidence, assurance, assurance, strength and willing to take chances on themselves and trust in each other like these two individual experiences makes their father and son dynamic make even better now and stronger. And so, like, it is that magic of this is the worst thing that could have happened to them that turned into the best thing that could have happened for them, you know? Yeah. It's beautiful.

Starting point is 00:15:45 Yeah. It's interesting that, you know, that event that happened on the prologue, both in a way defined both of them because, obviously, he has his little flipper, you know, because he was injured as a little baby or is an egg and that really defined his emotional journey from marlin because he had 400 kids and now he has this one kid and no wife that he has to to look after and it was this not i want to say it's like he's juxt opposed but he wants to from the beginning he wants to be uh feel like he's good enough wants to feel like he's a capable parent a capable partner but he also has all this fear and wants to be a good dad but the way he goes about being a

Starting point is 00:16:32 parent he not shames his kid but he tells his kid that constant that is not capable that he can't do it that's his way of trying to protect his kid from the danger selfishly so he doesn't experience any more loss and once his worst fears comes true he has to then go off and be the courageous person in the face of all that fear to then save his son but in that has to learn through dory to trust that he can to trust that he's not the only person that is capable of solving a problem he has to learn to trust dory so he can then trust his son yeah which is great i loved it i think that's a great lesson i hope parents took away from this movie that you know you got trust your kids a little bit more you know trust and also crush you know him being the total

Starting point is 00:17:21 opposite the antithesis of someone like marlin learning that you got to let your kids kind of go off on their own so they can learn their own lessons because otherwise they're not going to grow and they're going to learn to be super dependent on you so that in the self was awesome i wish crush was a little movie a little bit more i thought he was a great addition but he served his narrative purpose and he's a fun supporting character you know sometimes less is more but i personally enjoyed having him there while he was there but yeah hopefully in the next one's a little bit more in there yeah i thought it was all great all gimmicks all around i thought were great even the whole like alcoholics anonymous of the fish yeah them learning to abstain of becoming vegetarian of sharks yeah becoming like vegetarians or

Starting point is 00:18:06 something yeah in that scene was was really thrilling you know the and i think this movie does a great job of not having action for action stake but action that serves our characters and moves our story really as well yeah No, you learn more, you learn about Marlon, you learn about Dory in those scenes, how they, like, for example, the first thing that comes in my mind is the jellyfish scene. You know, the reason they got into that situation in the first place was because Marlon didn't trust Dory. And then in the face of that puts Marlon in the situation where he has to go and then be the caretaker of Dory, this person, and those inconvenience to him throughout this entire journey. And then from there, they get saved, and that puts him in the position to learn that it's okay to, to trust other people yeah you know his it was almost uh it's karmic in that way yeah but then

Starting point is 00:18:53 the universe or whatever taught him that like no you need to trust the people around you because it's going to one help them but help you kind of ease into you know just being more calm yeah yeah carmocks a good word for it i think there is like that i like movies i know how to find that tone of some type of larger than life destiny wonder to it and and i think they this movie is a great example of doing that and i loved how they captured specifically when you're just on the adventure with marlin and dory they're constantly being framed with like so much ocean around them and how tiny they are yeah there's rarely like close-ups but whenever they're around you know whether it be the sharks or the

Starting point is 00:19:43 jellyfish or the turtles um or in the whale's mouth everything is so large and vast and takes up so much of the screen really driving home how tiny they are and and how vulnerable they are and it really um allows you to connect with them as a human being as a speck on this planet and i think the way they managed to like tie everything together was pretty cool you know like with all the birds at the end and how that actually came into play even the fine mind mind that that coming into play and then they would show you the other animals that were mentioned um even to have the sharks come back to the school at the end and i think they did a great job too on like the physical danger was constant yeah and and it just

Starting point is 00:20:38 kept getting worse and worse and it you would get scary you know like when you're really in their perspective of like the little girl's shaking the the the nemo bag or or him going to be in the trash like they they sell you on it because even there they mess with the scale of things of watching how much larger everything is or like how massive this fan looks to the perspective of the fish you know um it only stuff that an animated movie could pull off and in the the one thing that perhaps was a little lackluster for me is in the tank of fish uh i liked william defoe I don't know I kind of didn't really

Starting point is 00:21:21 give a shit about the other fish in the tank yeah they were like kind of amusing but everything was very like kind of amusing to me and I get it that is a G rated anime movie so that stuff is for like the children and everything and it's meant to be passively cute and they're filling in but for a movie that surprises you with like a depth and emotion and danger

Starting point is 00:21:45 it is the one part of the movie where it was like an ensemble of one dimensional characters that i don't really feel like are super purposeful to a lot of this um yeah because you you get the ocean stuff and each one of those parts kind of add to either dory or marlin or both in the progression of them as characters but i feel like the gill guy was the only one that really added to marlin showed that he is more capable but yeah Yeah, there was their... Gil and Nemo, yeah. Yeah, sorry, man, yeah.

Starting point is 00:22:19 But, yeah, maybe a little bit more seeing how those characters in domesticated life, so to speak, interact with being an aquatic creature as opposed to things in a wild. Maybe that juxtosition could have been a little stronger, but yeah, they didn't bother me too much, but yeah, I don't think they were super consequential

Starting point is 00:22:42 other than giving us, you know, something to be entertained on the land. Yeah, yeah. Damn. Yeah. I love that, man. That's great. It's a beloved film beyond it being plastered everywhere at Disneyland and California Adventures.

Starting point is 00:22:57 I understand how it's the sequel. They have a sequel, Finding Dory. What's going on there? Is it good? He doesn't want to watch it? Let us know in the comments below. Legit don't know what the plot of that is. I assume they're going to find her.

Starting point is 00:23:13 She is lost. i don't know but yeah will the movie be as interesting if it's the marlin and in emo finding dory do people like i feel like i reviewed it um really i don't know we're at that at that point of the chat we watch a lot of movies yeah uh no all right baby yeah let's find out let's find out all right guys we'll leave a like on this video thanks to get proper again for any on these highlights be sure subscribe and click that bell and we will uh catch you all soon rejagnation bye This is...

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