Corrected entry: With more than 400 dead - if you count the eggs and "Coral" - this is the Disney movie with the highest body count.
Corrected entry: When Nemo is going through the plumbing pipe, he escapes through one of the air holes at the top of the pipe. But he would've been in the bottom portion of the pipe with the water, not on top with the air. Even if he did jump at one of the holes, there wouldn't have been any suction powerful enough to pull him through.
Corrected entry: At the end when those fish escaped the dentist office, where was the shrimp?
Correction: I heard this mistake elsewhere and I checked - the shrimp (Jacques) is there, just hidden behind some of the others, he is towards the left of the screen, I believe he is behind Bloat and Deb, but I'm not 100% sure.
Corrected entry: The divers who capture Nemo return to their boat, which displays the US diving flag (red and white). But on the Great Barrier Reef, dive boats show the international dive flag (blue and white). (00:15:20)
Correction: The traditional red & white diver-down flag is intended to protect divers themselves, while the blue & white alpha flag is intended to protect vessels from collision. Please see http://www.floridascubahound.com/dive_flag_laws.htm for further details.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Marlin and Dory are inside the whale's mouth, you should not be able to see anything at all since there would be no light source inside the whale.
Correction: What were they supposed to do, have it pitch black with the fish talking?
Corrected entry: In the scene where Nemo is going to try block the filter in the tank for the 2nd time, he picks up a whole mouthful of pebbles from the bottom of the tank, but when he surfaces, he only has one.
Correction: He drops one as he floats up, and the one that he does keep is about the size of two pebbles and is wide and oddly shaped. This could give the impression that it is more than one, but he just chose a much bigger pebble, knowing that a small one won't hold the fan.
Corrected entry: This error relates to the whale that gives Dory and Marlin a ride near the movie's end. A whale's spout is actually water vapor from its lungs. It's a common misconception that whales take water through their mouth and squirt it through their blowholes. While this may or may not be physically possible, it's not done on a regular basis at all - it would be akin to a human snorting water out his nose.
Corrected entry: After Dory drops the mask into the dark black abyss, Dory and Marlin swim vertically down to get it. When they see the speck of light, they are looking down at it and therefore should be swimming down to reach it. But when Dory and Marlin appear, they are swimming across the ocean bed to reach it. How did they reach the ocean bed and swim across to see it if they were swimming down and couldn't see anything in the first place?
Correction: Yes, they begin to swim down, but they could have seen the little light to the side of them and started swimming sideways to it.
Corrected entry: Near the beginning of the movie when Nemo goes on his first day of school, the teacher gives them a tour of the ocean. He tells all the fish to get on his back and they all do. But when the teacher starts moving and turning, the fish aren't holding on to him (there is a clear gap between the fish and the teacher). How, then, could they miraculously keep pace with the teacher.
Correction: The fish are swimming with Mr. Ray.
Corrected entry: When the mimicker fish talk to Dory, they tell her to ride on the EAC for about 3 weeks. At the same time, Nemo is told he only has 4 days before Darla comes. When Darla does come, Marlin and Dory have already exited the EAC and are already in the dentist's office at the same time Darla comes.
Correction: 3 leagues, not weeks. It sounds similar, especially because of the way the voice is muted.
Corrected entry: In the scene where the dentist's niece shows up, we see her tapping an aquarium that has Nemo, Gil, etc. in it in the waiting room. Then she goes into the operating room and the same fishtank is there.
Correction: That's right, it is the same fishtank. The tank is built into the wall between the waiting room and the dentist's operatory, so it's visible from both rooms.
Corrected entry: At the end of the movie when the fish are floating in the ocean waiting for the starfish, how come the bags they're in aren't sinking? Even if they did have air at the top why are they at the top of the bag where the air is?
Correction: When I add new fish to my tanks, I put the bags they're in into the tank, to acclimate them to the new water temp. These bags, which are just like the ones in the movie, float on the top of the tank, they do not sink.
Corrected entry: When Nemo goes into the filter for the second time to try and block it, the other aquarium fish panic and try to get him out, by using the long thin plant again. However, the only way for Nemo to reach this plant would be to block the filter, so would have no need of rescue. In other words it's impossible to escape the filter once he's in it without blocking it, so the other fishes' plan to get him out was a bit pointless.
Correction: The other fishes know that Nemo was successful in blocking the filter briefly last time, so it's reasonable for them to assume that he'll manage it again - getting the plant is to pull him out afterwards, assuming that it's all going to go wrong like it did last time. Besides, there's nothing else that they can do - it's better to do something, even if it might be pointless, than do nothing at all.
Corrected entry: When Marlin wakes Dory whilst she is sleeping on the diver's mask, they cause the sunken submarine to slip further down into the abyss. This makes a small cloud of dust around Marlin and Dory, but we see no falling mask below it. A few seconds later we see a shot of the mask falling, but you can only just see it before it falls into the darkness - a long way beneath the submarine. I don't think that a small mask could fall that far through water in a few seconds.
Correction: Actually, it can. I am very clumsy and used to go boating a lot, and when I dropped a mask, they would go really far, really fast.
Corrected entry: When Nemo swims out to the 'butt' it has its anchor down. However, after he is captured they leave without pulling the anchor up.
Correction: They show the anchor being pulled up as the divers are getting back into the boat.
Corrected entry: When Nigel drops Marlin and Dory back into the water you can see in the close ups of the fish that it's starting to rain. However in the shots of Nigel it isn't, and when they go under water you can't see any raindrops hitting the surface above them.
Correction: The shots of Nigel do indeed show the same tiny circular ripples in the water that are shown during the closeups of Dory and Marlin. The drops themselves are never seen and are obviously too small to be noticed while still in midair - only the circular ripples show where they're landing. As for why the ripples aren't visible when the fish are underwater, look how far beneath the surface they are in that shot and how agitated the surface itself is. It would be virtually impossible to notice the tiny ripples at that distance.
Corrected entry: In the scene where the turtles are migrating, it shows hundreds of turtles. But turtles are solitary migrators.
Correction: In the commentary the point is made that we don't know for sure if turtles are solitary migrators, and that the idea of them migrating together is pretty cool and looks good.
Corrected entry: When Nemo is stuck on the dentist tools, Gil goes to the top of Mount Wannahucalooge. Brother Bloat inflates and the mountain goes slanted. But Bloat deflates and the mountain is still slanted.
Correction: When you move something in a fish tank to an angle, it tends to shift the small rocks in the bottom and stay that way.
Corrected entry: The size difference between Dory and Marlin is far too small. A Clownfish is smaller than a Royal Blue Tang's tailfin.
Correction: The size difference is not always that great. Check out this picture (fifth from top): http://www.aquariumarts.com/reeffish.html.
Corrected entry: The address on the mask is on the inside when put on right. But when you look at it here it's on the outside. With no bend in the band when Dory reads it. (00:34:05)
Correction: In the scene where the mask is wrapped around the rock, the front of the mask - -the outside of the lenses, that is - -is against the rock, and the strap is doubled back on itself, though not twisted. Thus the address is on the outside of the band when Dory reads it. (In every other scene where the address is visible, either the address is on the inside or the strap is twisted.)
Correction: I disagree - take Mulan for example, with the Hun army (count in thousands), most of the Chinese army, the villagers (they found no survivors), the firework attendants. Other good candidates would be "Atlantis: the lost empire" (2001) where an entire city with thousands of people are drowned, and "Dinosaur" (2000) where a meteorite hits, causing climate change and killing millions of dinosaurs (off-screen, admittedly).