Finding Nemo is a beautiful film, filled with moments of sheer hilarity: Dory speaking whale, Bruce the non-eating-fish shark, riding the wave with cute little Squirt, “duuuuuude,” what could be better? But it is also filled with heart wrenching moments, the clearest example being Marlin’s sheer determination to find his son, to ultimately finding Nemo apparently dead, playing on the worst fear of so many parents.
Why, may you ask, has Finding Nemo just scraped into the top ten? It must be remembered that it is number ten out of only thirteen films to date, which are all of an extremely high standard (with the possible exception of Cars 2). They have so many more elements that make them Pixar perfect. But ultimately, the Pixar films listed do not simply fall into the box of a ‘children’s animation’. So, what are my top ten Pixar films? It was a tough list to arrange, I will not lie. They create a fantasy world that you could imagine yourself in, and plays on your fears, your hopes and dreams, which are manifest in the characters. Pixar has an underlying darkness to it, however, and that is what adds a sense of reality to their films, despite the fact you would never find yourself as a rat in a sewer in France. Now, at nineteen years old, I still shake like a leaf when Stinky Pete almost slices Woody in half, when Hopper steps on Flik, about to squish him in the rain, when the diver steals Nemo away from the reef – ooh, there are just too many moments to note! The wonderful thing about Pixar is that it makes you feel so many emotions, and it never disappoints. Looking back now, I think, wow Pixar, success! Yet, I had a profound love for Sulley and Wazowski never ceased to make me giggle. I thought Randal was the scariest monster in the world, and that Bigfoot would eat me.
in the cinema when I was eight years old, and it terrified the life out of me.
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