Finding Nemo trivia

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Finding Nemo (2003) - 30 trivia entries

Directed by Andrew Stanton, starring Albert Brooks, Alexander Gould, Allison Janney, Andrew Stanton, Austin Pendleton, Barry Humphries, Brad Garrett, Elizabeth Perkins, Ellen DeGeneres, Eric Bana, Geoffrey Rush, John Ratzenberger, Stephen Root, Willem Dafoe

In early stages of production, a slightly more dramatic approach was to be taken on the film, and to that end William H. Macy was hired as the voice of Marlin the clownfish. However, after a couple of weeks of recording sessions, the dramatic approach was scrapped, and William H. Macy was replaced by Albert Brooks, who plays Marlin in the film.

John Ratzenberger, who does the voices of the school of fish - who do the impressions for Dory, has done a voice in every Disney-Pixar movie. He has done Hamm in both Toy Stories, P.T. Flea in A Bug's Life, the Yeti in Monsters Inc, and Underminer in The Incredibles.

There's a scene where Crush the turtle is describing how they found Marlin and Dory. Well, that scene looks very similar to one in The Little Mermaid where Flounder is describing how he and Ariel escape from the shark attack in the ship.

Pearl, the octopus, looks remarkably like Boo from Monster's Inc.

When the kids are at the "drop-off," the shot looks a lot like the shot from "A Bug's Life" (1998) when Dot looks over the edge.

This is mainly for Aussies: Rove McManus, a popular Australian television personality, is the voice of one of the crabs Dory and Nemo meet (the one Dory threatens with the seagulls).

A possible nod to Nick Park/Aardman - The dentist's address is on Wallaby Way and Wallace & Grommit live on West Wallaby Street.

Many of the crew did voice cameos in the movie. Mr Ray the schoolteacher was co-writer Bob Peterson. Joe Ranft, who did various jobs on many Disney and Pixar movies was Jacques the French cleaning shrimp, and also played Wheezy in Toy Story 2. Seems they bagged all the best parts for themselves.

Look closely at the toy treasure box in the dentist's office, if you look inside, you can see the head of 'Little Mikey', the beloved doll of Mike Wazowski from the previous Pixar film, Monsters Inc.

As Dory and Marlin are blasted out of the whale's blowhole, you can see Mike Wazowski, the little green, one eyed monster from Disney's previous film, Monsters Inc, swimming amongst the bubbles.