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Finding Nemo (2003) - 33 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 (add more)

Genres: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family

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In the waiting room of the dentist office, you can see a Buzz Lightyear action figure lying on the floor.

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While the credits are rolling you see most of the characters swim onscreen. Stay long enough and you'll see Mike from Monster's Inc. swim across with a scuba mask and fins.

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The 3 tiki heads in the fish tank are actually some of Finding Nemo's animators and directors. (Explained on Disk 1 of the DVD.)

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In the first scene the tank has become dirty, you can see the dentist outside talking to a kid in the dentist chair, he says to the kid, 'Little David Reynolds...', which is the name of one of those who have done the screenplay of the film. The name appears in the ending credits before the Cast.

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Stay past the credits and you will see the vicious Angler fish get eaten by the tiny little fish that ran away from the shark meeting.

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When they show the kid waiting in the waiting room he is reading a comic. The person on the cover is Mr. Incredible, who is from the Disney/Pixar movie The Incredibles.

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If you look closely when Nigel hits the dentist's window, you can see Boo's mobile from Monsters, Inc. attached to the dentist's ceiling.

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The Mermaid from the short film "Knick Knack" is seen inside the fish tank.

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Great White shark in the rehab group is named Bruce, the same name Steven Spielberg called the mechanical shark in Jaws. Pixar is known for crediting great filmmakers from the past, in their movies.

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This is just an interesting anecdote: In an Australian newspaper, some poor irate viewer of 'Finding Nemo' wrote a long and indignant letter abusing the creators of this movie for using AMERICAN pelicans rather than AUSTRALIAN pelicans (noticeable only for the fact that Aussie pelicans don't have brown feathers and Nigel does). This anonymous person was 'disappointed that the creators couldn't even make the effort to use native Australian fauna'. The editor of the paper replied to the letter thusly: 'Thank you for your heartfelt contribution. We also noticed a glaring mistake in 'Finding Nemo': Fish can't talk.' However, this is in no way meant to offend the person who has already pointed out this mistake on this site.

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The voice of Crush, the sea turtle dude, is Andrew Stanton, the writer and director.

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If you look closely when they show the baggie go out the window during Gill's escape plan you can see the Pizza Planet Truck drive by. The second car after the pizza planet truck is from the movie "Cars" which is out in 2006.

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When we see the close up of the whale's head while he is blowing bubbles you can see they spell the word SEX or SFX depending how you look at it. Very similar to what they did in The Lion King.

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Random bit of trivia: In the Latin language, nemo means "No name".

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Until June 2004, it was both the highest-grossing animated and CGI-animated film in North American history before "Shrek 2" broke these records.

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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.

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A tip of the hat (or two) is given to the first Disney underwater flick, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. The title character Nemo was the name of the captain from 'Leagues'. The song 'Whale of a Tale' was sung in both movies.

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It has recently been mentioned that Finding Nemo and Wallace and Gromitt have something in common. Well, there's another thing: if you look closely at the seagulls, they look a lot like the penguin from the Wallace and Gromitt episode, "The Wrong Trousers".

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When all the fish are telling Marlin's story through out the entire ocean one of the fish says "Golly, thats amazing". The fish's voice sounds a lot like the famous Disney character Mickey Mouse.

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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.

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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 Toy Story and Toy Story 2, P.T. Flea in A Bug's Life, the Yeti in Monsters, Inc., and Underminer in The Incredibles.

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The number "A113" has appeared in every Pixar film. In this film, it is the model number on the camera used by the scuba diver who takes Nemo.

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

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In the scene where Dory tries to read the name on the diving mask, she first reads "P. Shirley" before reading correctly "P. Sherman". Peter Shirley is a famous computer graphics researcher, who wrote several books on the topic.

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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.

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One of the boats in Sydney Harbor is named "For the Birds;" a Pixar short. Also, other boats in the harbor are named after the people who helped make the film.

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Surprisingly, Dory's short-term memory loss is one of the most scientifically realistic portrayals of human amnesia on film.

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The "Hidden Mickey" appears in the bubbles near Gil, when Nemo is stuck in the filter.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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Pearl, the octopus, looks remarkably like Boo from Monsters Inc.

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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.

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